I was really bummed out when I woke up on Wednesday. Reasons why I won’t get into too much cause that’s just depressing but part of it was anxiety over a. holy crap this is life and how did I manage to get here? and b. it’s a holiday weekend and oh no how do I fully take advantage of it so that I can say, YES I appreciate this scary life and I am NOT going to waste it away. I was getting to the stage where hours were being wasted by my worrying about wasting hours and days. Somehow I managed to get showered and leave my apartment. I walked to the city centre thinking that maybe I just needed a good book to read and I remembered there being some English books at a store in More’s City (a department store next to the Yokosuka-Chuo station). Before the bookstore, I did the routine games & electronics store browse and guess what…




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On Tuesday the same place was sold out but on this day I struck gold!! It took me five minutes to buy the DS Lite and that felt a little weird. Usually with electronics purchases over $100, you get bombarded with warranties and point systems and store credit cards. This was quick and easy. In five minutes I went from bummed to glowing. They didn’t have the main application I wanted in stock, so my plan for the day was set – I would go to Yokohama in search of this game. It’s not actually a game…it is a Japanese-English translation tool / electronic dictionary with kanji input by stylus and man does it ever rock!! The tetris game I bought on the side is also pretty good but not as good as old tetris. They made some changes that I`m not that into.
I love my DS lite to bits. It even already has a name, I was prompted to give it one as soon as I turned it on (I think…the prompt was in Japanese). The first thing that came to me was “PopTart!” and that stuck.
This purchase made me so happy and to make the day better, some friends invited me along to play tennis. So…I am not really that good at tennis. Actually, I am pretty horrible and this was only my third time on the court but they were so great!! They spent so much time giving me pointers and very useful ones too! Not just the “keep your eye on the ball” that is supposed to magically make me a pro. I don`t know if I made any progress during the practice but that would be through no fault of theirs. It was a very fun time!
On to Thursday…? (Or Tuesday if you are reading this the other way.)