Jamie's Tokyo Blog -- Mainichi Gaijin de Tokyo!
November 9th, 2009 
☆about me☆

Name: Jamie // ジェイミー
誕生日：1980年8月5日
しし座・B型・185ｃｍ・アメリカ人
Leo・B+・6ft・American

今場所：東京
Current location: Tokyo, Japan
今仕事：漫画アシスタント:月刊雑誌ジャンプSQで「新テニスの王子様」
コラムニスト：朝日ウイークリー(毎月最後の日曜日のみ)で「Walking Tokyo」
女優：「ASAHI　POP’N　PRESS」　週間番組：毎週土曜日連載ナビゲーターとして出演
「先読みJUMP BANG!」許斐先生のアシスタントとし出演
他：モデルなど
Occupation: Manga artist: "New Prince of Tennis" serialized in monthly manga magazine JUMP SQ
Columnist: Asahi Weekly "Walking Tokyo" column on the last Sunday of every month
Acting: Weekly program "Asahi Pop'n Press" main cast
"Saki Yomi Jump Bang!" appeared as Konomi-sensei's assistant
Various
Other: Various other work + interviews
将来夢：漫画家・写真家・女優・世界の平和の張本人
Future job: Mangaka, Photographer, Actress, Supporter of world peace.

東京に住んでいるアメリカ人です☆
Hi, my name is Jamie. I'm originally from America, but now I live in Tokyo, Japan. I work as a manga assistant for Prince of Tennis right now, as well as write a column for Asahi Weekly, host a TV show, and various other projects!☆

よろしくネ ♪ ジェイミーと呼んでください ☆ アメリカ人ですが2004年9月から日本に住んでいます。芸術が大好きです！未来に漫画家になりたいんですにゃ！

Please call me Jamie, or Hi-chan is okay if you feel like it. ^^ Yoroshiku! ☆ I'm American through and through, but in Sept'04 I moved to Tokyo, Japan, in order to pursue my dreams. I love Tokyo, and I look forward to spending a long and fun life here! =^_^=

This blog is mainly in english, but also will have some japanese here and there. Most of the entries here are going to be about my daily life in Tokyo, whether that is seeing friends, attending an event, taking a vacation, or whatever else may come up. I post a lot of photos, as is probably apparent, and I love comments! ^^ For lj users: please feel free to friend me and always feel free to comment, whether you know me or not!
☆latest posts☆
· 01:12 pm - Volunteering again ^_^ [+12]
· 06:03 pm - Conbini life! [+15]
· 06:18 pm - City life! [+15]
· 06:29 pm - And what??? [+20]
· 06:51 pm - The Vampire cafe! [+46]
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01:12 pm - Volunteering again ^_^
I'm glad that everyone likes the random pictures! ^___^ I've been taking a lot more so that I can post them on my lj soon. =^-^=

But in the meantime, I went volunteering again the other day! This time, Adele came with me, so it was easy to get into things, and as always (lol, this is only the second time), I had a fun time!

We volunteered for 2HJ, which is basically a food bank, and on Saturday they have people come in and help and go feed homeless people in the park. We only helped for the preparations, because there were too many people signed up for the park part (which was my favorite part before, too bad). That's the only bad thing, I suppose... that to sign up to help, you have to be kind of competitive! I'd rather just help out in a more relaxed manner.

But at least we got into a rhythm, and so 'work' went fast. We met a lot of really nice people, too. I always love talking to volunteers!! I'm going to look for more places to volunteer, if there are any (let me know if you know of any!), and see if I can find something that really matches my personality. ^^ I don't want anything that has to do with money, or asking for money. I'd rather work directly with people or animals that need help. We'll see!!

I did take a few pictures, though not many since I can't show the volunteer's faces without permission (aside from mine and Adele's) ( Read more... )
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06:03 pm - Conbini life!
I'm starting a new tag, Conbini Life, just to post about weird things or just things that I find in japanese convenience stores (and of course, other ones when I travel!). I'd really like to post more about the "normal" (as much as my life is) parts of living in Japan... at least what I experience living in Japan, since everyone is different!!

So without further ago, a few more pictures of convenience store-ness! Guess I'd better take as many as I can right now, in case I suddenly get my break and am too famous to get away with taking pictures! (lol, well you never know! It would be nice, ne? ^___^)

( +6 conbini pictures, +5 berry cafe... )
06:18 pm - City life!
I was volunteering in Akihabara, and we had a reservation for a place in Ginza that evening, so Adele and I decided to walk.... I took a lot of great pictures of the city!!

Sorry in advance, but I have a lot of posts to make and only tonight to make them (studio from tomorrow on), so I'm going to make a lot of posts all at once! ^^ Sometimes I don't like doing that, because it discourages people from commenting, (I love comments!!), but I've gotta post while I can! ^^

( +10 pictures of buildings and pretty sights in the city ^__________^ )
06:29 pm - And what???
You know how you hear about all of those random strange vending machines in Japan? Well, this one sells canned soups.

Canned ramen, oden, curry, chicken soup.... all sorts of strange things!!

( Read more... )

It's in Akihabara, by the way... Think you can find it? It's kind of hiding in plain sight ^_~

I wouldn't have even known about it myself if it wasn't for my friend Patrick, from Otaku2.com! He introduced it to us when he guest starred on Pop'n Press! I HIGHLY recommend his book, too!! The Otaku Encyclopedia!! It's full of nearly everything that an Otaku would want to know! I really loved it!! (I'll do a really good review of it eventually!)
06:51 pm - The Vampire cafe!
This is the last of my posts for the day! =D

So, the final stop for Saturday (it was a full day!) was the Vampire cafe! Yeah... the Vampire Cafe.

Which is... exactly like it sounds! A kitchy cafe decorated to look all dracula and bloooooooood. Something a lot of people I know back home would like XD

Honestly, it was interesting, but.. well, too smoky. I would gladly go back if it was nonsmoking, but since that isn't going to happen and it was utterly miserable from the smoke of the drug-addicted girl behind us (they ARE drugs), and the chain-smoking guy next to us, I won't be going back.

However, whenever Tokyo is made smoke-free, I am so coming back! Here's to the future!!

( But some pictures Dracula himself would (not) be proud of XD )

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