Yeah, I know I keep saying it, but...

...pictures will be later. Definitely today, but later.

I just wanted to say I may have found my birthday present this year. It'll be a month early but...

JCMU will reimburse us for about $60 USD if we go on a student-directed field trip. We can go anywhere we want as long as we go to three or four places of cultural/historical significance.

...I want to go to Tokyo. I could so take a train and go to Tokyo.

Of course, it would cost about $240 USD for the train there and back...a bus wouldn't be that much better, and it'd take even longer. So I don't know, but I'm seriously considering it. At least I get a $60 discount if I do it through the school. I've been playing around with an itinerary (I might not get to do everything, but...):

-Take the train from Hikone Station with three connections to Harajuku Station
-Visit Takeshita Dori (super-chic shopping street) and Laforet Harajuku (seven-stories high mall skyscraper, probably the inspiration for Gwen Stefani's song "Harajuku Girls")
-Visit Meiji Jingu (Shinto shrine), and the Ota Memorial Museum of Art (traditional Japanese paintings), take a walk down Omote-sando Avenue to see the awesome greenery there
-Visit Yoyogi Park (the site of the first Japanese powered aircraft flight and now a good place for people-watching) and NHK Studio Park (where, if you're lucky, you can even see a show being taped and meet your favorite Japanese TV celebrities)
-Walk along Koen Dori (another chic shopping street) before catching the train back with three connections to Hikone from Shibuya Station


So yeah...besides the "I could get lost so easily" factor, it'll cost at least $249 just to get there (train and admission to the art museum and NHK Studio Park). Not to mention that Tokyo food is expensive and I'll probably end up buying at least one souvenir... Oh, well. Even if I don't end up going to Tokyo, I'm definitely going to take advantage of this reimbursement thing. I'm gonna go somewhere cool...hee hee.