Like Drugs

So look at that.
Two consecutive days in a row.
Not bad eh?
Mostly this is just because I am in class.
And I'm bored.
Maybe I should pay attention instead of blogging.
Oh well.
So something I forgot to mention.
I have a job/internship now.
I got it a while ago.
I work for the Mental Health Association.
I do respite work with kids.
I love the job.
However, for my first kid, they gave me one of their most severe cases.
So I'll just leave it at that.
I also started playing Bioshock Infinite.
It's pretty fun.

So people can actually browse through blogs.
Randomly I mean.
And I wonder why people read random people's blogs.
Maybe they find their content interesting.
But would anyone enjoy reading mine?
It's pretty boring.
I mostly keep this for nostalgia's sake.
So one day I can go back and reread them.
But if anyone actually enjoyed reading this.
I'd imagine their life is so full of abnormality that reading a blog of some random college student complaining would be getting a dose of normality that they enjoy.
It's unlikely though.

I find myself in a bad mood more and more frequently.
I'll sometimes just mutter "I hate everyone" to myself.
I don't mean it of course.
But it's just one of those moods where I hate everyone and everything.
I should do something about it.
Like drugs.

Choo Choo

So here I am again.
It's been quite some time.
I think my last post was in June 2013.
Like I said in the beginning of this thing, I'm bad at keeping blogs.
Not too much has happened since them.
Although I probably should have kept up to date when I was in Taiwan.
I went to Taiwan right after Japan.
I think I mentioned that before.
Taiwan was a lot of fun.
Made more friends.
Friends that I'll probably never see again.
I hate making new friends.
Well I guess that's not entirely true.
I saw two of them in person since my internship in Taiwan.
Although I wish I made closer friends.
I hate living so far away from everyone.
I live far away from everyone at Wells too.
Honestly, probably none of them are ever going to make the effort to see me in Kansas.
Not trying to sound pathetic, just being realistic.
After I graduate, the following few years in which we are still close they will be busy.
Because they are busy they will be unable to visit me due to lack of time/funds.
By the time they have the funds and time to visit me, we will already have drifted apart.
I guess I could make more of an effort to keep in touch with them.
I'm generally really bad at that.
I mean, just look at my blog updating skills.
So in the ends, it would be my fault.
I'm just too lazy.

I'm currently in my last semester of college.
It's not going too well.
Don't want to date Eileen but I can't get rid of her.
Rather too lazy to get rid of her.
I've told her I don't really want to date.
She sticks around regardless.
She's been gone for a week plus in addition to spring-break.
Honestly, she probably went to go see her ex-boyfriend.
Although she says she's been "sick".
So sick that she couldn't be bothered to pick up her phone to send me a message.
Oh yeah, she would go for several days without a word to me.
I'm not the type of guy that expects his S.O. to message him all the time.
But not a single message to why you're not back at school for a several days is a bit much.
Also my friends here at Wells are meh.
I'm sure they are great.
But I feel that I am never a high priority in their lives.
Ironic, when I'm single and want a GF, my friends seem to care more about me but a woman won't.
Now I'm technically not single (although I consider myself to be) and want to be single and it's the other way around.
I'm so hungry.
Choo Choo, all abored the pity train.

I feel like I will be embarrassed if anyone reads this.
But hopefully the only people who read this and have an opinion that affects me are people who won't judge.
Or I could be wrong.
Seriously, friends suck.
If you're my friend and you're reading this, you suck.
Just kidding.
If you suck you probably wouldn't be reading this.

Also this summer I hope I can revive the activity on this blog.
Activity meaning I hope I will be more active on it this summer.
I am going to China.
The People's Republic of China to be more specific.
Going to teach English in Zhuhai.
With Michael Khalif.
Hilarious.
He's the kid I went to high school with.
Russian, Jewish, heavily associated with drugs.
His family has a reputation in our area among the local police.
He's in China teaching English.
Lol.
But I am looking forward to it.
He hooked me up with a sweet teaching gig.
I'll be teaching for money.
A decent bit too.
So I am quite excited.
I guess I have been in a depressed state as of late.
But as soon as I graduate and head to China, my life will hopefully get better.

