4/20/2022 0 Comments Week 3: First two weeksStarting from where I last left off, I've continued to travel around multiple places around Tokyo. I've visited some of the more popular places like Asakusa, Shibuya, and Naka-Meguro. As the rain began to fade away, the weather has become warmer during the day. I occasionally start sweating while walking under the sun. But once the sun sets, it starts to get colder within an hour. Since it's still spring, the cherry blossoms are still in bloom. But as the weather has started to get warmer, the flowers have started to wilt or fall off. If I was able to get into Japan a few weeks earlier, I could have seen them in full bloom. Naka-Meguro is known for their wide street filled with cherry blossom trees, but most of the blossoms were already gone when I visited the area.
As I've been travelling around the city, I've noticed many things. To start things off, the people in Tokyo have a very good sense of fashions. Almost everyone goes out with an outfit that fits the weather. The main thing that I've noticed is that many people have been wearing trench coats. As a result, I feel that I am very underdressed compared to the other people and have been thinking about buying clothes to look more like other people. Another thing is that many people prefer wearing straight or baggy long pants. This is different compared to what people in Hawaii wear. Another big thing I've noticed is that food in Japan is relatively cheap compared to food in Hawaii. Small items like sandwhiches, onigiri, small pastries, and other premade meals fall around the 110-600 Yen mark ($0.89-$4.83 USD). Going to restuarants is also the same. I got a set that consisted of an appetizer, soup, a main dish, and a side dish for 990 Yen ($7.97). If I got something similar in Hawaii, the price would have been more than twice the price. Not to mention, the food quality in Japan is much higher compared to food back home. Everything I've eaten in restaurants have been very good and I have not been upset by a meal. I know for sure that the thing I'm going to miss the most once I return home is the food. A thing to note is that portions in Japan are smaller, but the food quality greatly makes up for it. Turning to my classes, I'm taking seven courses for the semester. With the way the university structures classes, I attend a class once a week. Five of the seven of my classes are online. To add on, I've been very luck to have a schedule where I only have classes for three of the seven days of the week. For the classes themselves, the classes I've taken so far show that reading and writing are a consistent assignments I need to complete. I reviewed the syllabuses of my classes and noticed that almost all of them require essays as the final assignment. This means I'm going to be spending a lot of my time indoors working on essays nearing the end of the semester.
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