The weekend

Ok, this is the last post I can be bothered writing today, so make sure you read all of 4 of them!
So 2 weeks ago I managed to make a new Japanese friend, and I bumped into this person in our bar, No Side while we were both drinking with friends. I went over and we got chatting - mostly in Japanese (I was drunk enough to be relaxed enough to talk, but not so drunk I couldn't put sentences together; thats a fine line, I've discovered), and we agreed to go fishing together on an island just off the coast of Hagi.
So on Saturday 4 of us - me, my friend and another friend and the bar man from No Side - went to the island and spent the day fishing and drinking. I managed to catch 4 fish. It was really fun! Late in the afternoon we headed back to Hagi and went to a place called Honmamon, which is a great little place to eat. There is nothing equivalent in NZ, so it is kind of hard to describe, but basically, you sit at the counter and talk to the women who run it while the cook your food. Also, there are different dishes on the counter, and you can pick and choose off those for free.
Anyway, we took our fish in and they cooked them for us in about 4 different styles. Delicious!! We then drank some more and finally we all went home. I had been in bed about 10 minutes when I got a call from Paul (another Hagi ALT), ordering me into town to make up numbers at another bar. How could I refuse? So I headed back into town and met some other Japanese people - yay, more friends! - and drank some more. We finally left that bar around 2am. Paul was doubling me on my bike as we were heading back to his place and then I was going on from there. Except, we decided to make a quick detour past our favourite bar (yup, No Side, again) for one more drink. No Side was absolutely packed, and so we ended up talking to random people. One guy insisted on showing us all his tattoos! I finally made my excuses and snuck home around 3am.
I don't want to talk about Sunday. Let's just say I made my way over to Pauls place around midday for a cooked breakfast brunch thing, then crawled home and did absolutely nothing. What a weekend!! :)