So far, I’ve been lucky enough to have my friends
visit me and experience bits of Japan with them. On Sunday, I got to meet with
my friend from LA and her sister. They are Korean but they were born in the
U.S., so they took a trip to Korea for the first time and then they came to
Japan, which they enjoyed a lot! It was really nice seeing her because she
lives so far away from me that we can usually only talk online. We went to
Meiji Shrine because they had not yet visited any temples or shrines. After
that, we went to the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi. I have been there once before
but this time there was a different exhibition. It was about Japanese
architecture and woodwork, and it was really cool to see the model buildings;
they were so detailed! There was one model of a building that was short, but it
was really long, kind of like a rectangular tunnel. My friend told me to bend
down so my eye was level with it and look through it, so I did! However, this
other guy was doing the same thing on the other side so we ended up just
staring at each other through the model of the building and then we both
started laughing because it was so strange! After the museum, it became quite
cold and it was raining a lot by then, so we chose to eat tonkotsu ramen which
made us warm and happy, and made us forget the feeling of our wet socks and
shoes!
