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       A couple of days ago, some of my dorm mates and I went to Tsukiji, known as the fish market place here in Japan. In order to see all he action of the day, you have to wake up at the crack of dawn, thus I had to wake up at around 3:30 to get ready to go. That night, my roommate said I could borrow her bike to go to the Musashisakai station since everyone was riding our bikes there. On the bike ride there I got bitten two times by mosquitoes!! Sometimes I feel like I'm in the rainforest here in Japan. It's so humid and everywhere you go you get bitten by something LOL. Anyway, when we got to the station, we parked our bikes and went in to the subway to Tsukiji. When we got there, there's wasn't that many people and we ate breakfast at this fish place (I had salmon and red tuna, it was pretty good but I'm not a fan of eating raw fish so early in the morning) Next, we went to the fish market and saw all the action and busy people doing their jobs that day. It was really interesting and there were some types of fish I had never seen in my life before! After looking at the fish market we decided to head back to Musashisakai station and back to ICU. When we got back however, our bikes were gone! We finally realized that we all had parked our bikes in a "no bike parking zone" and that the police must have come and repossessed our bikes. Frustrated and a little worried because the bike I had gotten repossessed wasn't even my bike to begin with, we had no choice but to just go back to school and do our class registration for the fall term. We couldn't do anything at that moment anyway because the place that we figured had our bikes wasn't open yet. So I went back to school and registered and later met my friend Yuka and told her the whole story. She laughed but was still concerned so she took me to get my mind off of it by going shopping and eating at the Musashisakai station. Walking around and shopping at the station I saw a line of bikes on the side of a building with a bunch of warning signs on them and I told Yuka "Now, why couldn't the police just do that for our bikes!" On the way back to school I met up with my dorm mates that said they were going to go and pick up the bikes now. I told them to wait for me because I would only be a second. So I ran back to my dorm, put my food and stuff I bought for the day away and ran all the way back to the front gate (all in weather that could make an egg fry on the sidewalk!) When we got to the Musashisakai station, we had to take another bus from there and I think the entire trip to the police station where we thought they had our bikes took around 30 min. When we got to the police station and asked about our bikes the police man told us "Umm, we didn't take you bikes, we just moved them to the side." I couldn't believe anything that was happening at that moment! We went all this way and did all this work for nothing because the bikes were at the station all along. And to make matters even worst, the bikes with the warnings on them that I was talking to Yuka about earlier were OUR bikes! At that moment I just wanted to go home and sleep the day away not believing what the hell just happened! I couldn't believe we were all so stupid LOL! But to be brief, we got the bikes back and made an ass of ourselves that day. Here are some pictures of Tsukiji and the airplane ride I took to Japan.