Hi again!
So, On Saturday I left Hotani Nature farm and took a train into Osaka. There are many reasons why I left, but I think the main one is that I felt cooped up. Having a schedule means I could only do so much and so I decided to finally be off, and head into the big city. I love the city!
Getting to my hostel was like a nightmare. Literally, one of those dreams where your trying to get somewhere but it just keeps going and going and going, another train, another transfer- only your dragging a 60 pound bag behind you.
First off Nagao station, which I left from doesn't have an elevator. But thankfully, as I stood waiting for a flood of people to finish coming up the stairs from the train, contemplating lifting my bag, one of the guys who works there came over and took it down and then up the next flight of stairs and set it on the platform. Thank you!!! I had to transfer at Kyobashi station, but for some reason they kicked everyone off of the train and put us on another one stop before Kyobashi. Ok, that's weird.
At Kyobashi another random guy showed me where to go and then after I finally got on the right train (this station had elevators) it was off to Osaka station. I hate Osaka station. I
ts like the airport. It is HUGE and really confusing. Even asking people where to go, I still got lost and by the time I got to the Subway entrance I was soaking with sweat. The terrible thing about subways is that many of them, don't have elevators. So I had to haul my bag down one flight of stairs, but thankfully, yes you guessed it, a guy carried it down the next one. Once I got out of the Subway I had to find a phone to call the hostel. So I asked an old lady standing there, and she let me use her cellphone!!! instead of the pay phone, which was right there too turns out.
Then the girl from the hostel met me outside and I hauled my bag a little further to the hostel. But once we got to the hostel, we had to carry it up a flight of really narrow steep Japanese stairs. No one in Arizona is allowed to complain about steep stairs. The Japanese have the steepest stairs ever, there called "japanese stairs" You could probably look it up on youtube. That's where i first heard about them. Someone was videoing a traditional house and at the bottom of the stairs there were three holes in the wall (the wall is paper), because people had fell! So on Saturday night I went to a really beautiful cafe.It was Indian food. You walked down some stairs from the street and it had a courtyard with lots of plants. Inside had lots of Indian looking items and decorations. It was beautiful and a lot of the girls working there were wearing pretty clothes. Only problem, which is the case in most cafes, was that smoking is allowed. The girl at the hostel recommended it. Before i left I decided to ask the girls working there were a book store was. I had a map, but they went and got another one and then some how, they ended having a guy from another table come and help explain- because he just happened to know English!! Well, later I learned that he goes there frequently when he comes to Osaka, so that's why they asked him. He ended up just walking me there- which I'm really glad he did, because the bookstore, which was really big, was inside Osaka station- which I now hate. I probably could have made it to the station (I made it back!) but inside and around it is like a maze. After the bookstore I walked back to the hostel (its about 10 minutes). There are so many people. I mean it- its just like people everywhere! Think ants around their hole and that's what it looks like around Osaka station.
On Sunday I went to Church. I also attended the Philipino and Friends bible study afterwords. Then I headed back.
Today is Monday. I slept in. First time on the trip! 9 o clock!!!
I'm still so tired. I didn't know what to do. There was suppose to be a church picnic at Osaka-jo-koen, but since it was raining it was canceled. I decided to walk to Tenma station. Tenma, I have been to before. Is the longest shopping street in Osaka and I think in all of Japan. It goes on forever, and ever, and ever....I bought a lunch, went to the park anyways. Ate it in the rain under my umbrella, all alone. and took the train back to Osaka station and got lost again. I like to got to bookstores. I found one bookstore but it didn't have what I wanted. So I decided to head back to the one in Osaka station that I had been to before. Good luck with that. I found a map and asked the lady standing next to it where the bookstore was. That didn't really work. She snagged one of the many businessmen (and there are many, probably half the people around the station are businessmen- I think because it is a mager transfer point) and asked him where the bookstore was. Because he was heading that way and happened to speak perfect English, he just took me there. What are the odds (that he knew english)! He lived in Canada for a while and had been to Sanfransisco and stuff, so that's how he knows English. He said that yes One piece is one of his favorite manga (its the most popular one in Japan right now) and when I asked why (this is a mystery I have been trying to solve for over a year without reading the book), he said something to the extent of, "its really interesting and the main character Luffy is just really cool and strong you know." Uh-huh. I'll have to keep asking. oh, and guess what? He was 21! He doesn't have a job, he was going to interviews and stuff. So far he is the first person I have talked to on this whole trip who is closest to my age. That's right I've been hanging out with old people or people a least above 25. Except Alice she was 22.
Anyways, in Starbucks they have 4 sizes for drinks. Its crazy expensive, so I got a small. Well the small is like half the size of our small, so it was like really really small.
Oh, and one more thing, the comment that Anastasia wrote- take note , that is how you write comment!!! Its the perfect example!!! Thank you Anastasia!!
Right now I am about to go to sleep.
talk to you all later!
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