Given how infrequently I update it, I’m not sure if I’m allowed to call this a journal or diary or whatever. I’m not sure what the rules are, if any. And it’s been a long time since my single semester of Creative Writing class. But whatever. It’s now 2016 and in just over a month, it’ll have been a year since I arrived in Tokyo. The age-old saying ‘time flies’ has never rang more true. So what’s happened since my last entry?
I learned some bathhouse etiquette during a visit to one of Tokyo’s biggest super-sento. I co-starred in a commercial with a Japanese gravure idol. I finally saw the life-size RX-78-2 Gundam in Odaiba and laid the remnants of my 11-year-old self to rest in glorious fashion. I reached the latter half of my twenties with my first birthday and ‘home-party’ in Japan. I reconnected with a very talented Canadian pal for some filmmaking escapades. I got plastered with pretty much everyone else in Shibuya for Halloween.
I got a better-paying (yet more stereotypically-gaijin) job. I paid my first visit to a Japanese movie theatre for Disney’s new Star Wars movie (meh). I experienced my first Kentucky Fried Christmas and rang in the new year with someone special. I modelled for Japan’s reputable clothing brand Beams. And I got a visit from two besties all the way from Vancouver! Only… I was mostly too busy to take any cool photos of this stuff. And going into detail for each and every event would clearly be too troublesome for me to write, and for you to read.
Instead, I’d like to share the gorgeous sunset I saw in Odaiba on my birthday—one of the few times I actually had my camera on me. Thanks for reading!