Anyway, last weekend 6 of us went to Fukuoka (a city at the bottom of Honshu) for a night. After accusing me of being a burden on everyone, Rosie found me a wheelchair and proceeded to push me around the biggest shopping malls ever at speed!
Me, Dan and Rosie at the hotel. You can just see pictures of some of the rooms behing us. Being Valentines Day, there were decorations everywhere we went. It got kind of creepy after a while. Especially because in Japan only the girls give chocolates, preferably home-made. On March 14 they have 'White Day', where boys can decide to give girls chocolate if they like them, or just reject them. Great, huh?
Dan, Starsky and me in the middle of Fukuoka. The traffic was insane. We saw a bus almost side-swipe an SUV - cool
Thursday, I was in the mood for sushi, so I texted all the ALTs in Hagi, and 2 of the guys were keen for dinner, so out we went, only to discover our favourite restaurant closed. Not willing to go home and cook - can you blame us? - we found a great little yakitori (lit. fried bird) place around the corner. It was cheap and GOOD! The only problem was the beer was the cheapest in the city, and we couldn't miss an opportunity like that. After dinner, we went to Mister Donut for dessert, then off to the combini for more beer. Back at Matt's house we ended up drinking and talking until 1am. I'm sure I've said this before, but riding a bike home when you're drunk is an experience. Remind me not to do it again. Let's just say I wasn't feeling entirely healthy at work on Friday, but I managed to get through the day, then went to Yamaguchi city with a few others for sushi, so I got my raw fish after all :)
Yesterday, the Hagi kiwis (Dan, Rosie, Jo and me) made our way to Heki (45 minutes south-east of Hagi) where we met up with a big group of Yamaguchi ALTs and proceeded to eat a pile of food and drink even more alcohol.
Jess attempting to balance one more beer can on our tower. Matt (in the background) had just succeeding in balancing a raw egg on the top - we were very proud.
Today the weather was absolutely bollocks, so Dan, Jo and I went bowling. For my first time, it was really fun. And they actually have drinkable beer and passable wedges at the bowling place. Turns out Dan is a fantastic bowler, and he thoroughly kicked my and Jo's asses! I claim 2 strikes, even if they did come after 2 gutter balls, and so were technically spares.
Dan posing. Need I say more?
So it's been a busy week. Next weekend we have a tentative plan to go to Hiroshima for a night. There is an Irish bar (with Japanese barmen), an English bookshop and The Body Shop - heaven.
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