September 18th-広尾 Part1

I'm sitting under a tree at the Hirobashi intersection. There is the Gaien Nishi Road infront of me, busy and loud with all the traffic, intersecting with a smaller street with lots of smaller shops. It has been quite cloudy all day, and it looks as though it will start raining anytime now. Several girls in high school uniforms all spaking American English walk past me. Some of them have blonde hair, some have Japanese features and curly gold hair. They meet another group of girls, similarly dressed at the intersection and use a mixture of Japanese and English to chat. One of them is wearing pink gum boots, or wellies, with her Japanese school uniform. Her European features makes her look like an anime character.
Today I walked from Hiro 2 chome past an traditional Japanese cemmetery, which is in a neighborhood full of expensive houses with sattelite discs, automated garage doors, huge windows and expensive cars. I walk through this ex-pat area through the small windy back streets of Hiro towards a street that people here would call the sho-ten gai. It's something similar to a mall, but a street with places to shop and eat. Ramen shops stand next to American clothing shops called "Rodeo Drive". There are blonde haired kids eating at Homework's, as well as the older ladies of the area making the rounds. Every second person I bump into is a foreigner. I hear many different languages, Russian, Chinese, French and mostly English.
The ladies are discussing the birth of Princess Kiko's baby at a nearby hospital in Hiro. It is interesting to hear how excited they are that there is a boy born to the royal family now.