I've been specifically warned against Butterbeer by a fellow study abroad student i met here who lives in Orlando. He says its very overwhelming, and not in a good way.

@ Signalstar, yes and no. You have to be careful for gold-diggers, because the Japanese assume that all Americans (unless they're GIs) are rich, so some women may show an interest in an effort to pump you for some money. American men have the advantage in that Japan is slow to adapt to women's rights, so some Japanese women who might be opposed to traditional women's roles may look for a Westerner to love as an out.

Otherwise they're about as receptive as anywhere else.

VERY!!!

If you're looking for a Japanese girlfriend, chances are high you'll find one! Japanese women love foreigners!　But indeed you have to be careful, for reasons stated by Khan.

Listening to some of your stories I'm becoming very intrigued about maybe spending some time in Japan. I'm only 19 though, so money would be a stumbling block.

Good to hear you are having a good time there. I was planning to go there last year, but one of my relatives was in a very bad financial hardship so I gave him the money and now I am kinda broke to do it... I am hoping to do it next year though.

3 for one Figurine get! I knew there was a reasonably cheap Yuki Nagato in a certain store in a place called Nakano Broadway (it's like mini-Akihabara), and managed to find it after digging through stock. It is used and slightly damaged (a discolored spot on her elbow, but it's so small that the clerk had to take it out of the box to show me), but the kicker comes in the two-for-one deal of 1/6th scale Panty and Stocking (of Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt fame) for less even than the Yuki Nagato.

Yuki comes with her witch outfit and two seasonal school uniforms, as well as a pair of glasses

Good god i need help. But tomorrow should be more wholesome: hanami (cherry blossom viewing) at Ueno Park.

I thought it was called Sakura? 

Are you a full on figurine collector? That's what you always seem to talk about in this thread. XD Have you found any other good games?

Wow... you actually went to the Sumo Tournament?

My guess is Sakura = cherry blossoms

Hanami= cherry blossom viewing aka the act of looking at cherry blossoms falling down a tree.

I am interested in Japan  I would like to visit it once just dont have the time right now but maybe studying a semester in Japan would be nice.

Netyaroze got it right. Sakura are what the blossoms are called, but hanami, literally 花見、　has the parts hana 花　"flower" and 見　mi "look."

So, how was hanami?