day 23 - one (comparatively) short entry

26/06/07 "late. later than expected."
after yesterday`s drunken madness, i will keep this entry short. it was a pretty short day, after all. in fact i even overslept. i was woken by mrs. aoki at 11:35 (lunch was due for 11:30), and i had to hurry to get dressed and everything because we needed to leave the house at 12. i was to meet atami`s mayor (even if it`s a small city that`s dreadfully official, don`t you think). he only had 10 minutes to spare though and we talked a little bit, while we were photographed by the local press and some ten other people sat there doing not so much. the mayor is the biggest japanese i`ve seen so far, at least 1.90m. he/the city gave me a fan as a present. then we went to the atami museum of art. it was a great building with a nice exhibition of french glass art etc. after that we went to yet another cd shop (hey, i`ve got to get rid of these yen somehow, i`m not exchanging them back!). the problem about japanese cd shops is, that it`s hard to find the artist you`re looking for. they`re sorted by japanese alphabet (a, i, o, e, u, ka, ki, ku, ke, ko, sa, shi, su, se, so, ...) and on the side of the cd`s the names are only given in katakana instead of the roman alphabet. if you can`t read katakana you`re definitely lost, if you can, it just takes damn long. and you have to be good at guessing. the mars volta are "za maasu uoruta". iron maiden are "aian meeden". i don`t even want to know what 65daysofstatic are. it`s a pain. in the evening we went for our last dinner here in atami. tomorrow i`ll leave for yokohama.

btw, w-kun (:P), how was the festival?