We got going around 11pm on Saturday, six of us, and quite the mixed troupe: One guy from Israel, two, a couple, from Mexico, one guy from Japan (Atsushi I wrote about already), one girl from the US and humble me from Germany. Hey, that rhymed! We were to meet another local girl, our guide, at Roppongi, and after about 30mins of Train and 20mins of walking, we did.
Before.
When the question came up of where to go, "Salsa!" seemed to be the general consensus, and who was I to disagree? So Ayumi got us into an apparently members only latino club, where we spent the next 4-5 hours dancing and drinking a lot of tequila. It was the Mexicans' idea, honest! Israeli guy hooked up with Japanese girl, and I think I kissed someone too, but I'll pretend here that I can't really remember. We decided around 5 that it was time for Kebab- ...Döner! They actually have Döner kebab here! I didn't believe my own eyes! It looks just like in Germany! Oh man... That was so awesome! Selling it from parked vans. Coolness!
Gas panic? Only in Japan will you find places named like this.
Anyways. Karaoke! God, my voice was so ruined! I am as of now totally convinced that Karaoke machines are designed to make you sound horrible.
And then we went back home, and it was 7 am.
After.
The next 2 days were spent reading Stephen King's "The Dark Tower", 7th of the series, which I bought for cheap money in Taiwan. Not much to tell otherwise... Oh, except maybe that Atsushi invited me to come to his place in Kyushu should I ever make it to that part of Japan. Cool guy, taught me a lot of Japanese too :) And yesterday we were out drinking with a friend of his, who was quite cute, but taken.
Now, today I got to my first WWOOF host. For those of you who are completely oblivious, WWOOF is a pretty much worldwide organisation that facilitates contact between mainly organic farms, but also other kinds of hosts, and people who are willing to work on/at/for them in exchange for free food and accommodation. People like me.
My hosts now are Kazuko and Hirofumi. She has a restaurant and shop, and he has a carpentry workshop, where I will be working with him, and hopefully learning a lot of interesting things! Today I only got here at 4pm, so didn't do too much, except to help finish a table. Then we went out to a sushi place, and that was the first time ever I tried sushi in my entire life! Lack of hunger and appetite kept me away from all the funny looking fish tables, but I tried some seaweed-wrapped rice, something else with rice, something with ham and a lot of dessert :D It was not bad, but I really didn't feel brave enough to try fish, yet.
Afterwards, Kazuko and me went shopping, and guess what - I get to cook pasta for dinner tomorrow :D
I also finally got a positive answer from a host over new years, so no worries there, I have a place to stay until early January, yay! I didn't even realize how close christmas already was! 5 days to go... I could have easily missed it if I wasn't in contact with people over the internet... So, merry christmas to everyone I don't see or hear from until then!
Now it's about time for bed, 1:25am here, and work tomorrow starts at 10pm.
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More pictures more pictures~! I love japan~!
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