Hiroo

I've found another place that i can love to hate in Tokyo. It's called Hiroo and it's absolutely crawling with middle aged american, 2.4 children families. The husbands all looked like they work in banks and are treating their time in Japan as just another penance on the road to retirement. Horrific. At least Roppongi has a whiff of youthful hedonism to it.

I was in Hiroo to go to the dentist. It was rather weird. Japanese dentists trained in the U.S. who insisted on speaking japanese to me as soon as they realized i could utter a few words.

I'm having a lot of fun babbling along in japanese these days. I'm not sure that i make anymore sense than i did before but i certainly have managed to start caring less. Is this progress?