Snow in Tokyo and The Birth of Jacques-Alfred
Tokyo got some pretty crazy snow this year! I heard loads of different estimates, but suffice to say it was the best (heaviest) snow they’d had in ages!! Marlene and I planned to play in it on the Saturday (8th Feb) but we both decided against it, being mega tired and the weather being more of a slush storm than a nice snowy day! I felt bad about this on the day but was mega-pleased we saved our energy for the next day in the end. Saturday looked like this:
The Sunday was so much better; blue sky and thick snow. It was amazing! Marlene had never been in such thick snow either so it was good fun 🙂 We actually used this day as a chance for Marlene to learn how to use my DSLR, as she wanted to play around with it. So I have millions of photos to show you from this weekend! Our first look at the day from the dorms was promising:
It was really lovely to see the campus blanketed like that, I have really been able to see Tokyo in all the seasons! We got outside and Marlene discovered that Converse are not good snow shoes pretty fast >.< I luckily brought my walking boots from England so I had warm feet until the afternoon when they finally gave out (I hadn’t waterproofed them recently it seemed!) We played in the field bit for about an hour before we moved on to making our own adorable snowman! We climbed a mini hill, did some rolling in the snow, had a snowfight and then got down to business!
After literally rolly-pollying down the hill and throwing snow at each other, it was snowman time!! Marlene was amazed that the rolly-ball method actually works so we made him via that. At first he looked like an Alfred so we named him that, but as soon as we put his hat on, he became French! Hence, Jacques-Alfred. He went from cute to cuter and we were very happy with him.
At about 12.30 we finished our masterpiece and wanted to head back to the dorm to pick up some things for a trip to a yummy cafe that Marlene had told me about. Needless to say we found lots of fun things on the way!
We went first to Burger King; we were so hungry! They’d changed the chip styles too, they were amazinggggg. Afterwards we went to look at adorable things and take adorable pictures; no good day is complete without purikura!! What will I do without it in England?!?! And finally we gorged ourselves on matcha desserts. It was glorious.
We sat in that place for so long! It was cool, the first time Marlene and I had hung out for so long and just chatted away! After our food babies had finally dissapated somewhat, we headed back to TUFS and went to check on our little guy; he’d melted! Not completely but he no longer had much of a face and some people had clearly had a go at him 😦 So we patched him up and headed home. There was a gorgeous sunset to finish the day!
The next day after (our last!) class, we went back to visit J-A but someone had been round the night before and kicked all the heads off all the snowmen!! We were very sad. But with our friend Pat’s help, we remodelled him. We also played a made-up-on-the-spot game that was something like rounders/baseball with dodgeball. That was good fun! And of course the mandatory snowball fight, which we convinced Michael to join in on and all went after him ‘cos we’re mean like that! But he gave as good as he got of course!
I may also have run into J-A and knocked him over for good, so no one else could 😛 It was a really fun weekend! Especially good as it was a really fun memory to leave Japan on for my 5 week trip to England! Coming soon 😛
Maisy In Japan 