The weekend.

Last night was pretty sweet. See, because yesterday marked the beginning of second semester of the japanese school year, all my colleagues threw in 3500 yen each for a big after-work party. This meant that I went with a bunch of Japanese people that I barely knew and showed them how we Americans get fucked up. Yeah, apparently its a totally normal thing to get wasted in front of your boss, because hes getting fucked up too. It was great watching a principal of a public junior high school get wasted. So yeah, we were all at an izakaya drinking nomihoudai style (all you can drink) and eating a ton of awesome food (great sashimi, salmon carpaccio, yakitori, some thing ive never seen before but had like fried rice, etc). A bunch of my colleagues would come sit over by me and we all got to know each other better, and it was a lot of fun. The thing that sucks is I cannot remember these peoples names at all. I feel bad, because they all know my name, but goddamn, thirty or so japanese names to remember is no easy feat.

Today has been kinda boring. I woke up at about 815, watched some japanese tv, then went and checked out downtown Tsuchiura, or the area around the train station. It was alright, a couple department stores and I found the route to Tokyo and stuff like that. Then I went back home, watched tv and cooled off a little because its hot today, got some ramen, and rode my bike around some more until I found an Internet cafe, where I am now. Not very exciting, but thats okay.

There you have it. Dont know what Im going to do tonight, but i found some gaijin-friendly looking bars downtown, so maybe ill hit that up. Word. Lates.