japan trip #1
i'm in japan! wanna document this trip, since this probably won't happen again for a while, so here we goooo
(day 0)
- had to tell the lyft driver to turn around 5min into the drive to the airport cause i forgot my contacts, so extremely good start there
- watched robot dreams on the plane, good movie!
day 1 (arrival, garden)
- arrived at 4am so had to wait in the airport for an hour until the first train arrived
- holy shit i love the train system here btw, so efficient and understandable i’m obsessed
- went to a soba place for lunch and was very frazzled until an old man walked over to help me out in english, ty ojii-san
- also went to the shinjuku gyoenmae national garden, unbelievably gorgeous and i journaled on a bench while listening to cicadas fuck
day 2 (hikikomori)
- depressed!
- ate at a gyoza place which was great and checked out the kinokuniya/surugaya, but otherwise i was just spiraling
- very anxious and scared, stayed in my bed for most of the day actually
- there's a lot to it, but mostly about realizing how unprepared i really am (this was purposeful but way more intense than i anticipated) and freaking out over being judged for being an ignorant foreigner while looking japanese
- that being said, gotta push through cause we are not gonna waste this extremely valuable trip
stay tuned for more exciting developments oooooooo