Exploration

Ssssooo after arriving in Nagoya on Friday, I had the luck of not having to work until the next week, with both Saturday and Sunday both off ^_^
First a bit about my new place. The location is again about 15minutes from the station. There is a hospital very close to me (very useful in case of emergencies :P) and a university as well (interesting to look at :) ).
This flat is smaller than my 1st place, but still a good size. The kitchen and entrance are all in one, with the bathroom the door on the right as you enter. After that you have the living room with cupboards for storage. Where do I sleep? up the ladder!!!
(2nd one from the left is me :P)


Saturday
Saturday was spent exploring Yagoto one stop down from where I live. Managed to find a 100yen shop (yay!) and a supermarket called Jusco (those chinese among us might recognise the name).
There were also some old historical parts, a temple i think and a old walkway.

On Friday night I had made contact with an old friend of my brothers named Kwok, and we arranged to meet up for dinner on Saturday.
The place we were to meet was called Gokiso, so I decided to go there a little earlier to explore there as well. We met at 7.30pm and having found that the original place we wanted to go to was completely packed (a very nice looking sushi place) we decided to walk to a different place. In the end we ended up walking from Gokiso to Tsuranami two stops away lol :P
There he showed me this beautiful park, and a proper park not small inner vity one, but one more likely to found in the UK. Only difference being that there lots of Sakura trees!! If you don`t know it the Sakura (cherry blossom) festival at the moment called Hanami. It`s basically a time where everyone gets together and to have a picnic under the sakura trees and get completely smashed :P We bought some beer from a conveniance store and walked around the park.
*Interesting fact about Japan - Coveniance stores are 24hour and they sell alcohol 24 hours too*
The park was a very interesting experiance, with the sight of lot and lots of people so drunk they couldn`t stand up straight. But the most amusing sight was three Japanese business men (in full get up with tie and jacket still in place) drunkeredly playing guitar while singing a song!! Now you`d never see that in the UK, definitely not in Kansas anymore :))). All in all a very entertaining night.


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