day 32 - anniversary... mensiversary? (oh latin, where art thou)

05/07/07 24:23
one month ago i arrived in japan (has it really been that long?). today when i woke up the cold wasn`t any better. on the contrary, as i had feared, it had worsened and my throat really pained. so i gave in when they offered me some medicine (normally i try to avoid pills and such stuff whenever possible) and went back to sleep for some hours. i guess the medicine did help more or less, at least i didn`t really feel any pain throughout the day. as a replacement, i had a constant dizziness, nothing serious, but some kind of uneasy feeling. it reminded me of taking coffeine pills when you`re tired. you can`t sleep, but you`re not exactly awake...
anyway, we went for a bus tour through tokyo. the trip went to many of the places where i was two years ago on the one-day-trip to tokyo. first, the imperial palace and the park surrounding it, very nice. afterwards asakusa, a big temple with a huge shopping area around it. they sell all kind of merchandise including cool samurai swords, but i`m afraid i don`t have that much money left and getting the thing on the plane must be a bitch. apart from that we went to the television studios of nhk, one of japan`s biggest broadcasting companies. they had some nice exhibits and fake tv shows where you could be the actor etc. in the end we went on a boat ride on some river through tokyo (no idea what it`s called) and got back here. then we had dinner and right now i`m listening to the new bad religion album since i discovered that they have it on their myspace page in its entirety.
i`m actually looking forward to returning home, since the whole routine here is pretty tiresome. i think three and a half or four weeks would have been perfect, but maybe my spirits are just down because of the cold...
anyway, i`ll try to enjoy the final days here as all of this feels pretty much like a closing point to a big part of my life and once i get back i`ll have to start from the beginning, and i intend to change a few things. (dun-dun-dun)