So this is it…my last night in Tokyo…my last blog from Tokyo.
Right now I’m trying to figure out how to fit everything into the luggage I have + one addition. I can’t believe it’s already over. Time just goes by tooo fast. Always. I’ve almost lost it a couple times the last few days, crying that is. I’ll be on the train and tears will come, or I see people I’ve spent the past 6 weeks with leave and tears will come, or I walk into an exhibit and they come. I don’t know what I’m being all teary about. It’s definitely a different feeling being here, when my classmates aren’t around as much. They made this trip really special. We were all very different, but we came together for the most part and I learned a whole lot from everyone. I’m also going to miss this place so much too. To just walk the streets and be with all the people and feel a part of this place. To fall asleep on the trains, I did it again today…and slept past my stop, so I just got off and got on going the other way. I love it. To eat the food here…nothing will quite compare. To have all this transportation at your disposal…so much to do and see all the time. all the toys, and electronics, and cool gadgets, and crap…I didn’t get to the Sony Building today. booo…i’ll have to leave it for when i come back…the great clothes and shoes and umbrellas. Everything is so special. This has added so much to my life. I’ve found out many things about myself.
The first is that I LOVE, with caps for emphasis ADVENTURE! I love getting lost, b/c I never ever really feel lost, I always know that sooner or later, something will look familiar. It’s just a matter of staying cool and not getting frustrated. I loved trying all the new things here…from bathing in onsen, to eating tongue and heart and raw squid and octopus.
I love staying up late here. The nights go by really quickly. And there’s nothing better than catching the first train with all the other sleepy heads.
I can say that regardless of how other people view me, I really feel a part of the people here for the most part. I feel as though I’ve learned how to be a part of this society and the way things work here.
So here’s to Japan and my short time here. I will never forget this as long as I live. And it will always live on in the future. In my memories and in my photographs and in my new relationships with people I would have never met otherwise.
Living here, has been like living in a dream. It’s very magical and surreal, how it looks like familiar things, but behaves in a completetly foreign way. It’s like my life as I knew it was frozen in time and I’ve been living in the future.
Well it’s back to reality for me tomorrow, after one last trip to Shibuya. One of my favorite places. I think I’m goign to meet some people for lunch there. And then on the way back to the station I’ll walk across Shibuya crossings and say farewell for now. I will be back…soon I hope.
Goonight friends and goodnight Tokyo.