Conclusion

I just handed in my last assignment of the semester today. Christ, four months has shot by amazingly fast. Pardon the cliché, but it honestly feel like only yesterday when I arrived back in Calgary and started school two days later. I've been in Japan withdrawl ever since. While I was happy to see everyone here again, things definitely felt different. By complete fluke, I started talking to this girl the other week who had been travelling around the world for the better part of the last four years. I asked her how she ever got accustomed to living back at home. In a very straightforward manner, she said she still hasn't and doubts that she will ever be able to get entirely back to the way it was. I definitely share the same opinion.
Don't get me wrong, I love my life and the friends and family that I am lucky enough to be around here. But at the same time, I also have a lot that I left behind in Japan which I miss everyday that I'm not there...
Its so true... International travel messes with your head.

This here is my last photo drop of my Japan trip. I'd like to dedicate it to Benny and the Jets... living the dream in the world's largest Chinatown.

August 29, 2006













Everybody loves trick monkeys
Odaiba.

































Fuji Television Building














Rock n' roll


















Shiori and Lisa and the ferris wheel















Future thesis of mine














Rainbow Bridge




























Dinner in Odaiba

August 30, 2006













Nikko














Nice little place. The scenery and temperature reminded me so much of Japser or Banff in the summer time with one important exception...


















Jasper or Banff do not have super rad wild monkeys

































This one here almost bit Lisa in the face.


















The monkeys run the show in Nikko. This one here is posting as lookout while his friend is in the store trying to steal things... and I'm not even joking. Moments later the theif monkey gets shooed out by the owner, flips over a bike and then runs into some narrow alley.

September 1, 2006
























Indirect rent payment as well as the greatest meal I have ever had.














I felt so out of place here. The average person in the room probably had the same amount of money in their pockets that I would ever dream of making in a year.














Elevator mirror fun














New York Bar. top floor














Myself, Saori, Yuya, Kazuki and Shiori














scotch.














About as content as I've ever been














The end of yet another all-nighter. After the Park Hyatt, we decided to continue on with the classiness and go shoot pool and darts and eat ramen. Top drawer.

September 2, 2006













Shinagawa Aquarium














penguin














Two reasons I wish I was in Tokyo right now.

Spetember 3, 2006













Last supper in Ebisu.

September 4, 2006













tv screen in front of my seat showing the sunrise outside.














Actual outside.


















In Vancouver. Lagged and confused







...all eyes on July. 184680分...