Out and about in Ginza

Today I was actually pretty productive. I got more things checked off my list which were mainly things that needed to be cleaned. I talked to family for a little bit. I asked them about my ideas for my class and they offered me their suggestions. They were studying for their Spanish classes, and we were speaking to each other in Spanish, which is really weird. We didn’t talk that much either. They needed to sleep because they had early classes the next day. I was also talking with my friend that lives in San Francisco. She was recommending to me that I get a magazine with the events around Tokyo and Yokohama, so I could get out of the house more. I really should do that too, but I’m just getting lazy about it.

I had made plans to meet with one of my friends from high school. He didn’t go to my high school, but was a friend on mine from that time period. He’s a really intelligent and able person. He’s studying at Harvard Law School right now, which is pretty cool I think. He’s here on a trip with school. He was shopping around in Ginza, and I would meet him around there. But I wouldn’t meet him till 9pm. So I decided to give myself a haircut before then.

At first things were ok, but when I almost finished, I messed it up and now it is a little too short for me. I wanted to have my hair longer, but now it is really short, like the time I used to have it. For some reason, I don’t like it though; even though it is the same length that I’ve had for a year and a half now. I think that was a weird feeling too. For me, it just looks strange now, but it actually is quite usual. I ended up fixing it enough so it doesn’t look horrible, but it’s just short. Today was actually pretty cold too, so having short hair really isn’t very beneficial for me.

I had to leave the house soon after that to catch the train to get to Ginza on time. We only planned to have dinner together, and I really had no idea what to get, so we just went walking around. We found a nice little ramen place, it really wasn’t nice, but we found his friends inside eating there. It was the strangest thing since we were walking around for a little while and in such a big city with so many restaurants, we ended up going into the ones where his friends from school and on the same trip. We went in and just said hi and then we left to go find another restaurant since they were just finishing up. They suggested that we try a Korean BBQ place.

So I thought I found one, but it turned out to be a BBQ beef tongue place. The beef tongue place was a Sendai themed restaurant. I was pretty close and did read the kanji right, I just neglected the tongue part in the translation. It turned out to be pretty good and we got a nice set to eat with that. I didn’t finish the food and was eating really slow and I’m not sure why either. We were talking for a few hours while we were there. It was good to catch up and hear about the things that he’s been up to. We tried to think about the people that we knew from high school and who we keep in contact with. All of them were Key Club people since that’s how we knew each other. It was really good. It was just by random chance that I found out that he was in Tokyo too. I read it on his xanga since I get daily subscriptions from my friends. So it was great to see him. He looks exactly the same as I last saw him, like 4-5 years ago.
After that, we went to a convenient store and he bought Green Tea Kit Kat, which he shared a little bit of. I was surprised that it tasted pretty good. I’ll probably have to be more daring and try more things. Then we walked back to Ginza station, he was taking the subway and I was taking JR, so I made sure that he jumped on the right train and platform and then I left for the JR lines.