Universal Studios Japan was REALLY REALLY awesome! Of course! Yudai and I got there like 45 minutes early, so we were close to the front of one of the lines to get in. Which turned out to be awesome because a bunch of school groups came, and it ended up being busier than I assumed it would be. So finally when the doors opened and the started letting people in we RAAAAAAN to the new roller coaster and managed to get into the first ride of the day (that actually had people on it). Not the first seats, but, really that didn’t matter. It was so awesome and a great start to the day.
Then we basically did almost everything there was to do that seemed interesting. We skipped out on the Snoopy rides and a lot of the shows, but basically everything else we did. The rides were awesome, and Waterworld was actually a really intriguing show thing. My favorite thing was the rollercoaster though. There are five songs, and you get to listen to one as you ride the roller coaster. Amazingly, you can hear it over the screams and stuff. The USJ coaster is a bit different than the normal ones.
As far as food went, we had these calzone things for lunch. Yudai wanted pizza, but the place wasn’t open yet…and frankly it wasn’t American pizza. I could have chicken pizza or some other really odd flavor, and neither looked appealing. In the afternoon we shared like a huge onion blossom thing. It was really big, but like Yudai had his mind set on getting to eat it at USJ, so yeah. It was good, but not sure why he was so excited for it. Then we waited in line for about an hour and a half (UGH) to ride the rollercoaster a second time before we left and USJ closed. So we did which was fun again.
Then we did one more thing, left, waited a bit for dinner. Neither of us was really so hungry. But we wanted to go to Hard Rock Cafe. We did after awhile, and it was REALLY good, and I hadn’t had a bacon burger since I left America like 7 months ago (wow). BUT it was the most expensive burger I have ever eaten, coming in at about $16USD for just the burger and fries. Extremely expensive, plus they charged a 10% tip which is outrageous. Japan doesn’t HAVE tips. If you want to be like America, fine, have a $8 burger and 10% tip. If you want to be like Japan, fine, charge $15 with no tip. BUT DON’T TAKE THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING FROM BOTH WORLDS! It really made me angry. I had a 10% off coupon so, yay, no tip. But what a waste of 10% off. Hard Rock Cafe has good food, and bad ethics. If I get time I will send them a formal complaint.
Anyways, that day was really fun.
Now to play catch up about the rest of my week… Japanese students have been having Health Exams at school, which is kind of weird. They had to bring in urine samples which is REALLY weird. They were in these little bag things. Sooooooooo disgusting. I am excused because I had a physical before leaving Japan. Tomorrow they have their teeth check, and I’m also excused. Although I’m really worried that maybe I’ll get a cavity and it will eat my tooth for the whole year before coming back to America. Scary. So hopefully I’ll have those two hours to do whatever.
I am really not appreciating a certain teacher’s behavior lately. Like he or she is being very strict, and … ugh. Plus his or her English has multiple mistakes that I can pick up, but I’m too scared to say anything. But it still bugs me every time I hear it. I love English, I like to write, so obviously I want Japanese students to learn the correct way to say things. Usually I do correct teachers. There is one teacher that I especially like because she is very gracious if I point something out and asked me to do so. I don’t try to come across as some cocky native speaker though, so yeah, don’t get that image in your head.
But this week is actually going very well, and I feel my Japanese is improving, so that is very good.
Oh and I will be leaving the country on Saturday. You can use the comment section to guess where I’m going if you want. I love visiting new countries, but I’ve kept this a secret. Because it wasn’t for sure confirmed.
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You’re going to South Korea to visit your friend. ^-^ You know I’m right. (Not to be cocky myself, but I think you meant “I had a physical before leaving AMERICA”, not Japan. Hahaha, it’s okay. We understand.)
cool! im hittin’ up seoul next summer with my friend who is korean. his parents moved from korea when they were like 10 so they want him to experience it. and I’m going because I’m interested in Korean and possibly might want to teach english there. so yeah should be fun, hope u have fun there!
P.S. are you coming back from South Korea to Japan or are you leaving Japan for good and just going straight home?