technical difficulties

I worked hard on the batch of photos from my homestay weekend.

And Flickr *refuses* to upload them. This makes me hate our super security-laden Internet connection even more.

So here are some pictures of an impromptu trip to Sakae in Nagoya. I love clothes shopping in Japan, but it's hard to find stuff that fits well.

Sakae is so full of good shops (shopping at Oasis 21 is a must) and restaurants, I really wish that Chubu was closer to it.

Here are some pictures from today, courtesy of my camera phone:

Stephanie and Megan went to a salon, which was really cool to see.
I didn't get my hair cut. I wanted to get a picture of Steph's stylist (not pictured
because he had a really crazy hairdo. All but one of the stylists was male, but
they all dressed really cute and snappy.

Part one of lunch at a place called Canaria. Salad, soup and coffee!
All of it was really good, too.

PASTA! A tomato sauce with some tuna on it. Very interesting and tasty.

I tried to get a picture of Canaria's rocking interior, but camera
phones only go so far. I guess I'll just have to go back ^_~

This was in the fitting rooms of one of a few of the stores I went to.
わからない〜〜〜〜
(wakaranai~~~~)
*trans.: I don't get it.*
But I watched Lucky Number Slevin recently, and that was definitely
the first thing this reminded me of. Creeeeeepy.

This is a coat I bought last week at Honey's. It's reversible and very warm.





And then.......

here's my haul from today

Yes, I've found the PokeMon store. I bought the stuffed Pikachu
with part of my cell phone rebate. The blue card in the bottom corner
was a free gift I got with my purchase. Probably because I'm a foreigner.
I'm definitely keeping that cute bag, too. My room key is also pictured
because I bought a Stitch key cover for it a few weeks ago at the dollar store.
In Japan, you can decorate anything to be cute. You just have to pay a bit. ^_~
The white "Free Diary" book that you can kind of see behind Pikachu
is my planner (also a dollar store purchase).

Total gigabyte usage of pictures/video
I've taken in Japan to date: 12.39 GB

Still trying to get Flickr to upload. I'll be so sad if it doesn't.