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08/15/2006: "Japan Day 4"

Japan what a beautiful country. But with beauty comes price. Everything is so expensive here for Frugal Ron. Doing anything fun costs lots of money, so I just dont do anything. I woke up at 2, and surfed the internet until 6. At 6 I went outside and played video games at the arcade until 10 then came back to my hotel.

I really need to find things to do. Today was a wasted day. Tomorrow I will go to Shibura which is the fashion capital of japan. I will probably buy some clothes or something.

I did some thinking today and realized that I have picked up some bad habits from living amongst chinese peasants.

Some of the habits that I have picked up and hope to abolish while in japan:

Spitting everywhere
Crossing streets without waiting and without crosswalks
Throwing trash/food everywhere
Talking very loud
Showering only once per two weeks
Shoving people out of the way in a line
Walking to the front of a line without waiting
Eating sunflower seeds constantly and spitting them everywhere
Wanting to punch everyone who makes me angry
and a few more on the top of my head.

I realized that what I want in life is very simple compared to most people. I just want to survive the winter and train my mind/body/spirit.

I really need something to do in Japan. I want to go visit a Hakkyoku Ken school and I would like to see some sumo wrestlers and geisha. I wish I had some kind of guide to help because by myself I am a bit shy. Since I am pretty much bilingual now, it freaks me out that I cant understand japanese. I communicate with japanese people by writing characters. I will start learning the japanese language seriously now and maybe in the future I can find a job here. Japan is what I thought china was going to be.