If you wanna come an take a ride wid me
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Today, I went with Shimon to fix up his little Mitsubishi Minica. Shimon really loves his little egg car and he was going to spruce it up by giving it an oil change, new spark plugs, and a new oil filter. I mean if it was his egg, he had to take care of it like if it was his baby.
While we were waiting for his car tune up, we went for a walk. It was an incredibly warm day; it reminded me why I needed to get the heck out of Japan before summer hit. We wandered and ended up at a nice stream. The murky, brown stream was the place to be if you were a fish, insect, snake, or turtle. It was brimming with life. We saw turtles taking in sun while perched on the various rocks that managed to protrude just enough out of the water to provide a small secluded island. We also managed to spot a snake floating like a lifeless twig in the water, until it decided to go after one of the turtles. As I watched, I noticed it was some-what silent, and there was no one narrating this interesting event like I'm used to.
After fixing his car, we decided to just drive around. We ended up going to Hamamatsu. There is a mammoth shopping complex in Hamamatsu called the Aeon mall. It towers with an enormous parking lot of 3500 spaces that announces to everyone that it is the king of the prefecture, and no one should challenge its authority. Here we met an interesting person who was working at a mall booth. He was selling leather wallets and managed to catch that we were speaking in English. He was a fellow English speaker who was from Canada but lived in Japan most of his life. He said he was a surfer and worked at the Mall part-time. It's interesting how English speakers are drawn together in foreign countries.
Anyways, we continued on our journey and visited a couple of random beaches, and I ended up getting a haircut. Long story short, windy, sand, got a bad haircut, but was okay for the price, didn't look like the picture... hope this isn't a run on sentence.
After fixing his car, we decided to just drive around. We ended up going to Hamamatsu. There is a mammoth shopping complex in Hamamatsu called the Aeon mall. It towers with an enormous parking lot of 3500 spaces that announces to everyone that it is the king of the prefecture, and no one should challenge its authority. Here we met an interesting person who was working at a mall booth. He was selling leather wallets and managed to catch that we were speaking in English. He was a fellow English speaker who was from Canada but lived in Japan most of his life. He said he was a surfer and worked at the Mall part-time. It's interesting how English speakers are drawn together in foreign countries.Anyways, we continued on our journey and visited a couple of random beaches, and I ended up getting a haircut. Long story short, windy, sand, got a bad haircut, but was okay for the price, didn't look like the picture... hope this isn't a run on sentence.
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