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19/03 shopping and taco Tuesday

 On Tuesday, one of my colleagues invited me to go shopping. Tammy is one of the teachers in grade 2, she's Australian and absolutely amazing. She asked me to go shopping with her so naturally I agreed. We met at 3p.m. in Harajuku, her favourite neigborhood in Tokyo. I had never heard of Harajuku before but now that I've been there it is easily one of my favourite neigborhoods in Tokyo too. We did some shopping in Takeshita street (Tammy told me most aussies call this 'take a shit street' 😂) and tried strawberry Tanghulu. (sugar coated strawberries) It was so good! 




After, we went to get a coffee at this rooftop Starbucks with a lovely garden. One of Tammy's best friends Kieran came over. He is actually one of the teachers in grade 4. (nextdoor to where I am) We started walking again and ran in to a google advertisement where you could get pictures taken, so ofcourse Tammy and I went in for a little photoshoot. 

Kieran loves a drink so we got some lemon sours from 7/11 and went to the rooftop park in Shibuya where I had been before. We just talked, drank and laughed, it was really nice. Their friend Patrick also joined us (he is a teacher at the other Aoba campus) and we went to another rooftop for 'taco tuesday'. I didn't really know what to expect but ran into an amazing rooftop pop-up with a dj playing some music, people dancing, talking, eating tacos and drinking tequila. We got some food and drinks (if you know me you already know I spilled my tequila sunrise 😥 ) 


We talked with some people who were there and I chatted with the person who organised taco tuesday for a bit. I asked him how he got to doing this and he said 'I felt lonely and overwelmed in a big city and I love tacos and tequila, so I started inviting the few people I knew and they started inviting people too.' And I absolutely loved that! It used to be every week but he couldn't cope with being so hungover on wednesday every week so he changed it to every couple weeks 😂

When we descided to get going, Tammy was super tired and wanted to go home. Kieran really wanted to go to some rock bar that was his absolute favourite place in Shibuya so me and Patrick just went with him. It was nice to see but not really my style haha. We took the last metro home, I had a late night meal and went to bed. Another great day tomorrow! 




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  1. Mamasa(rah)24 maart 2024 om 02:41

    4 teachers at Taco Tuesday. Sounds like the beginning of a story worth telling... 😉

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