Saturday, May 16, 2009

TGIF

Weeks go by so fast here.

A huge festival started yesterday in Asakusa. It is the one where the guys are carrying the huge gold-like shrines. Even though we missed the big parade because of class, Travis, Scott, Kim, Candice, and I met up to eat dinner and check it out. A lot of the shops at Asakusa were already closing when we first got there, but there were more street vendors there then I have ever seen! It is so crazy how the norm here is yakisoba, takoyaki, seafood, ramen, okonomiyaki, choco bananna, candied fruits, and alcohol! So good and yummy.

I ate a bunch of dessert stuff and a big fried bread thing filled with gyoza meat. It was not as good as it looked, but really popular and different.

We didn’t stay there that long, but did try to win goldfish. It was 300 yen per scooper. They were the carnival style ones, a plastic circle with paper in the center. You get as many goldfish as you can scoop up before the circle totally breakes. Really really hard. I got one, but Travis couldn’t get any. The guy running the stand gave him a trophy one though. Lol must have felt bad. Later Candice and Scott had a competition. Candice got two and Scott zero. Candice traded hers in for a prettier one and Scott got a really ugly fat fish for trying ☺

After all of us girls went with Travis to Shibuya to meet up with his friends at a standing bar. All of the food and drink was only 300 yen ($3). I had one of the strongest drinks of my life there. Gin and ginger ale, super strong, really cheap. I was tipsy off that one. Crazy!

Met a lot of exchange and Japanese students there. All of them were from Aoyama. Lol the white exchange students would speak to us in Japanese, had no idea that our native language was English. It was pretty funny. I guess because Kim, Candice, and I are Japanese, they just figured we were from there. Really unexpected.

Of course we left late enough that we were walking fast to catch our train/subway back. It was absolutely the most squished I’ve been on a train ever. I’m glad we had all drank before, otherwise it would have been totally unbearable.

Meeting new people, hanging out with old friends, trying to speak Japanese, eating good festival food, going places, and drinking…it doesn’t get much better than this.

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