you walked into my house last night

Morning everyone! Robson here, it's 8.27am on a dreary morning in Tokyo. I'm currently trying to write some more of this presentation I have to give on tuesday, however the lovely Sally reminded me of my blog duties last night and I do think this is more important right now!
So whats been occurin since we last updated you? This week has been quite busy on the homework front, but some more life sorting has been done. Earlier in the week we were just hanging about in Shibuya, bit of shopping, bit of restaurant-ing, nothing very exciting to report.. we bumped into our friend Alex though in Shibuya, why do we keep doing this here?! Who was out for a trip round with his Japanese host family. Had a nice chat to them! On tuesday I also went for lunch with my friend Axel, slightly questionable noodle bar but again, a nice chat!
On Wednesday (I don't have classes until 1pm) I went to register for the gym! Off I trotted, eager as anything, ended up getting there before it opened....and was then told that I had to trek to the opposite side of the OTHER campus to have a sticker put on the back of my student id card. As I said, I was quite eager this particular morning so thought I'd jog it, as I was in my running kit (yes the lycra get up, Redmile residents are familiar with this). Had a handbag and a brolly with me, but that didn't pose too much of a problem. However, a newly acquired stalker did. I won't go into all the details because the encounter was unfortunately quite long, ask me about it later. Anyway the rest of the day was a success, sticker received, gym registered for. I was the only girl in the gym. Kijun.
Yesterday I had a day off, for the anniversary of the founding of the university I think? Had a bit of a lie in, did some homework ready for today, and then went shopping down a very wet and cold Omotesando (big road, lots of shops, home to a big Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, RL, Gucci, just loads) and ended up with a couple of tops from.........Gap. Pretty nice ones though! Met up with Jerome in the evening, we went to Ikebukuro. We keep mentioning the names of these places, but don't really explain them properly, do we? IkeB is sort of half way in between Jerome's and mine. There's a big Seibu department store, and an area with shops, restaurants etc, but its not massively exciting. Just handy as somewhere to meet and get some food if we can't be bothered to go a bit further. So last night, found this little Japanese restaurant that looked ok (not Dipper Dan's, as Mum feared, don't worry). Turned out to be a bit weird, thank god we were brought an english menu, we almost ended up with a hot pot of 'Giblets' into which we were supposed to chuck veg and noodles. Didn't fancy that, or fried Whale for that matter, so asked for some safer options of chicken on skewers. Literally one skewer arrived, so we ordered fishcakes as well (not great, we decided very 'Japanese tasting') and some noodle dish with veg. It was alright, but we probs won't be going back.......
This weekend we've got a few plans, it's Jerome's doss day today so not sure what she's up to, she finishes at 12, I've got TV news class at 10.40, then double grammar after lunch (3 hours worth!!) so will finish at 4.15 today. Tomorrow we are probably going to a BBQ in the day, then out for our friend Miria's birthday tomorrow night. We really want to look at Ebisu, supposed to be really nice, so will probably head there on Sunday for the day. Expect photos from all this! We're getting our Halloween costumes up and running too, and thinking about doing our own Bonfire night celebrations! (How would you cook jacket potatoes and beans on a hob though? Would making a bonfire in Japan be offensive? -Probably.) Right, not long til I need to get ready so will leave you with a pic or two, more exciting news coming soon, promise!!!