Parties, or enkais, well work related parties, not ragers or anything, always involve a ton of drinking. After teaching just 1 class on Friday. The class was at Sougawa and I had to teach every student at the school in one class period. Good thing there is only 11 kids at the school. So we went over the alphabet, because even the 5th grader isn't so good at the alphabet. So of the kids even make up their own letter when they write words down. Afterwords when went over animals. So after the class I drove back home and got ready for the Board of Education party in a nearby large city, Shirihama.
I rode in the car with my supervisor and he drove like a bat out of hell, and some points I cringed thinking we where going to fly off the road. Well we made it to the hotel and made it to the dining room. All the food was laid out on the table it looked good. On a closer look I could tell that I would have to do a bit of work. The raw lobster stared at me as I ate his insides while dodging his feelers with my chopsticks. There was a plate with some water and a candle under in which we were to boil some food. My supervisor place is raw lobster in is bowl and the lobster started to twitch a bit. Normally this kind of stuff would have bothered me, but I am in Japan and willing to try stuff, plus the triple handling of 3 drinks(sake, beer, and shochu) helped me over come and care about what I ate. After eating a variety of fresh fish we made it to a kareoke room where didn't care about embarressing my self and sang a few songs and even a couple in Japanese. I woke up the next day with a raging hangover.
We stopped at a large fishmart on the way home and I saw them take live tuna and start slicing it up right there and selling its parts for about $25 a slice. Toro is expensive. But it is so good. I did't buy anything because I couldn't look at alchol at this point nor was I hungry for fear of yaking.
I just kicked it last night by watching some West Wing and hanging out at my home. It was a weird time at one point. I found a funny as Simpon's episode where they go to Japan and have to go on to a game show to get back home. It is a classic episode. Then I got a wrong number phone call from some teenager living in Wakayama-city. I knew where he was from because I talked to him a bit in my broken Japanese. It was pretty cool. He was talking to me a bit even though he dailed the wrong number. He fiinally said that his mom was calling and had to go.
Today, Sunday has been slow, but alright. In the playground next to me a neighbor's kid was practicing is motocycle skills on a little motorcycle. His dad invited me over to his house and we had coffee and talked about motorcycles. He has a Harley Davidson from 2000 and cool big dirt bike. He used to me a sem-professsional motorcycle racer. His wife has a motorcycle too. He knew cool terms like 'dropping a knee' and 'ape hanger.' That Harley must have costed a fortnue. I think it cost him a years salary he said. I think here Harley's are double what they are in the states. I think he said his Harley model was 'Bad Boy' the same model as seen in Terminator 2 he said. Pretty cool neighbors. There seems to be legions of bikers in this area, because driving in the mountians here is suppose to be great.
