Tokyo Tale
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Monday 18th
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Last week I spent the week in Tokyo and was able to go to many places and see many people.
I will start from the beginning. I left early Monday morning on the highway bus after a late night. The night before we had a birthday party sleepover in a far away land (Hosoe, very country) and so I had to get back in the morning on the normal bus to my house, without having had much or any sleep. I made it on time, and then my host dad comes and tells me we have to leave earlier because he has some kind of meeting and then he will take me to the bus stop. I ambled along to his meeting with some sort of metal-product making factory's president and chairman. I sat and drank some iced-tea while they chatted about who knows what! After about 30 minutes, one of the guys asked me if I would like a tour of the factory. It was pretty interesting, with all the special machines and computers to make these metal things (i.e. engine parts, cutting metal with special marks and holes, etc).. anyway, by the end I was hoping I would be getting on my bus or else I would be late to meet Carly. The bus trip took about 4 hours (usually I would take the shinkansen if I was with someone.. but seeing I was with myself and had to pay, I chose the cheaper option). The bus trip was alright, I slept most of the way, but the girl sitting next to me kept falling asleep and banging her head on my shoulder. After about 4 hours, I finally arrived at Tokyo in the middle of a big traffic jam. I still had about 1 hour to meet up with Carly and I still had to find where we were meeting. It wasn't that hard to find where to go and I wasted some time till carly met me.
That night we had a concert to go and see, the Lucksmiths playing in Shibuya, but also accompanied by some other bands. The concert was fantastic save for the band at the start. When we arrived at the concert, we heard these noises like tuning up guitars, the singer singing notes over and again as if warming up her voice and also testing instruments, but we soon realised that this was the start to their first song. Very interesting... especially when they brought out the plastic whistle, and some sort of tube that slightly resembled a didgeridoo. The other bands were a Japanese band and another Melbourne band, Art of Fighting. When the Lucksmiths finally came on, they played some great songs from their new album. In case you don't know who the Lucksmiths are, they are another Melbourne band who play nice happy bright music http://www.thelucksmiths.com.au/
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Monday 18th
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Last week I spent the week in Tokyo and was able to go to many places and see many people.
I will start from the beginning. I left early Monday morning on the highway bus after a late night. The night before we had a birthday party sleepover in a far away land (Hosoe, very country) and so I had to get back in the morning on the normal bus to my house, without having had much or any sleep. I made it on time, and then my host dad comes and tells me we have to leave earlier because he has some kind of meeting and then he will take me to the bus stop. I ambled along to his meeting with some sort of metal-product making factory's president and chairman. I sat and drank some iced-tea while they chatted about who knows what! After about 30 minutes, one of the guys asked me if I would like a tour of the factory. It was pretty interesting, with all the special machines and computers to make these metal things (i.e. engine parts, cutting metal with special marks and holes, etc).. anyway, by the end I was hoping I would be getting on my bus or else I would be late to meet Carly. The bus trip took about 4 hours (usually I would take the shinkansen if I was with someone.. but seeing I was with myself and had to pay, I chose the cheaper option). The bus trip was alright, I slept most of the way, but the girl sitting next to me kept falling asleep and banging her head on my shoulder. After about 4 hours, I finally arrived at Tokyo in the middle of a big traffic jam. I still had about 1 hour to meet up with Carly and I still had to find where we were meeting. It wasn't that hard to find where to go and I wasted some time till carly met me.
That night we had a concert to go and see, the Lucksmiths playing in Shibuya, but also accompanied by some other bands. The concert was fantastic save for the band at the start. When we arrived at the concert, we heard these noises like tuning up guitars, the singer singing notes over and again as if warming up her voice and also testing instruments, but we soon realised that this was the start to their first song. Very interesting... especially when they brought out the plastic whistle, and some sort of tube that slightly resembled a didgeridoo. The other bands were a Japanese band and another Melbourne band, Art of Fighting. When the Lucksmiths finally came on, they played some great songs from their new album. In case you don't know who the Lucksmiths are, they are another Melbourne band who play nice happy bright music http://www.thelucksmiths.com.au/
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