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I spent a day Shopping in Tokyo’s Incredible Secondhand Goods Stores

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For the last full day of The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift, I decided to spend the day perusing a selection of Tokyo’s famous secondhand goods stores like Book Off, Hard Off & Hobby Off, Nakano Broadway or the well known Super Potato store in Akihabara looking for all sorts of Japanese domestic treasures – from old games consoles like GameBoys and Famicoms to vintage electronics like classic and quirky cameras and even collectibles like model cars. I also stopped by a Pokémon Centre, had breakfast at the popular chain Cafe Gusto – featuring the quirky robot waiters, ate a sizzling lunch at the appropriately named Pepper Lunch and capped the trip off with one last Katsu Curry at my beloved CoCo Ichibanya.
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I won the Mario Kart Universal Cup at Universal Studios Japan

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The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift racks up its third theme park with my first ever trip to Universal Studios Japan! As a big time Mario Kart fan, I of course had to get on Mario Kart Koopa’s Challenge again to win the Universal Cup, but there was so much more in this action packed and extra long park day – including my first ride on the brand new Donkey Kong Mine Cart Madness, another first with the sole remaining Jaws: The Ride in the world, Jurassic Park the Ride (also in the dark!), The Flying Dinosaur, Hollywood Dream The Ride, SPY x FAMILY XR Ride, Yoshi’s Adventure and Villain-Con Minion Blast.
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AS Media Studies Prelim. Task

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This is the Preliminary Task we had to produce for our AS Level Media Studies Production Coursework. The brief was someone entering a room, sitting across from another character and then having a brief conversation with them. Other than that, we had total creative freedom. Our interpretation is (Very) loosely based on a drug deal.