**J-Pan**

We got to Japan 2 days after China, we were all so exhausted and I was sick.  I did nothing for the 2 days on the boat except I went to my classes.  We went to Hiroshima the first day.  It was a very intense museum and really hit hard.  They had burnt skin and finger nails, in a display box, of a child.  They told a lot about all the kids that were killed and even had some of the uniforms that were on them.  There was actually hair in a box too.  Every mayor of Hiroshima that has been in office since the atomic bomb writes a letter every month to the countries that still have nuclear weapons.  The mayor will continue to do so until all nuclear weapons are gone.  Outside of the museum is a flame that burns all day every day.  The flame will never stop burning until nuclear weapons are gone.  So there was no where to eat around our boat and the taxis cost a million dollars so we went to the Hyatt.  A $50 buffet later made us wanna shoot ourselves!  But we did steal a good 2 bags of m&ms.  They shouldn’t leave that kind of stuff outside of the ice cream if they don’t want it gone.  So Jess and I each got a bowl full, put it in a napkin and went to the boat =)
This morning we were SUPPOSED to leave at 9:00.  Well our dumbass neighbors (Emily and Natalie) went out the night before and didn’t wake up until about 10 min before we were leaving and they hadn’t packed yet.  Megan and Jess wanted to leave without them but we waited and I just made fun of them the whole time, I think they were still drunk.  We finally got tickets for the train to go to Tokyo and left.  Well I had to buy Emily and me a ticket because her card wouldn’t work at the ATM.  I ended up buying reserved seat tickets which are apparently a million dollars more than the others!  Whatever, we just slept.  Jess and Megan are obsessed with Hard Rock so we had to go.  Another $50 down and we went and tried to find the place we were staying.  Not one person knew where it was and the addresses are so weird, but we finally figured it out!  We made a reservation for 2 so we had to sneak the other girls in!  Well this place ended up being apartments that are for like week or month leases, but I got a promotion and got it for two nights!  It was amazing!  It was a studio apartment with a kitchen, washer and dryer and the most confusing light switches ever.  I swear these people are so high tech it’s annoying because we can’t work any of it!  Who turns on the shower with a button on the wall??  The girls didn’t end up having to sneak in which was nice but we had to buzz them in every time!  Well this stupid girl was with us and had to talk to every damn person she saw and then ask them where we should go and then we had to go where they said to go.  OMG I wanted to blow my brains out.  She made us go to some stupid ass restaurant where Megan and Emily got 5 carrot sticks for $10!  Hahaha  Jess and I split sushi and had to sit at our own table and were the most obnoxious people ever.  We were so pissed at that stupid girl that we wanted to ruin her life.  And first of all, she wasn’t even invited, her friends ditched her (I know why), and she knew Emily cause they are sorority sisters but hadn’t talked to her the whole semester until now.  We wanted to go out after dinner so started walking down the street.  The bars in J-Pan are really weird.  You almost have to be invited into the clubs and the people just sat outside waiting for people to come.  So we get to a bar and he says we will get our first round free.  So he calls someone, takes us up an elevator and into a “Sexy show.”  All the girls were in crazy prostitute clothes and just started laughing.  We left right when we saw the girls and it basically another stupid American moment.  We went to a club called Lime.  No one was there.  We talked to 2 old guys who are from the US and they gave us a few places/things to do.  While stupid girl goes off with some guy and he also gives her stuff to do, so we HAVE to do it.  She ended up doing those things alone.  He was also supposed to call her to go to dinner the last night and he didn’t.  haha
We went to the biggest ferris wheel in the world and the Toyota show room.  We rode in smart cars.  They just took us around some track and it was weird.  I tried to hold the steering wheel straight as it was turning, just to see what happens, but I got to scared and didn’t really want to buy a car.  They have some weird looking cars that will get to America in like 15 years.  I never want to drive any of them!  They had some sweet ass race cars and go karts and I really wanted one!  We went to dinner at a restaurant that one of the guys told us was a haunted house.  But it was more of creepy jail.  It was in the basement of a building.  There was not much light either.  The waitress put Emily and I in handcuffs and took us to our “cell.”  There were individual cells for each group and it had a sliding metal door, like jail.  They were all dressed in prison outfits.  It was weird but a lot of fun!  We got the weirdest drinks ever!  Jess and I shared one and it was good and just had a fake light up ice cube in it, but Megan and Natalie’s was so weird!  They got a beaker with alcohol on the bottom and then cotton candy was on the top.  They got another glass of juice or something that they had to poor over the cotton candy!  It was really good but so weird!  That other thing got a drink with a needle thingy in it and it was filled with jelly and she had to squeeze it into her drink.  We tried to go out again this night but there was nothing going on!  We took a cab back to the place we were at the night before but it was dumb so Emily, girl and I went home and I talked on the internet all night!  =)
We went to a street famous for its shopping.  It wasn’t very impressive except for the most killer Nike’s ever.  So I left my life savings at that store.  Jess, Megan and I had to go to Yokohoma because they made me volunteer to show some Japanese students around the boat.  Turns out the students were 90 years old.  Ugh.
We went to Mt. Fuji the last day and it was snowing!!  It was so cold and I had nothing to wear.  My wonderful mother yelled at me for packing a jacket and gloves and stuff.  Yeah.  We didn’t go to the top but whatever.  Dad, you’ll be happy to know Megan, Jess and I did the KSU in front of it because we were both wearing K-State shirts and found it necessary.  We went on some cable car thing, I don’t know what we were supposed to do but I got some candy.  We went on a 15 min boat ride (what’s the point?) on some lake.  The lake was actually really pretty!  Anyways this was a day of sleeping on a bus.  We were on the bus more than half the day!  We got back late, Japan customs are so strict so we had to stand there forever!