Me and my hose.....

Ok day two of the blog catch up medley.

On Sunday (one day after arriving) we went to the earthquake simulator building, where you can experience and find out what to do in an earthquake. We were taken there by Mai ans Satomi, two people we had been introduced to by Yuki (our Tokyo rep) they were really friendly and showed us round Tokyo for the first few days, pretty much babysitters :p.

Anyway back to what we did, we were talked at in Japanese for what seemed like hours before we were led into the simulation room, basically a mock japanese kitchen/dining room. We sat down at the table with conveniently placed pillows right infront of us, then we felt a little tremor that shook the room, at once we all jumped under tthe table pillows in tow and proceeded to cower under the table as what seemed like the biggest earthquake was going on around us.

After the excitement of the earthquake simulator we ventured out for a night on the town, which ended up with us at a kareoke superstore. In Japan the practice seems to be you book a room (basically a bench table and kareoke machine), pay a set rate after 11pm and just sing until 5am, when informed that we could spend 6 hours doing this we thought it to be an impossible task. Little did we know it is shockingly easy to sing for 6 hours, by the time 5am rolled around we still had lists and lists of potential songs which would have to wait till next time. (Luke if you`re reading just wait till you come it will be Michael Jackson heaven)

Going to bed at 5am seemed to do wonders for our jet lag and so we were fresh and ready to depart for Junten highschool the next day!