Music: Nineteen, Tegan and Sara
That means cheers. Was taught that by our new awesome Japanese friends. The whole (well some of us) amity group went out on Sunday night and were approached by a young lady named Takaya. Awesome style, awesome hair, awesome stylish japanese friends with wicked hair…heck yes you can come out with us!
So to a bar we go. And by bar i mean, an awesome traditional japanese bar (no karaoke yet… wednesday i will embarrase myself thanks) where we go into a seperate room (take off your shoes before you go in! Ash: dont wear your white shoes that make your feet stinky! Alyssa has the same ones and when you have to take them off… you might be a little embarrased), and sit on the floor.
Cool: Button to call the waitress over
Notcool: Keriane keeps hitting the button by accident!
Cool:Servers here punch the order into the machine as soon as you order it from them at the table, therefore, drinks even faster…we are sooo far behind… but im brining these ideas back my friends!
Not Cool: they dont know what soda is, nor do they mix it with gin. or something…for some reason i can’t get it, and had to order gin and rikki… tasted like a tom collins.
Takaya and her friends are hilarious, and super fun to hang out with. Takaya is willing to answer any questions we have about the culture ….”my feet, biiiiig, can i get wicked shoes here?? “ “i like your hair, where can i buy some for myself?” (a lot of japanese ladies have crazy long extensions, and apparently they are pretty cheap. me and alyssa are totally gonna check em out.) “how do you say cheers?”…more drinks!!! Kompai!!
Oh, man, i totally want to bring all these japanese girls to Guelph, they drink soooo fast, and i’m all like, damn, i better try to stay caught up… um, no they can’t handle their alcohol at all, but its sweet that they try so hard! ergo, they would be wicked to bring out drinking in guelph, where we go hard!
So we had a great time with them, and made plans to meet them at the gardens and castle the next day.
next day: um.. i need one more hour of sleep.
The gardens and castle is when it reeeeeally hit me (and the girls i think too). Alyssa, Kanika and I took a 1/2 hour walk in the blistering sun to the garden and castle we heard so much about. (ps. apparently tans arnt hot here, cause it represents lower class working inthe rice fields…but whatevah, my tan is gettin hawter by the minute! wootwoo!). K the garden and castle were breathtaking, and there were definitely a million squeals “We are reeeally in Japan!!!!!” We came to this wooden um… gazebo almost… not sure what else to call it. it had a roof and you sit down and put your feet in the cool stream of water that runs through it and just chill. aaaaaaaah, so relaxing and zen like. Met some other foreigners, guy from Texas, who worked for amity, and he was super awesome. Also, got told by like every Japanese woman that we were super beautiful. Aaaaaweee, *blush*.
So the castle did it for me. I’ll post pics soon.
Falling more in love by the minute.
Alyssa and I met up with our Japanese friends again that night for a drink. Get this… they were waiting exactly where we met them the first time, in hopes of running into us again. How Sweet?!?! Takaya is totally gonna take us out shopping and Karaokeing on wednesday. She loves us. We love her. Their’s love all around.
did i mention i love Japan?
off to training!!! love lindzxo
) there they were sweeping the sidewalks! Their are no homeless people, which means they are doing something right. Right? The streets are little and narrow and and pop out of no where and surprise you with awesome little clothing stores, vintage stores and weird “Book Stores” and much else.