Lost in Translation

If any of you have not seen the movie with the above title, I highly recommend you go out and see it. Tonight, I sort of felt like the main characters in said film, in that I sort of wandered around Tokyo. Today we went sightseeing. We had two guides, of whose names I forget. Both music students, one played pretty hardcore jazz trombone. We saw the Imperial Palace and surrounding gardens, the Sensoji shrine in the Asakusa district, and Ginza, which is where some of the action of Lost in Translation took place. Afterwards, I walked around Tokyo for most of the night by myself, which I enjoyed. Benjamin is still sort of sick, so he hit the sack early. I wandered about, bought some film, some Japanese soccer paraphenelia, some food, a book. After dropping it off at the hotel, I took the subway back to Ginza. God knows if I'll ever be in Tokyo again, and I really wanted to see all the neon. I was not disappointed. I don't know, it was both peaceful and overwhelming all at once. I felt very small, alone in a huge city, with no knowledge of the language, and little of the culture. But at the same time, I felt very much at one with the people and the city. It both made me rejoice in my single traveler-ness, and wish for a companion. Anyways, I stopped in some pub type establishment and had some Japanese beer called Yebisu. I'm of legal age here, so my conscience was clear. It was also very small. After that, I took the subway back to the hotel, got some ice cream, and now find myself writing in this thing, my last night in Japan. I will miss this country very much. I can really see myself spending a significant amount of time here in the future. Too many thoughts to write down here. I'm a little nervous for China, but I think it will be fun. I don't know if it can top this though. I'm not quite sure if I like Japan better than France, but it is definitely equal. One last thing. I think Japanese women are just beautiful. A large majority of Japanese women in my general age bracket just look beautiful to me. Physically at least, I don't know about their persona. Just wanted to share that with you.