Gas Panic

Tuesday May 19, 2009

Today started off with a lecture on environmental policy. It was interesting enough, not as good as some of the other lectures that we have had but the video was interesting. It was about the different environmental incidents that have occurred in the recent history of Japan and the effects that they had on the population. Once such incident was Mercury poisoning in a lake that a company dumped waste into. It showed the effects on the local community, and on the environment. The video was the most interesting part of the lecture. Afterwards we rushed to the Edo Tokyo museum, with a McDonald's stop before hand. We were rushed for lunch because some of the people in the group needed to get to the Bunraku show that was happening at 4. The museum was interesting, it had a lot of models of traditional Japanese towns, as well as different eras of Japanese history and art. After the museum we made it back to the hotel and decided on an adventure to Shibuya. Nine of us went on our own and started off the night and a British pub called Hub. It was kind of boring so we left after one drink. We ended up at a small dance bar called gas panic. It was a lot of fun, we all did some dancing and had a good time. We had an adventure making it back because we missed the direct train home. So I navigated the way through the immensely confusing Japanese subway system, making a transfer and got us on the last train to the stop near Meiji University. It was an adventure, but definitely a good night.