On my feet nonstop

Skip Thursday, just another usual day at work.

Friday - FIELD TRIP!!!! Went to Summerland, a waterpark in Tokyo. The bus ride over, i showed some of the kids the rubik's cube i brought and they LOVED it, they couldn't figure it out though, but it kept them quite on the bus ride. then they were like "Ms. Honeydew, we're starting to feel carsick" so i told them to give me back the cube and to close their eyes, rest them, and not think about anything. they soon fell asleep, so i was able to dose off during the last hour of the bus ride =)

we arrived at the park, and the directors got off the bus to figure out the tickets and stuff, leaving me alone with 7 kids. Well, right when the directors left, one girl stood up and said "Ms. Honeydew, I don't feel good." She looked like she was about to throw up, so I told her to get off the bus and find a bush. She just stood there, and literally right after I said that, she just threw up... all over the seat and the floor. I got all the kids off the bus, cuz the smell itself made me gag, and i told the bus driver. She got a bunch of paper towels and handed it to me. -.- I got back on the bus to clean it up, but it was more than i could take, and i had to fight really hard not to gag... maybe even throw up myself. that's one thing i can't deal w/.... bleh. Not to mention the kids waiting outside the bus wanted to go inside and saw all the other groups (from the other bus) go inside, so I was trying to manage the kids and deal w/ the puke. that was a bit hard. then the other bus driver, the cooler one, Take (ta-kay) came and took over the puke cleaning, THANK GOODNESS. 

the water park is HUGE but we only stayed in one small area of the indoor section (cuz there's an indoor and an outdoor area O.O) it was all shallow water, so we didn't have to worry too much about which kids could swim and which couldn't. We also took them to a waterslide which is pretty fun. The funny thing was that there was no lifeguard at the top of the slide. there was a lifeguard chair... but nobody there. so we regulated when the kids can go down and switched off. After lunch, we went to a place called "the thunder room", which is pretty much like a cove with small waterfalls and a HUGE hot tub, more like a hot pool. And every 10-15 mins or so the lights would dim, lights would flash like lightening, we'd hear thunder, and then it'd start to rain over a portion of the room. it was pretty cool and the children LOVED it. They all knocked out on the bus ride home, PERFECT.

That night we went to dinner. Found a cute lil soba restaurant, and had AMAZING food. (Stanley, i took pix for you and will post it on facebook soon) then we were walking around and ran into two random skateboarders. We stopped to talk to them, and it came up that you can walk around the streets w/ open alcohol and it's totally legal. So we went into the corner liquor store and some of us got something to drink just so we can walk around with it. we continued walking around a bit, sat on a bench on a corner of a street for a bit just talking, and then came back to the hotel. We were hanging out when around midnight, we got a call from a friend saying she's planning to go to the fish market and leaving at 5am O.o we decided to go, but we didn't exactly sleep. We ended up talking til close to 2am.... then had a sleepover so we wouldn't oversleep! haha no joke.

Saturday - Fish market 530 am- approx. 8 am. will post pictures later, it was pretty intense. Got back and took a nap, SOOO TIRED. Met up again to go to Shibuya. Walked around there, went to the busiest intersection of the world! i swear i thought i'd get lost cuz i blend in w/ all the other asians here and if i get lost it'd be that much harder for my friends to find me... who usually stick out, but in this crowd, ANYONE could get lost. Walked around and ended up at this shopping center. I wasn't planning on buying anything, but I found this pretty dress that's dark grey, typical shirley dress for $20. I was going to get it, but then my friends had me try on another dress that's a bit more outside my comfort zone. it has color and a bit of a pattern for the skirt part. anyway, that was $15, and it didn't look bad, it's just not something I'd normally wear. My friends convinced me to get it, so i did. I also found this cute little jacket for $20 that's grey and has a removable hood. That was more of a shirley buy, so i got both =D haha I plan to find the forever 21 in harajuku just to see what kind of stuff they have, if the prices are similar, etc. I wonder if they sell more japanese style clothes, or if it's like a duplicate in america. I will find out. =P

Tonight, going out to check out the night life in Shibuya, about to leave soon, so I kinda rushed through the last part of the blog. Pictures will be up later.