Back to posting - my week before going to Korea

Hi guys. Well, as you have noticed, I haven't been very active on my blog during the last weeks. This is not because I didn't want to or had nothing to tell, but mainly because I have been quite busy. So I'll try to remember everything I wanted to tell you guys.

The week before I left to Korea, the weather became really hot! Mushi-atsui, as you'd  say in Japanese. It's very hot and humid and you're covered in this thin layer of sweat all over within minutes of leaving any air-conditioned place... It's very hard to motivate yourself to go out in this weather, but luckily, I've still been meeting with friends quite a bit. I went to walk around Tokyo Dome with a Nepalese friend. I went to the 'Design Festa Gallery' (small art gallery for students) in Harajuku with Takeo-san. She was working in the hostel where I stayed at during the month of June. The gallery was great, the building was very original as well, and I regret not taking any pictures... They have this fun original café and Okonomiyaki and Monjayaki restaurant in the gallery so we decided to have lunch there:

 Followed by shaved ice, which was great considering the hot weather:

I went to a small Edo museum nearby the shared house I'm living in. The aim of this Edo museum is to give you and idea of what a town looked like during the Edo-period. So, you basically enter a small fisher's town during the Edo period and you can walk into the town, enter the houses, check out all the material and tools they had back then. Herewith a small overview:

The quality of the pictures isn't very good, I'm sorry. It was a little dark and my phone has no flash.
So what else... I went to have sushi with some people from the guesthouse. The sushi was delicious and we had a lot of fun:

From left to right, China, HongKong and Germany. France was sitting beside me, so he's not on the picture. Xue-Yao (China) is my roommate. I'm glad because we really get along. She is studying in Germany, Aachen (yep, right by the Belgian border) and is doing an internship here, in Tokyo. She's going back to Germany towards the end of September.

I went to a concert of a Canadian-Japanese band I really like with France and France's Japanese girlfriend.  It was great!!! I have no pictures for you though... (They were not allowed). The band is composed of a Japanese drummer, a Japanese bassist and the guitar and vocals are done by two Canadian brothers who have both been living in Japan for around 10 years I think. Most of their songs are in Japanese but often contain some English (like ALL Japanese songs). They have a few songs in English as well though. I think France and me were the only foreigners in the crowed, which consisted of people of all ages and styles. The dynamics were great :-)

On the night before going to Korea, France had his going away party. He's a great cook, so he cooked some traditional Japanese dishes for us and then we left to a live house. I liked all the bands that played, even though they all had different genres. We had a lot of fun! Some of the guys went Karaoke-ing after that, but I went to bed because I still had to pack and get ready for my trip to Pusan, Korea.

I'm pretty sure I forgot to tell you about some things I originally wanted to mention, but I think this is enough for this post.