Once again I found myself taking an easy day today (starting to think I should be building my stamina a bit more) but there were some important things I needed to get done today. The first was testing my commute again - I know I've done that before, but I had yet to practice it in early morning Rush hour.
Japanese rush hour is the stuff of nightmares. To best describe it would be liken it to taking a full packet of sausages and then trying to add a second packet worth to the already full bag. You don't need to bother with holding the railing, there isn't room to fall and even if you did, you'd be held up by the sheer amount of people in one third of the carriage. But oddly enough, there seemed to come a moment at around 8.15/8.30 when the number of commuters slackens off (don't ask me why). This made it much easier for me to get to my office building, and the whole process only took me 29 minutes, a new record.
I had thought to come back via Tokyo dome to see if there is anything interesting on today, but then I remembered that nothing fun happens before 10 on most weekdays. So I made my slow way back to the apartment, and proceeded to work through some emails, and somehow discover how to use my Japanese banks internet banking (Once again, don;t ask me how I figured it out, I have no idea). I did go out to lunch, but I wasn't feeling very adventurous today, so I found an untested restaurant in Yodobashi Camera again, then hit the local arcade for a bit to pass the time.
This afternoon was more fun, because I went back to the cinema and was able to see the film I wanted to see before - Rurouni Kenshin. This live action film is based off one of my favourite Manga series of All time, and I decided to brave seeing it in Japanese with no subtitles. Now I won't go into just how many levels of Epic this film exceeded (I run a film review blog for that) but I will talk about visiting a Japanese cinema and seeing a film in a foreign language.....Its hard. The cinema wasn't too complicated to work out, although I think I irritated the ticket lady by confusing where it was ok to sit on her monitor. Watching the film was another process entirely. Since I'm not fluent yet, and can't read kanji to save my life, I'll admit I had a hard time with some of the big speeches. Fortunately I have been studying the language for three years, have watched a ton of anime, and read the manga about 1000 times. All this meant that I was able to keep up with the film with only a few small problems. So it was well worth giving it a go, and was a thoroughly enjoyable way to practice my language skills.
After the film I came back to the apartment and worked out my plans for the next couple of days. On that note I shall point out that I will be away tomorrow and Thursday and unable to blog tomorrow (because I can't lug my laptop around everywhere). So if you are an avid reader of mine, don't loose hope when you see I haven't posted yet. Just expect two days worth on Thursday.
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