UUuuughhhhh....

*I have never seen a more confusing keyboard. I am not even kidding, some keys have 4 things on them and the space bar is the size of a normal button. I have no idea how to access the apostrophe so I will not be using it at all. I have added another thing to my }things that irk me about japan} <---I just pressed the button that should have the quotation mark but instead has those brackets. I should just accept that sometimes things will be different but I]m American so I am not going to even try to learn how to use this keyboard and smash it against the wall when I am done

Hooookay, so now i am in the Sumidagawa Youth Hostel in Asakusa. One train station away from Akihabara. I have been here for about a week and from this trip so far I have realized how shitty I am at doing things. If I ever come back, which I hope to do in the summer, here are some things that I will make sure I do.

-Fucking figure out where I am going to stay before I come here. Seriously, I do not know how it made sense to me before to look for places the stay the day before I need them. I wanted to stay at old style Japanese inns, but since you have to book the rooms at least a week in advance, i am staying in capsules (not the bad by the way maybe i will blog about it later) and hostels.

-Learn how to pack right. I brought 2 pairs of shoes here and bought one pair here so now I have to take 3 pairs of shoes home. Okay, I brought almost all my stuff in a huge backpack and I before I left I was thinking about taking 3 pairs. What the hell is wrong with me, I am so fricking vain. Oh yeah, I also brought 3 jeans here, I have not worn one of them at all since I got here and I bought another one. So I brought 3, only wore 2, and bought another one. I am so dumb.

-Make a budget. I made a budget but from the second day I was already half way to it. The fricking money is so easy to spend when five and one dollar equivalents are coins. Like, I see on the coin 500 yen or 100 yen but in my head i am like, hell ya this is only costing me 1 big coin and 2 little ones.

-Make an itinerary or at least figure out what I want to do. People ask me what I want to do and i just say I am not sure. I have travel books and stuff but when I start looking at them it feels like i am doing homework so i stop. I at least want to wake up and be excited but i am usually like hmmm i wonder where the nearest atm is so that I can take out what ever money i have left and figure out what to do from there.

-get a plug adapter.

-I really regret not studying Japanese more at school. Most times I hear or read something that I should know but I do not. Which then leads to me trying to speak broken Japanese-English which then leads to the other person to speaking their broken English-Japanese and ya.


But, this is my first time traveling alone so ya. Whatddya expect? And I am only bloggin about shitty things because there are sooooo many awesome things that I want to say but can not yet because I have no idea where to start. Probably when I have time again I will put some pics up again.

And do not worry mom I am fine. I am not sleeping on the streets.