Rainy Kyoto Night

Wednesday, 20th March 2019

It was quite a scenic ride on the Shinkansen, felt shorter than 4hrs. Before I know it, I’m already at Kyoto. First impression upon reaching, I LOVE IT. The train platform was an open-air platform & I could see mountains from a distance away! I made my way to the apartment excited to catch some sleep! But the door to the apartment was not locked.. weird. I got a bad feeling about this. And indeed! The apartment was not made up at all, with dirty linen & towels thrown everywhere.. I was furious. I was feeling tired, sleepy & in desperate need for a bath & sleep. I left my backpack in the apartment, went downstairs and called the Airbnb owner demanding an explanation & a clean apartment. He said the apartment would be clean in 2 hours, told me to go wait around and that he was very apologetic. Seriously?

Oh well! I decided to go for lunch nearby the apartment and explore the neighbourhood a little bit. I went to the Starbucks to get a tiramisu drink and had sushi in a very quaint Japanese restaurant just across the street. T’was nice! 😋

The apartment was already ready when I was having my sushi. I went back to the made up apartment and finally took a shower and settled in. Javier the teacher replied me! We texted briefly, I told him I was gonna sleep and that I’ll talk to him later when I wake up. Cause I’m soooo sleeppyyyyy.. zzz

I had such a nice nap! Felt so well-rested! C: I was doing some laundry and started feeling a little hungry. It was around 9pm. There was supposed to be a Lawson few mins walk away from here but I couldn’t seem to find it on google map.. I remember I was talking to Javier on Tinder & decided to ask if he can help me on the directions.

I sent the location maps to Javier and he said he wants to call me to direct me to Lawson. I was taken aback.. But Javier says it’s safer for me to go around the streets at night speaking in English cause Japanese would be intimidated by it? Haha! I went around in circles for abit while Javier tried to guide me to the Lawson. I was bit nervous talking to him on the phone cause I didn’t know what to say. I was talking about whatever I saw on the streets and the stuff they were selling at the convenience store. For example, should I buy mayo you think? Hahaha. I got some bento dinner, salad, drinks AND mayo! When I got back to the apartment, I lost the reception and the call got cut off.

Javier sent me messages after that while I was heating up the food. He said, “I liked talking to you. You seem interesting and I would be Glad to meet you.” I was like what..? Was it a test to see if I was interesting enough to meet? Hahaha. He said he wanted to talk more. So we called and spoke on the phone again while I was eating. The call kept dropping and we kept calling. We had like 15 calls on and off cause of poor connection, chatted till midnight. Then we decided we should just text. We arranged to meet up the next day afternoon after he finished running some errand. I really enjoyed talking to him. He seemed like a nice gentleman. Before we went to sleep, he said he was horny.. and we kindda touched on the topic of sex. Hmm maybe I would hook up with him tomorrow? 😛

It was raining heavily that night, it was cold.. around 17 degree celcius. I love listening to the sounds of rain splattering on the window. I opened up the window and dozed off to the sounds.. C: