Thursday May 21st, 2009

Today we had our lecture with Professor Horikane, the Professor who Professor Wallin is coordinating this trip with. The lecture was on the History of Japanese foreign policy and was actually very intersting. It was especially intersting to hear a differnt side of the events that took place during the war. She has a lot of pride for Japan, and it was very different to hear the other perspective. After the lecture we went to Ueno park. This park had the a few museums as well as a zoo. We went into the Tokyo National Museum, and inside there was art work, samurai, artifacts and a Buddah room. It was a really cool museum, and it was interesting to see so much of Japanese history. Afterwards we tried to go to the zoo but it closed at 4:30 so we didnt to in. I got a churro and we ended up walking around this busy street near Ueno park. There were lots of crowded shops and food stands. We went back after about a half hour and hung in for a while that night. Around 10 we decided to go do some Karokee. We went with Yuya, Jason, Darius, Marissa, Andrew, Ahmed, and his friend. Its sad that I can remember the words to Nookie by limp bisket but have difficulty remembering things I learn in school. We left around 2 because we got a deal that we could stay all night. Usually karokee wouldnt be my style, but I really enjoy it here.