Day 6 "Japanese heat"

By day 6 it started to get really hot and I started to get pretty homesick.  Japan has been kind to me but I'm missing home and I'm missing free internet.  Japan has been stingy with their internet.  You'd think that in this country there would be free wireless internet everywhere.  I mean really.  Just think if there was free wireless internet at any given time someone would be downloading porn and the information would be traveling through your body.  Yup someone's porn is going through your body before it's reassembled onto their computer.  Feel kind of dirty about that don't you?  Don't worry computer viruses don't quite translate into an STD when passing through a human body.

But I'm getting off topic...

See this?

This is not entirely an unusual sight.  Actually a big Chinese/American guy squatting on a rock is an unusual sight but the small tiny handkerchief isn't.  Can you see it?  It's hard to see because is enveloped by the massiveness of... well, me.  But it's a good decent size for the Japanese, it's just that, I'm not the size of the Japanese.

I actually bought this at one of the many tourist shops in Japan.  The one I bought this at was particular in that they gave us a "no tax" card.  I felt special until I realized that we haven't really been charged tax anywhere else.  Whatever price was one the display was the price we paid.  Oh those crafty Japanese.  In any case I bought this because that particular shop put on a kimono fashion show and I felt sorry for my mom who kept wiping the gallons of sweat leaving my body.

See that?

That's some love right there.  You aren't just going to go up to anybody and say "Oh my GOD you're sweating so horribly!  How can you have that much water in your body?  That's just disgusting and amazing at the same time.  Come here let me get all that crap off you" in Chinese while in Japan.  Yeah, it takes a special someone to say that.

Consequently I had to squat down so she could reach.  Finally I decided to give both my knees and my mom a break so I got me my very own Japanese mini towel.  I don't what the Japanese use it for since it seems like they never sweat.  I'm probably bastardizing their culture just by wiping my brow with it... Oh well, they only come up to my navel, offending a couple here and there should be no problem.

Did I mention that there were kimonos? 

Oh yea the little shopping place also put on a kimono fashion show.  I guess the point of which would be to interest you into buying some kimonos.  It could also be for cultural education but come on, do you really think they'll put on a show costing actual money just for our cultural education?  No, I don't think so.  It just so happened that this place did in fact sell kimonos.  Here's me molestering one of the models.  See, in Japan there are women called "Geisha's."  These Geishas are heavily cloaked in make up and wear really un comfortable shoes.  It is kind of like the west coast of America only the people are wearing robes.  This model is not a Geisha.  At least, it's not a real Geisha, it's a model, I'm mean a dummy, I mean a fake, I mean... well, it's not a real person.  I didn't have the heart to go and molester a real person with a kimono on for a picture.  But this mannequin is a pretty damn realistic one don't you think?