I'm ready to get married

15 車 に あります。 車

掌 室 は 8 号 車 です。 この 電 車

では 新 大 阪 から 東 京 間 で 無

線 欄 に よ る イ ンタ ーネ ット 接 続 サ ービ ス。 I'm

in the embassy.

It's over. I got my certificate. It only

took about 5 minutes. She just checked my

application form and then I had to pay— I

had to pay about $70,

¥7,000, and then she

gave me a little red stamp on the

application form and I think that's all I

need. So I can get married now. I have my

certificate of no impediment. Um, next

thing to do is to, um, actually get

married. I was so worried. Um, I got to

the embassy at 5 minutes to 11. My

appointment was at 11, and I thought I was

gonna be late, and I was running. I had to

run from the train station to the embassy,

and then my pocket Wi-Fi just turned

itself off for some reason. I couldn't get

it to connect to my phone again, and then

I just had to use the maps that were

on the side of the road to find where the

embassy was. I was panicking so much

because if I missed my appointment, then I

don't know if they would— if they would be

okay if I came 10 or 15 minutes late. But

if I missed my appointment and they said,

sorry, you have to book a new appointment,

then I would have been screwed. I spoke to

this Japanese lady. She spoke really good

English. She sounded American. It's kind

of strange. You go to the British Embassy

and then you have all these Japanese

people who speak English. In an American

accent. You would have thought it would

make sense to have them speak in a British

accent since it, you know, it's the

British Embassy. Anyway, I'm thankful I

didn't have to see that posh stuck-up

English guy that I spoke to on the phone.

He was so annoying. I was really worrying

if I had to talk to him again. He's such a

The British Embassy is over there across

the road, and then across this river thing

is— over there is the Imperial Palace for

the Emperor of Japan. It's a pretty cool

place. It's a shame it's raining.

My girlfriend didn't want to come. She

said That I can go by myself. She said

it's not— there's no point in her coming

as well if she doesn't actually have to

come. She said she would rather save the

$200, and she couldn't get a day off work

anyway, so makes sense.

I don't really know what to do now. I

guess I could just go back, or I could

walk around Tokyo a bit.

I don't really have any interest in seeing

Tokyo, to be honest. Getting the

certificate was kind of funny. I had to

point my finger to my signature, and then

she held up this sign which had a sentence

in English that said something like— it

said something like, I hereby solemnly

swear, sincerely swear, that everything

that I'm about to say is 100% true. I

can't remember exactly what it said, but

it was, it was something like that.

I don't want to sound racist, but there's,

there's loads of white people around here.

Maybe because the British Embassy is here.

Um, a bunch of white people came out of

the embassy, this really posh-looking

English woman came out walking a little

dog. She looked like the most

stereotypical English person in the world.

It was kind of funny. I think this is the

entrance for the Imperial Palace.

It's not very impressive compared to

Buckingham Palace, is it? Where's the

fancy-looking guards? It's kind of

interesting, isn't it? In England, at

Buckingham Palace, we have those— the

famous Royal Guards with the red coats.

But in Japan, it's just, just some random

guys wearing a blue coat. I don't know

what I'm expecting. It's not like they're

gonna have samurai— people dressed up as

samurai standing outside the gates, are

they? That would be more interesting

though.

Can you imagine how boring this guy's job

is? He just stands there all day, every

single day, doing absolutely nothing.

Nothing. Shit, he's looking at me. I don't

think I could do a job where I just stood

there all day doing absolutely nothing.

I'm sure he does some things. I'm sure he

has some tasks to do during the day, but

it just looks like most of the day he's

just standing there outside of his little

hut. That'll drive me crazy.

Look, more white guys. Why are there so

many white people around here? It's weird.

Look, this guy just stands there all day

as well. Looks very

exciting.

Oh, there's 2 of them.

Maybe I'll go to Shibuya. I think it's

over that way. Just need to find out how

to cross this road first.

I'm walking around this area

in Tokyo where they have all these

government buildings. That's why there's

so many police just standing around, like

that guy over there. You see that guy?

There's loads of them just standing

around, and some of them are carrying big

wooden sticks. What are

they supposed to do with big wooden

sticks? In England, the,

um, the police will be carrying machine

guns and stuff like that. In Japan, they

just have a big wooden stick.