Karaoke and books!!!! XD

I went karaoke-ing yesterday...twas awesome. But as usual I dont have my camera at opportune moments so I failed to get any pics. It was really cool...this was one of the things Ive been wanting to do since Ive gotten to Japan, hit up a real karaoke bar. We ended up getting a room for about 2 hours and jammed. Nothing like some Utada Hikaru, Ulfuls, Michael Jackson and the song Mr. Roboto...It was great!

Ooh! Also, I managed to find the shosetsu (Japanese short novels) Ive been dying to get since like forever that night. For anyone who hasn't seen the anime ova R.O.D (Read or Die) its set in a parallel present where Great Britain has remained all powerful and has colonized a good half the world. The story is about a secret agent woman named Yomiko Readman whose working for the organization known as the British Library...she's a huge bookworm and a paper master (she has the ability to manipulate paper...she can block bullets with a single sheet and make razor sharp swords and other weapons/things out of paper). The OVA is pretty good but ever since I learned that it was actually a book first (and one that the author has yet to finish cause of writers block Id been wanting to get them. So yeah, I went to explore Book Off before meeting with people for Karaoke yesterday and I went to the shosetsu floor. I didnt think Id find it since I cant read half the characters on the shelves and I didnt know the publisher or author, but I wandered over to the fantasy section anyways to try. I found one of the volumes almost instantly and after asking for help, found the rest. I only managed to find 5 of the 11 books but I was still really happy to have found them at all...and for so cheap, about 300 yen each. I figured itd be a good investment and great way to improve my Japanese! Hopefully I'll find the rest while Im here XD.

Here's the show I was talkin bout'


This should help me improve my Japanese...


...but vol 1 will prob last me all semester while Im here XD



On another note, I really do think I have an awesome host family but Im a little bummed out that they havent really taken me sight seeing. I had hoped that from the beginning theyd take me to see places every other weekend (one of my friend's family does this for him). But yeah, I havent really seen any temples/sights so I guess Ill have to do most of my exploring of my own accord :P

Well...I guess its not too bad, tomorrow my host mom is taking me to her friend's house for tea ceremony stuff...but I still really want to see some temples ;D