Short day again for friday, just speaking and reading/writing in the morning, then a free afternoon! No super happy fun times today, as both lessons had review tests, but it was still good! Spent the first part of the afternoon chatting with Kim, then playing scrabble with the guys, then me and India decided to do something we’d been saying we’d do for ages, and go check out the Hotel Chapel Coconuts.
The Hotel Chapel Coconuts is a love hotel down the highway, that’s a little odder than most. For a start, it is freaking huge and pink – you can see this building about a mile down the river next to Hirakata – and secondly it is hilarious – “Welcome to Adventure World” proclaims the large archway, as you cycle past flaming torches and toucans. I will take pics when we go down there again (both of us forgot our cameras, so we’re making a pic run soon). but it was good fun, especially with all the innudendo filled jokes we could make about going to a love hotel and all.
It was getting late, so I should have been heading back to homestay – however, I thought friday night would be a good night to ask if I could eat with india and come home later – which I texted, and was given full and lovely blessings by okasan. What a darling.
After that checked out the arcade, and then the shop where I bought my PSP, hoping to find India a DS lite. This caused way more hassle than it should. Because we not only found standard DS lites, we also found DS lite Overseas/North America Edition, which was 2000Y cheaper in one store and 400Y cheaper in another,and which had a huge paragraph of extra text explaining the differences, that I was having serious trouble translating xD so we phoned Ella (LOVE YOU DARLING) who googled the shit out of it for us and found that…nobody had any idea what the differences were. and then it turns out on the box, on the bit I could understand, it said the adapter worked in both NA and Japan – which is great, but why are paying 2k less for the privilege? Even now, after an hour googling and translating, people are saying conflicting things, but the one consistent thing is that it doesn’t come with a DS strap for some reason. WHO KNOWS.
Came back home and ofuro’d, then was going to go straight to bed, but ended up staying up later fiddling with things and trying to hook up my psp to he interwebs xD
