Just a small update...

Not much has been happening, really. I'm leaving for Kyoto tomorrow (I have to get up at 5 am), and then a few days later I'll be leaving for Korea.

A few days ago, I went out with a friend to Shibuya. We went to this Mexican restaurant, where they had all these tacky decorations and yodley bull-riding music, and where all the waitresses were dressed in cowboy gitup. They still did the obnoxious “irashaimasssseeeeeee” though. The food was tiny and expensive, but that’s nothing new. The burrito I got was about half the size of a small American one, and was 12 dollars! It was still yummy though, and I know where to go now if I’m craving a burrito in a dry spell. At one point, the waitress came over and was re-filling our water glasses, and she accidentally knocked over like a whole water pitcher onto my lap. My friend told me that my facial expression didn’t change at all, and after about 2 seconds of water pouring onto my lap, I just kind of looked down at it passively. Great to know I would be so fast and ninja-like if some danger were actually to befall me. But no, I just waited until the whole thing had emptied onto my pants. The waitress started hyperventilating and running to get me towels and napkins, and apologizing profusely. At times she would stop and just turn to me and look me in the eye and be like “GOMENNASAI!!!” It was kind of funny having this Japanese girl in this ridiculous cowboy hat and outfit looking so tortured, and apologizing to me profusely. She looked so distressed, in fact, that my friend and I decided that if we hadn’t properly assured her, she would have commited seppuku in the bathroom out of shame. Again, the cowboy outfit makes that scene a little humorous. I actually ended up feeling bad for HER. But then she didn’t even give us a discount, so I didn’t feel so bad.

Then yesterday, I met up with another friend in Roppongi, where we saw a giant fire-breathing robot baby. It was really creepy, actually. I still don't know what it was doing there.