Feelin’ It . Somewhere in Yokohama

Day 8 . Wednesday . 7/15
Her bday and I was anxious for her to open her gifts. She liked them of course. At night we had dinner with her classmates. Had some great food and spent a lot of money. 26,114¥ ($275). 5 people, $275. Wow…

喜欢听嘻哈听这首吧 [if you like hip hop..]
I can only speak for the things that I’ve been through. Well, if you knew there was a motorcycle just sitting there rottin’ away, been there through countless thunderstorms, accumulating rust, on top of that parked in front of the foreign students dorm, most likely a foreigner with money to spend who just left it there when he went home, you heard through the grapevine it had been parked there for say 3 years. What to do?

回收利用 Make use of old things. I’m a big fan of that. Must come from my pops. Like riding on those country roads. I made a stool out of junk wood from the basement yesterday. It was interesting when my friend whose good at fixing motors came with a van to scoop the two-wheeler. It’s good to have friends here and there. My friend 小吴 (校警队之一) let them slide on their way out. 500元. do the math, man! Less than $75.

See the license plate. 新宿区 (Shinjuku), maybe i’ll go there while I’m in Japan next month. 太好玩儿！If you don’t look closely you won’t catch the little things. Ridin’..

I enjoy riding a motorcycle on a nice day, or night, listening to some hittin’ music, like that off The Last Kiss. Track 16 is fire too.

青春顾问 ★ youth counselors

The other day my friend 明亮 (Míng Liàng) came to me needing help wrapping a birthday gift for a girl he likes. It was funny when we came to my room with like 10 different kinds of wrapping paper. Aki and I helped him pick a design, wrap his gift and make a card too. He didn’t now what to write though. We gave him some advice and I told him when he thought of what he wanted to say to finish it later. His gift was very thoughtful. 20 of her favorite pens on her 20th birthday. Youth counselor. Again, the possibilities…

As long as we put our heart into what we do for others I think things should work out.

好爱国！(They love their country.) On the way back to catch the bus to school we walked from 爨底下 to the next village over. Chatted with some old folks who lived in a an old 四合院 where Andy Lau filmed a movie. Then we kept walking to the next town over.