Living for The Weekend

This weekend I took part in another event involving international culture and school children but this time the children were smaller. We played lots of games, but my favourite involved me and 3 other international students wearing a basket on our backs and running round to avoid the children who had to try and get paper balls into the basket. It was hilarious, especially when they got hold of the box and pulled me and one other student practically to the ground.

Another highlight was when I was teaching some phrases to introduce ones self in English- some people kept confusing "My name is" with "Mayonnaise" but the best one was when the children were all telling me their names and one boy said "My name is Unko" I was just as impressed by this as by all the others, so I said well done, you're very good etc, until the other adults and Japanese students were looking embarrassed and signalling me to move on. I later found out that he had introduced himself to me as "poo" but I just hadn't realised because it could just be a name or something. That was quite embarrassing but hilarious at the same time.

On Saturday night, me and a friend went to a place called Odaiba. This is a man made island in Tokyo Bay. When I hear the word man made it makes me think of something they did in the 1980s but it was actually made in the 1800s to fight off the invading Americans. It took us 2 hours to get there because I live right in the west and had to go accross the entire city to get there but it was worth it. We took a monorail across the Rainbow Bridge, which spans the bay and was expensive but really fun.
First thing you see when you get off the monorail is a mini version of the Statue of Liberty. The yellow spike behind the bridge is Tokyo Tower- something else I haven't really seen yet.

We had icecream- Green tea and vanilla- yummy.

We tried to get up a tall building called Fuji TV but it was closed because we got there too late- that means I have an excuse to go back.

There were lots of shops and restaurants. The restaurants looked really posh as they all had amazing views of the city. We saw some very posh receptions being held in some of them and I don't think they were in my price range.

There were so many boats arount it was really pretty- I quite want to take a tour on the bay at some point- I have a whole year so I probably will.
This one was my favourite photo from right down by the waterfront.