Sonic Summer
["extremely exciting and fast-paced", slang from Latin sonus]
Part I: Sumeet lands Sunday July 12th
Well finally the day came when little Summo aka Sumeet, my baby brother now half a foot taller than me, landed in Japan!
I was quite nervous to see him beforehand. It had been over 8 months and certainly at that age, teenagers look diferent inshort spaces of time! Anyway, I was waiting for the Air France passengers to make their entrance at Narita North Wing Arrivals, and after about half the plane, Summo strolled in!
Wow, he looked so diferent. His hair, his hat, and looked so much older. Goodness. It was strange at first and took me a few minutes to readjust mentally, the fast-forwarding of time that we had missed spending together.
When I left UK after graduation last November, he looked and sounded much younger!
Regardless of appearances, we bounce straight back in to our usual roles and conversation as you do with anyone you are close to. I love his company as he has a very cynical dry sense of humour and when he makes fun of me [which is often], it is actually very funny!
So he had had a good trip from London to Paris and connected successfully and slept about 6 hours at least. The movies were terrible and both-yes all TWO were in French. That is in now way a reflection of French cine. Non, mais non! J'adore le cine francais. Mes favoris sont La Haine L'Appartement -le deux avec Vince Cassel.
I was proud of him-flying all the way on a connecting flight all by himself. It's is only a little thing-but a sure sign of independance when you do things like that by yourself. Or may be I'm just being a big sister?!
Well, we were thirsty and it was like 8am, so we chilled out at the Starbucks downstairs for a while to chat.
Apres ca, nous sont alles a Ueno, where we walk around the town and took in the hectic vibes of an older stlye Tokyo. Summo was quite quiet for the former part of the day-just adjusting and finding his feet on the new ground. 'I can't beleieve I'm in Japan! Woohoo, we're in Tokyo!'.
By lunchtime we were very hungry and rewarded ourselves with a big meal at Hard Rock Cafe. Yummy! I love that place-good vegetarian options and tasty in general, proper portions and a cool atmosphere.
Well I had school the next day and we both needed to rest after a hectice week and all that flying, so we toddled off home to Otsuki and enjoyed the afternoon unpacking all the goodies from UK and talking talking talking :)
