Yesterday was party day for the koto club. At 1:00 we all got together and went to a karaoke bar. It was my first time in such a place, so thank god there were other gaijin to explain exactly how the whole thing worked. There was a huge book filled with alphabetically-ranked, hiragana-ordered song lists (ask a friend if that didn't make sense), and after you find the code for the song you want you input it into a touch pad and it will add that song to the que. Luckily for me, there was a section for just anime songs, so I did have stuff to sing after all. We led off as a group in singing the Lucky Star opening theme, and we wrapped it up with Sakura, the song we had to sing and play for the culture festival. I can easily say I did better this time around :)
After that we went to an all-you-can-eat (tabehoudai) yakitori bar. For 1,800 yen, you get unlimited everything for two hours. Since meat is expensive in Japan, this is actually a great deal. I chowed down on enough rice, meat, and ice cream to last me one day's worth of meals, which worked out since I didn't have a proper lunch anyways. The fun part is that you have to grill everything yourself. There are stoves built into the tables, and waitresses bring you platters of raw meat. The Japanese members seemed concerned that we weren't cooking our meat all the way to well done, but when americans have control we know what we like.
Today I had my computer composition where I had to type an essay in Japanese, and then I had my third out of four tests for Speaking, which went fairly well. In koto practice, I got two new songs to play, and one of them is from Totoro! (and there was much rejoicing...)
Observations:
We went to an arcade after all the things yesterday, and I tried out the taiko game. Any culture that will use anime songs in common life things is good with me.
The Japanese, when abroad, find it hard to deal with the fact that many cultures have what they call a 'lack of respect for personal space'. This is coming from people who will touch you anywhere on the head when talking about something not serious, or pet you when you look sad. Just what are they basing the criteria for 'personal space' as?
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Actually, You are. You are just really really good at hiding your tail and ears. But we know. *stupid laughter*
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