Talk about jumping the gun

I don't know if this is possible but I think I've entered second childhood before even leaving the first! One of the great things about Japan is that there is a plethora of little collectable models and toys that can be had for quite cheap. As a result, I now own more toys than any time since I was about 10 years old. So far my collection is fairly typical of what the Japanese seem to love - giant fighting robots and scantily clad women with big guns...*ahem*...weapons.

I think my collection is probably going to get a lot bigger too. I don't know why either-I never felt a need to buy this stuff before I got here. Maybe there's something in the air. It certainly lends some credibility to the United States drug dogma though. I started out on the small stuff, little robots that you get out of the gumball machines for 200 yen and now I've moved up to the smaller sized models that cost between 500-1500 yen. Maybe when I'll move into my own apartment and get some paints I'll move up to the even larger 2000-3000 yen models. And I've already snapped a picture of my ultimate goal- the 13,000 yen model!
(Check out my cell on top for an idea of the scale.)