Tuesday was our one designated "free day", where we had nothing scheduled to do. No orientations, no field trips, not a damn thing. As a result, a few of us saw this as a perfect opportunity to find out what the beaches were like here in Japan. Hairy Max (as opposed to Baggage Max) got the directions from our professor to Enoshima, an island that also houses a few public beaches. So pretty much the entire afternoon was spent there, granting us time in the morning to relax and sleep in. Needless to say, this was MUCH appreciated, after having raced and raced and raced without stopping ever.
The trip to the beach took about 40 minutes, but we got to take a monorail there! So exciting. It was definitely different than normal JR trains, for example. From the station, we didn't really have any idea where to walk to... so we picked a direction other people were walking in and just followed. Screw it. So eventually we reached the beach and got to see the wonderful dirty black sand of Japan. No joke, this country is the cleanest I have ever seen of any place ever, but the beach was easily the most dirty of anywhere. I couldn't figure it out. Japan has basically no trash cans ANYWHERE, but it's clean enough to eat off of. The beach just seemed like a dump comparatively, though it's still nowhere near as bad as CA beaches (except maybe Corona Del Mar *_*).
The four of us who went got to play frisbee (kinda), body surf, and a little bit of the ol' Marco Polo before we left. We also took a really neat perspective picture that I'll have to snag off of someone's camera sometime. You'll see. It's cool, I promise. It (pleasantly) surprised me that for the second time on this trip, I've been referred to as "surprisingly buff". Of course buff is not what I'm completely going for, but "fit" is definitely a goal of mine. Looking healthy and without too much excess.
After the beach, we went nearby to the First Kitchen, some kind of burger joint franchise that sold fancy burgers and fancy fries. I had a bacon cheese and egg burger that came with ketchup, mayo, and onions (ickk). I also got an order of fries that were put in a bag with consomme powder. It's almost like shake and bake in that you close up the bag and shake it all up so the seasoning gets on all the fries. It's pretty cool actually and tasted good. I was happy. Even if my bath towel does a crappy job of drying, so I was pretty wet all over sitting in the restaurant.
The rest of the day was spent just relaxing, so nothing interesting to report on there. Catching up on blog entries and trying to do my damn homework due the next day, which I still don't feel like I did properly. Booo. Oh well, first assignment, no biggie. Go apathy!
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