That's enough for now.
Hope my next post will be in the near future.

Leaving Japan

Sigh,
I have to leave Japan right now.
I am in the airport.
While it feels like I have been here for a long time it also feels like I just got here.
Does that make sense?
It's like I feel like I've lived here for a while now.
And things I did my first week seem like such a long time ago.
But right now I feel like I just got here and I'm leaving too soon.
I made a lot of new friends.
Met up with a lot of old friends.
I will miss all of them.
I will never get to see Ayumi, Amy, or Terue like I used to anymore...
Before at Wells, I could just go to their room if I was bored.
Maybe harass Terue a little.
Bother Amy and Ayumi for homework help.
But not anymore.
They are staying in Japan.
And they won't be at Wells anymore.
It's just now really hitting me that I'm leaving.
Wow.
This feeling sucks.
I am getting depressed.
I shouldn't though.
Taiwan is going to be great.
Ugh, I'm going to have to make new friends.
Normally I love making new friends.
But then I'm going to have to say goodbye to them and feel shitty again.
Moral of the story: don't make friends.

But anyway, yeah Japan was great.

I'll post pictures later.

When I have better internet.

I have a fuck ton of photos to upload.

But hopefully I can get over this depression.

I'll get over it in a like 2 days.

In other news, I haven't heard from Eileen in a while.

I miss her.

Great more depression.

Whatever.

I need alcohol.

It is a solution. 

Ahhh.

Why do we even have emotions.

We should all just be robots.

Lazy

Okay
So I haven't blogged in a couple of days.
It's mostly because I don't want to upload pictures.
I mean I do, but I also don't.
It takes a lot of work.
When I say a lot of work, I mean not that much.
But I am lazy.
But I also want my posts to have pictures.
First world problems.
But for now I'll just post text posts only.
I'll upload a bunch of pictures at the end of my trip or something.

But basically I haven't been doing much lately.
I spent a few days just staying in.
Going to a bar/restaurant at night.
Met up with Masae!
I haven't seen her in Ages.
Actually, I haven't seen here since I first met her.
But still, it was super awesome to hang out with her in Japan.
We went to Nijojo.
We also went to the aquarium.
I took a lot of pictures.
But we already covered why they won't be in this post.
With the Puzzles in Dragons paraphernalia everywhere in Japan, I decided to play.
It's okay.
Not as addicting as you made it sound Matt but it's fun.

I also went to Kinkakujin with Ayumi.
Today we went to Ryoan Ji Temple.
It was pretty cool.
I've made a few new friends here in Japan.
I leave rather soon.
I don't want to.
But I am also excited to finally go to Taiwan.
I really do like being here in Japan.
My Japanese has improved a lot.
But it will be nice to be in a country where I can actually speak the language.

I hope I get to hang out with Terue.
She and everyone else in Japan are just so busy all of the time.
I also want to hang out with Amy again.
But I am excited because tomorrow I get to hang out with Ayumi, Terue, Mei, Arisa, Chika, and Marie.
Haven't seen the later four since Wells.
Alright.
Until next time.

Ahhhhh

Okay, so it looks like it's going to be every other day that I'm doing this now.
Mostly because uploading pictures takes forever.
And I have a lot of pictures.
Maybe I'll be better at blogging when I'm back in the States.

But I got on a train to Osaka after last time I blogged.
Got to Osaka.
Met up with Amy.
Got a little lost.
Apparently we ended up in a dodgey part of town.
Ran into this Taiwanese guys that roomed with Will.
It's crazy because I met him one in Kyoto.
Then met him again in Osaka.
Small world.

He joined us for lunch.

Had curry.

I was starving. 

After our meal we parted ways.

Exchanged Facebook information.

Amy and I found the way to the main road.

Got to a famous part of Osaka that has lots of food.

The kind of food you put on a stick and fry. 

