So my friend Nana from Nigeria wanted to get her hair braided and she found a store in Ozu to do it. But she had never been there before and she was a bit nervous to go by herself. So we left and then got lost in the subways. It turned out that we could have gone the usual way to Ozu but instead we ran around for an hour trying to find that particular station to come the back way. In the end we got there and everything went smoothly. And we decided to get Takoyaki (fried octopus) from a great little restaurant in Ozu.
In Ozu there are a bunch of people who line the streets giving out flyers. Usually as gaijin they don't bother giving them to us. When they do I usually accept out of pity but I have no interest in going to the shops. So that day when a woman approached us I accepted her flyer. AND SHE WHEN CRAZY. She drags us into through a shop then down a tiny hallway to her "store". We were seriously uncomfortable but tried to be polite and not just abruptly leaving. She tried to sell us everything from shoes to mini-skirts to fake Coach pursues. It took us a good twenty minutes to finally extract ourselves from her grasp. We basically ended up running from her the minute she would let us go. Moral of this story never take a flyer.
One thing I will say is that if you ever go to buy shoes in Nihon be prepared for the sales people to "help" you try them on. The first time it happened I nearly freaked out. I was with Nana and I just turned to her and said in English with a creepy smile on my face. "Get this guy away from my feet." Nana replies "What do you want me to do?" And with that smile still on, I said. "Knock over a stand, go into labor, ask him a question ANYHTING!" Of course she found this hilarious.
Once we got back to Nisshin, Kim joined us and we had a study night at my apartment. There is a cheap 105en sushi bar near Proxy so, around 8 or 9pm, we all decided to take a break from studying and go there and eat sushi. I had never been so this was a real treat for me. We had mochi (power green tea that you add hot water to).
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