things are never what it looks like.

im currently in japan. and i was in a car and i looked out of the window. cause, well, you know, theres nothing else to do in a car besides looking out of the window, when you're not the one driving. anywho, i kinda felt weird, or like different seeing the cars pass by, but i didnt know what it was. then later, i realized that it was because of this:

the cabs in japan are almost always black, like funeral cars. never bright yellow like it is in taiwan. so in addition to all the personal cars being in different shades of white/black, the cabs were black as well, whereas, in taiwan, basically 1 out of 5 cars that pass by are cabs, hence the colours added to the streets. i felt a little miserable, looking at the cars cause i felt like it was too dark and there wasn't anything to look forward to.

yeah, im definitely dreading moving back.

one good side is that the houses that we were looking at had walls like this:

and it's like paper but much harder. and not as easily ripped as paper. and it's sort of like what a pull buoy's made out of, you know, not hard but not soft material... i honestly dont know what it is. but yeah. and it was sort of smooth but a little bumpy, like a white board that hasnt been erased completely and still has the white board marker marks or the eraser crumbs. anywho, because of that texture, i can put posters & photos up there with some tape and it'll stay, and when i peel it off, the paint wont, like it did in my taiwan house. im somewhat excited about that. cause i have a collection of photos that need to be printed out and be put up on my wall, and johnlee's family is giving me a poster so im gonna put that up too.



on a separate note:
i was talking to brian and i realized that i havent been to the water park since the end of grade 7, which makes me more excited about going there on the 19th with my lovely swimmers :)