This statue was common also.

Touching it's feet is good luck.

Went and saw this tower in Osaka.

After that we went and saw a cool theater that has cheap shows.

We didn't see a show but I saw a nice porn advertisement right next door. 

Our next destination was a temple.

We had to walk there, it was fun.

We walked by a zoo.

We walked a while longer and got to the temple.

I thought these ogres looked cool.

Went to the top of that building, no photos allowed.

There was a part at the temple where there was a man-made pond.

Was surprised to see a few turtles swimming around in it.

We then looked at the neighboring pond. 

Where the fuck did all of these turtles come from?

After this temple we left to go to a part of Osaka that I can only describe as being similar to Times Square.

 Except this place was HUGE.

I mean, Times Sq only has a few blocks of flashy light up buildings.

Amy and I walked for around an hour and we never got to the end. 

It was just block after block of Times Sq looking buildings.

I met a pirate.

He said he wasn't in full costume today.

What?

Found a used book store.

Found the coolest thing ever.

Let me show you my pokemons.

Bought all of them.

Then we walked next to this fun wheel thing where you could win prizes.

I was like, this seems fun.

I wish Admiral Akbar had been there...

Oh look, it's a fun wheel.

Oh hey, you win a free try at our claw machines.

I got this Evee head this. fucking. close. 

I wasted about 10 dollars USD trying to get it all the way in.

God fucking damn it, those bastards. They knew this would happen.

Found a UNIQLO.

Went inside.

Had to fight every urge to buy everything.

It almost worked...

 Until I found the Star Wars shirts...

I found the Asian equivalent of the "I'm with Stupid" T-shirts. 

I then helped save the world with a power ranger I met.

You're welcome.

So I found the actual Time Sq area of Osaka.

Really puts NYC to shame.

Their regular street are like Times Sq.

And now their Times Sq. even cooler. 

Found the Glico guy.

 

 

Yup, it was a lot of fun. 

Amy and I eventually got hungry.

Ate Takoyaki. 

Then got Ramen at a Ramen store.

It was SOOOO good. 

After we were done eating we walked around some more.

Found

So pretty a night.

This thing tried to eat Amy's hand.

Posting this for you Matt, Puzzles and Dragons.

Cool graffiti I found in the "America Town" part of Osaka.

Nice guy with a octopus hat.

Walked around and saw everything.

Super tired at this point.

I went back to Kyoto.

Amy went home.

Ayumi was asleep when I got back.

I passed out shortly after.

Next day I woke up late.

Ayumi took me to see Kiyomizu-dera.

Super excited.

This is what I wanted to see in Kyoto the most.

The entrance was cool.

Packed with people.

A lot of Chinese people.

Not many Americans surprisingly, (that was probably a super American thing to say).

Went into the temple. There was this thing that weighed a fuck ton.

I was similar to our Sword in the Stone story I think.

Prayed at the main part of the temple. 

Then took some pictures of the great scenery. 

It was sooo beautiful. 

Went to the famous "Lovers" part of the temple.

People go here to get good luck in love.

I got a fortune.

It was a "Barely good fortune".

There is this rock you have to walk to from another rock with your eyes closed.

If you reach it you'll have good luck in love.

I hit like 4 people.

Ayumi helped me reach the rock in the end.

We then went to these three water stream fountain things.

You're suppose to drink from one and pray.

Depending on which on you drink from or pray to you get good luck in Love, Wealth, or Health.

 

Before leaving, Ayumi and I ate Dango and Macha saved ice.

After we left Kiyomizu-dera, we went to souvenir shops. 

Found lots of cool stores.

Found Clip-Clop and his white brother.

Also found a studio ghibli store.

I wanted so many things from there.

Ended not buying anything.

Need to save money.

wtf...

I really wanted this picture frame...

and this clock...

Ahhhh.

Japan is so much fun.

I love it here.

Not doing anything today to save money.

Going to try and cook Ayumi food.

Eileen is worried I'll give her food poisoning.