Misc Orders of Business: Questions aka M.O.B Questions

To any and all my readers (from now to perpetuity):

I'd just like to thank you for making it this far. I know I tend to get a bit verbose and detailed, but sometimes I feel that the little things help make the large things so much more interesting. It also provides you with a more immersive and entertaining story, wouldn't you agree? Since my first few days in Japan were so memorable I felt the need to include as much detail and depth as possible, mostly for my own sake. From here on out the posts should be shorter and fewer multi-parted posts. However, I will try to make sure that the quality (or lack thereof) remains!

EP asked me, in reference to Jeez, Last Night was Real?! Part II, if Japan's rails and streets were as confusing as Boston, (EP and myself spent roughly 6 days lost in Boston). In short, yes and no :D. You see, for me, the hardest part of navigating Japan is that I'm illiterate in the Japanese writing forms. Everything (at least on my route to school) is very much labeled with signs and directions. I haven't yet explored much of Tokyo except a bit of the area surrounding Shinjuku station (Shinkuku Station is something in the range of a block in size and beyond that it has many floors). So in that way, it is harder than Boston. However Boston is hard to navigate even for those native to the English language. The lack of signs, the fact that 4 rights somehow make a hexagon (I know hex means six folks), and the various other problems with Boston's design make it much harder to navigate. I mean, if its hard for a native to navigate, can you imagine a foreigner trying to find the Museum of Fine Art? Boston in many ways reminds me of a painting. A painting Stewie Griffin once called "Crazy Stairs"(pictured above). Now of course, all of us college folk know that this painting is called Relativity. But still, "Crazy Stairs" does seem appropriate. Okay, so I didn't know the name of the painting before I Googled it a second ago, but the Internet is wonderful because anyone can pretend to be smarter than they truly are, BEHOLD THE INTERNET! But again, I digress...

So as always, thanks to EP for her questions and comments and thanks to you for reading. If any of you readers our there have questions, feel free to leave comments for me and I'll try to respond in my next M.O.B Questions!

Gambatte

-DPN