東京らしい話

Well orientation has begun, and our group of 46 students are all going to be living with their respective home-stay families and dorms by tonight. The family I am going to live with is in Saitama. There is two grandparents, a mother, and a young boy. I am going to believing at their house with another CIEE student named Jason who is very nice.

We are also in the process of getting phones, and I am really hoping I can end up with a softbank Aquos shot:





Fun story about my first night out! A group of about 26 of us went to Shinjuku to try and find a bar that one of my buds heard about. It turned out to be an English style pub, which wasn't bad in itself, but I didn't come all the way to Tokyo, Japan to go to a pub. So after a few drinks a couple of us (10 maybe?) Left to go find a Japanese Izakaya. Izakaya is a Japanese style bar. We were walking and walking and not seeing any, so one of the girls in our group just started asking people where a cheap izakaya was. We were in the process of asking a convenience store clerk when 6 super drunk Japanese people wandered into the store. There were three guys and three girls, they were very noisy, and looked quite hammered. So of course we asked them where to go cause they obviously knew where to get drunk.

They were so funny, made us take at least 10 minutes worth of photos outside the combini before heading to the bar, another 10 minutes out side the bar, and finally more whe we sat done. We went around the table after the Kanpai and every time one person introduced themselves there was a loud (HEEYYYY) followed with clinking of glasses and drinking. Over all it was pretty fun and we hope to run into those guys again!