[mood] dazed
The Winter Break That Was:
Number of prefectures (or similar) visited: 3 (Tokyo, Kobe, Hiroshima)
Amount of money spent: Let's not go to that dark, dark place.
Number of train stations passed: About 500 (or more)
Number of trains ridden: About 50 (?)
Number of tickets bought: 5 (all for Y11500)
Number of tickets lost: 1 (fortunately on the last leg of the trip)
Number of stations escaped from due to loss of ticket: 1
Number of "disguises" donned to re-enter train stations escaped from: 1
Number of train stations spent the night in: 1
Number of post offices spent the night in: 2 (Thank you.)
Number of fukubukuros (these are gift bags, but you don't kow what's inside) bought: 1
Number of fukubukuro items regretted: 2 (hideous summer hat and pambahay-looking top)
Number of tabehoudais (eat-all-you-can) eaten at: 1 (Brazilian food, but mainly MEAT hot off the grill)
Number of times barfed due to over-consumption at said tabehoudai: 1 (fortunately was able to hold it in until I reached the washroom)
Number of JR drivers asked about the contents of their bags/suitcase thingies: 1
Number of JR drivers I have a picture with: 1
Number of cute arcade guys I have a picture with: 1
Number of cute museum guys ogled: 1
Number of times spoke fully in English (OK, with a bit of Tagalog) with friends to attract attention of cute guys: I lost count, but a lot.^_^
Number of cute high school guys in Nagasaki City: Just 2, apparently...
Number of postcards received: Just 1, but from my LMFC LM!^_^ No hint of, well, any emotion whatsoever but. Happy.
Number of purikura taken: 2
Number of zits accumulated on face due to wrecked body clock, wastrel lifestyle, etc.: 7
Number of pounds gained: Bleah
Number of songs almost-memorized: 1 (PLANETARIUM by Otsuka Ai)
Number of "music videos" (note the quotation marks...hee) shot: 1
Number of memories made: countless (naks :D)
[I have a feeling come spring break, it's going to be like this again. There's no way I'm spending Y40000 or more on airfare to Tokyo (or wherever).]
Really enjoyed myself despite all the pain of traveling by local train, unwashed nights in post offices/spent wandering city streets etc. I love it here, even with the expensive everything.:) Am looking forward to traveling again (Hokkaido! Okinawa! Osaka! and such), to all the things I can get to do here, to the remaining days left, but am also looking forward to going back home.
Basta, for 2006, no regrets. Wish me luck.:D