久しぶり！(Long Time No Blog.)

I've been really bad at keeping everyone updated with everything that has happened in Japan. I'll try to sum up everything in one little blog. Yes, I am still alive and I do miss my friends in America. I'm not ready to come home yet so, I guess you can say I'm not home sick. This is I guess what you can say the first time that I've lived and had an apartment all to myself. It's a really good feeling and all but sometimes I get bored that I run out of Internet articles to read and I stare at my ケータイ and hope someone messages me. In Japan, cell phone calls are kind of expensive compared to America. There's no such thing as free nights and weekends. There's also no free network to network calls.

One thing that has really made my Japanese a lot better is the fact that Kanae is back in Japan. She's been back since June and it's been fun trying to juggle our work schedules with her families schedule. For the most part we can see each other at least twice a week. Pretty nice! Now back to the subject of cell phones, I wanted to put Kanae on my family plan so we could call each other for free. The problem was my foreign card had my name written as Ramsey Wade C. and my Drivers License said Wade C. Ramsey. They absolutely couldn't let that slip. I finally was able to trick them because my Passport has my last name first. Japanese are pretty strict about rules.

As you know I love my bicycle right. Well I like to travel to different towns using my bike. It's really good exercise and going from one town to the next isn't that far. At least I don't think so. It's about 3 miles to Kanae's town from mine. Unfortunately one night while I was taking Kanae to the train station on my bike. The back wheel spokes broke. Damn cheap Chinese made bike. At least I think it's Chinese made. I had to send my bike to a shop for about three weeks. It cost me about $30 to fix. While it was being fixed though, the place I bought my bike lent me a bike. It was a little rusty but it had six gears which made climbing hills a little easier. My bike only has three gears. The bad thing was the basket on the borrowed bike had such a small basket so I could buy more than one grocery bag full of food.

My PS3 broke at the beginning of the month while I was installing GTA4 to the HDD. I was really excited to play the game because of all the good reviews it's recieved from various websites. Sony Japan sad that it was impossible for them to fix my Sony PS3. I'm pretty sure the guts of the machines are pretty much the same. Oh well. I decided it would be cheap and a better idea to buy a Japanese PS3. I got a 40Gb White PS3 with no PS2 backwards capablilty. I kind of down graded but I swapped my 80GB HDD from my broken PS3 to my new one. I'm somewhat satisfied now with the switch. To let everyone know I don't think GTA4 deseerved the perfect scores it got. The game is far from perfect. I hate car chases in this one. The camera doesn't work in your favor in these scenerios.

I saw the Dark Knight too but I lost my wallet and my original tickets on my way to the theater. Japan isn't as honest as it claims to be. Four weeks no wallet. I lost my Gaijin card, drivers license, American Bank card, and all my little membership cards for various shops in Japan. Oh well I applied for most of my cards. I'm not sure if I can get a new license or not. I don't drive a car but I think one day I would like to buy a car if I stay in Japan for a long time. The Dark Knight was awesome. I'm sure you guys got to see it a lot sooner than I did but I liked it so much I bought Batman Begins on Blu Ray.

I went to Hiroshima recently. I was really happy to see my best friend Shaggy. We went sight seeing and went to an Izakaya. Hiroshima was so beautiful. I like mountains and Hiroshima had plenty of them. I played some deer in Miyajima and ate some momiji manju. The last night in Hiroshima Shaggy took Kanae and I to a Karaoke box. I love Karaoke boxes. There's some pictures posted within the picture link above on the site. Look in the folder labeled Hiroshima. I'll see you a few more months. LOL.

I really try to do a better job of writing interesting things but when school starts and I get into rutine life gets kind of basic. I'm not the type to pour my feelings on a blog site. Too personal. Later.