silver week

Let's see if I can get this right...

Friday night I went to Rehab, this bar on Kokusai street (not actual rehab). I walked there with Nick and Tony and seeing that Nick had already gotten a head start on the drinking in his room, I was more accurately walking with "Drunk-Nick." Also known as, "Loud-Nick." Either way, it's really funny when he's drunk. We met up with Jillian and her BF who is visiting for a week or two and Aika. And Paul. I keep forgetting about him. He showed up later, though. Anyway, we had a good time drinking and talking and making fun of Nick's awkward/loud combination of the two. To his credit, he got a Japanese girl's number (without falling out of his chair like I had hoped...) Aika and I are very surprised and disappointed that he managed to get a Japanese girl before we got a (Japanese) boy.

Saturday I went shopping with Aika. I didn't buy anything exciting though since I haven't been paid yet. (Friday! Friday!) Saturday night I went to a salsa club called Salsatina's. Which is great, because I dance salsa. Oh wait, my body is more suited for napping, I forgot. I guess going to a place that specializes in salsa and not napping was a bad idea. It was fun, actually. I didn't get there until about midnight. I took a taxi and met up with Julia at the monorail station. Then I got to see Rudy and Wonton. Yay!! I was so happy to see them. I even danced with them (and Julia) a couple times. But I turned down the damn military guys who took it a lot harder than I thought they should have. They're such girls. All in all it was a fun night, but I didn't get to bed until 5am. So I was a little tired the next day.

Sunday I spent most of the day sleeping. And watching youtube. Mike, Ayaka, and Yurie called while they were waiting in a three hour line for a roller coaster ride, so I got to chat with them for a bit. Then I went shopping with Aika again. I bought conditioner. Wooooo. I had to walk to Kokusai street to get on the monorail to get to her house. On the way to Kokusai street I sort of took a wrong turn and ended up backtracking a giant circles worth of walking. My 35 minute walk took about an hour. Lame. But now I can easily get to Aika's! So that's good.

Monday I....did something. Oh yeah, I went with Tony to Shurijo castle. It rained on us right when we got there, so that sucked. But whatever, it was still cool to see the castle. We went to this tomb thing too, but it was super lame. I bought mango ice cream. Yummm. What else? I complained the entire walk back to the monorail station from the castle and to our apartments from the monorail station. Poor Tony.

I talked to my parents on Skype once, Laura twice, and my sister once within this past weekend. Yay for internet in my room!!

Tuesday I went studying with Aika, which really meant talking a lot at the different places we said we were going to study. I bought a book to study my Japanese because I want to take the level three Japanese proficiency test thing in December. Then Aika decided we should go drinking. I spent the night over at Aika's in her brother's old room. He's a (not gay?) hair dresser in Tokyo, so his room has these two mannequin doll heads on a shelf up near the ceiling. Only a little creepy. Thankfully Aika's mom volunteered to keep them in her room for the night so I could sleep. Aika tried to assure me that the hair didn't grow....I wasn't sure how that bit of information was supposed to make me feel better. Anyway, Aika's mom dropped us off at a small bar nearby. It was really fun. Aika's hairdresser and some guy came over and very loudly tried to talk to me. She kept saying, "I want to study English!" I swear she said it about 5 times. But I had a really good time and the owner gave us both a free drink. Yay for free drinks! He also tried to talk to me in English, but he wasn't very good. "nana-ten" is what he would say (I think). It means he only scored 7 out of 100 on the English test or something. He was really nice with the free drink, though, so I forgave him.

Today I woke up early enough to get to school by 8 because that's when Aika had to be there. I didn't have to go into school, but I did have to get ready to go back out (instead of back to bed like I had wanted) because I was going to meet up with a couple girls on Kokusai street so I had to leave my apartment around 9:30am. I've basically been at Kokusai street from 10ish until 4ish. I ate foo-chanpuru, did purikura, and hung out at Starbucks. We also did some shopping, but again, I didn't buy anything. No money!!! Argh.

Tomorrow it's back to school. Nooooooooooo..... . . . . . oh well. Only two days and then another weekend! YESH!