True Friendship...
Hey everyone. I'm sorry I haven't posted recently. Lots of things kept me from doing so. For a general update, I went to Kyoto finally for two weeks with Holly, and then I came back and recently finished my first week of school. My teachers are nice, but this semester is quite literally twice the work of last semester, so my free time is nil. As for Kyoto, it was really amazing, but I doubt I'll update about it here, since it would be several posts I likely won't have time to write. I took about 800 pictures, and am glad we forked over the cash for a digital before I left, otherwise we'd be spending well over that in film developing fees.
Anyway, even though Kyoto is too immens to write about, I can write about today. It was extremely interesting because I made one plan. By coincidence, a San Francisco friend (whom I call Yui) that I had met over the Internet just got to Japan in January. Yui and I were into a few of the same anime titles and into some of the same Japanese music, but we didn't get too much time to talk since she wasn't often online. But, we had a nice burst of communication recently and decided to meet today.
We met at Studio Alta around 12:25. At that time, I confess, a lot of things were going through my head. What if she's this, or what if she's that... I suppose it's what always happens when you meet someone you don't talk to often, yet you somehow trust implicitly. I had something similar when Rika was going to visit, but we had shared literally hundreds of conversations before then, so it was somewhat different. I was about to meet someone that could literally be anyone. She could have any series of traits or qualities that never came out in the little conversing we had done before.
Anyway, we had planned to meet for karaoke and maybe lunch, so I figured that train time aside, we'd hang out for a few hours, and I'd be back early today. At 10:30 -- ten hours later -- I was in Shinjuku station catching the train home. Needless to say, it worked out very well. After meeting her, we went to karaoke for two hours (hitting all the X and Tokyo Babylon titles we could find), went to Book-Off, hit Jonathan's (Japanese family restaurant kind of like Denny's but with Japanese cuisine) for lunch, went off to Ikebukuro for a few hours, went to the Shinjuku Municipal Government Building, stopped by Saizeriya for a nice dinner and an equally nice conversation, and then returned to Shinjuku Station and each went our separate ways.
During those ten hours -- aside from the two we spent singing -- we talked about a variety of things, which I won't bother to list here, as that will only confuse people and won't serve well to emphasize my point. We both knew that we were into the same anime and the same music, but we didn't realize we had similar further interests. It was amazing being able to carry on what was basically an eight-hour-conversation with someone I'd never really ever "met" before, or at least in real life. What I guess I mean to say is that we synched incredibly well. There was never a dull point in the conversation, which was so enthralling that we often tangented off one thing to another, so I'm sure that out of the bazillion things we talked about, not a single one was fully covered. I don't know if any of you have ever had a similar experience, but if you ever have the chance to, take it. It's great to meet someone you really synch with well and then be able to sit back and watch that synching just play out.
We both had an extremely wonderful time, and if it wasn't before, it is definitely the start of a beautiful friendship. I just feel bad that when we get home from Japan, she'll still be on the other side of the country. Then again, I already have friends to visit there at some point, so I suppose I can visit her then too! Anyway, we decided definitely against wasting the couple months we still have to hang out while I'm here (since I leave first), so we'll be getting together again fairly soon, I'm sure. I don't really know what I can say about today that I haven't said yet, aside from that I feel really really happy. And after recieving some extremely good (but confidential) news about a friend a couple days ago, this has become a really great weekend and a nice source of happiness for me.
Anyway, even though Kyoto is too immens to write about, I can write about today. It was extremely interesting because I made one plan. By coincidence, a San Francisco friend (whom I call Yui) that I had met over the Internet just got to Japan in January. Yui and I were into a few of the same anime titles and into some of the same Japanese music, but we didn't get too much time to talk since she wasn't often online. But, we had a nice burst of communication recently and decided to meet today.
We met at Studio Alta around 12:25. At that time, I confess, a lot of things were going through my head. What if she's this, or what if she's that... I suppose it's what always happens when you meet someone you don't talk to often, yet you somehow trust implicitly. I had something similar when Rika was going to visit, but we had shared literally hundreds of conversations before then, so it was somewhat different. I was about to meet someone that could literally be anyone. She could have any series of traits or qualities that never came out in the little conversing we had done before.
Anyway, we had planned to meet for karaoke and maybe lunch, so I figured that train time aside, we'd hang out for a few hours, and I'd be back early today. At 10:30 -- ten hours later -- I was in Shinjuku station catching the train home. Needless to say, it worked out very well. After meeting her, we went to karaoke for two hours (hitting all the X and Tokyo Babylon titles we could find), went to Book-Off, hit Jonathan's (Japanese family restaurant kind of like Denny's but with Japanese cuisine) for lunch, went off to Ikebukuro for a few hours, went to the Shinjuku Municipal Government Building, stopped by Saizeriya for a nice dinner and an equally nice conversation, and then returned to Shinjuku Station and each went our separate ways.
During those ten hours -- aside from the two we spent singing -- we talked about a variety of things, which I won't bother to list here, as that will only confuse people and won't serve well to emphasize my point. We both knew that we were into the same anime and the same music, but we didn't realize we had similar further interests. It was amazing being able to carry on what was basically an eight-hour-conversation with someone I'd never really ever "met" before, or at least in real life. What I guess I mean to say is that we synched incredibly well. There was never a dull point in the conversation, which was so enthralling that we often tangented off one thing to another, so I'm sure that out of the bazillion things we talked about, not a single one was fully covered. I don't know if any of you have ever had a similar experience, but if you ever have the chance to, take it. It's great to meet someone you really synch with well and then be able to sit back and watch that synching just play out.
We both had an extremely wonderful time, and if it wasn't before, it is definitely the start of a beautiful friendship. I just feel bad that when we get home from Japan, she'll still be on the other side of the country. Then again, I already have friends to visit there at some point, so I suppose I can visit her then too! Anyway, we decided definitely against wasting the couple months we still have to hang out while I'm here (since I leave first), so we'll be getting together again fairly soon, I'm sure. I don't really know what I can say about today that I haven't said yet, aside from that I feel really really happy. And after recieving some extremely good (but confidential) news about a friend a couple days ago, this has become a really great weekend and a nice source of happiness for me.
posted by Me at 12:04 PM
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