Tornado and Club
This weekend was crazy. Crashed a salary man party, typhoon number 22 hit and hit tokyo this time, and sunday went to nomihodai and club.
Friday went back to Y's on friday. It was wierd because I went with two opposite groups the regulars were there at the normal table (its very cool were regulars at that swank place) and I came with another table of others. Mikey dubbed me to UN because I acted as a bridge between the two nations. Anyways the event of the night was when Mikey jumped into the middle of a Kaishian party and Yelled, "Mikey Desu!" I am in the bathroom at the time and some one ran in and yelled Mikeys in the party Ari!. So I do the obvious thing I make a head band out of toilet paper and run into the party myself. They call me a ninja I may have drank a beer and the two parties became one. Very strange start.
Saturday = Typhoon day. Me = retard. I assumed that I was better then the typhoon so like a smart guy I trample out of my house and head off to Odaiba again to get a look at the big international design thingy. There were supposed to be big shipping crates each produced by a different designer. Sounded really cool. So fortunatly my friend Danial's host brother drove us down there. His host brothers a cool guy who is a salaryman but graduated not long before from Tokyo U so hes still a young guy. We headed off to Odaiba but it was a bit scary since we could only see about 5 feet in front of the car. All hell had broken loose outside the car. We missed our stop a few times but finally made it to Odaiba. Of course we walk there in the rain and wind to find it closed but we were still there so Dan's host brother took us to a famous Izakaiya in Aqua city a huge mall. It was real good but a bit expensive. When we got out of the Izakaiya though it was like walking into a different country. The typhoon was completly gone and Odaiba was the clearest I had ever seen it. It was beautiful you could see the rainbow bridge, the statue of liberty, and tokyo tower all at once. We then drove down to Shinjuku and went up to the top of the Metropolitan building which has an amazing 45th floor view of the city. So after all Ari=1 Typhoon=0.
Sunday was also jam packed. I started off with my host mom giving me the choice of Ramen or Cereal for breakfast, I quickly though what would Mukai do and took the ramen, it was awsome. No school on Monday due to national sports day (no one could explain why we need that but I am glad for the day off). I started off at the edo tokyo museum in ryogoku which is a funky shaped building. The museum isnt that great but it was still worth going to. Afterwards went to Ueno with Anthony and wandered around some of the busy markets. Also in Ueno visited awsome toy store where I off course wasted a good amount of money on small crap. I am so weak. Sunday night went to Shibuya and met up with Brian, Anthony, Ben, Danial, Caleb, Yuji, Kanako and Courtney (a fellow los angelijin). Yuji left to go to Nagano where he had just come back from but thats a whole nother story. We then went to a cheap nomihodai where I also had some pretty good sushi. Then Anthony, Brian, and Kanako left to go home and try to make the last train (which they didn't). The rest of us went off to a club (Annie also met us there later), club harlem which was definitly a wierd but interesting place. I had too much to drink and got into cycles where I had to sit down for a while, then I would get restless stand up wander off, realize I was off somewhere wierd, just start dancing, and then repeat. I think I'm not really a club type person after my experiences the past couple times here, from now on I will just stick with bars. I like that you meet more wierd people, which is really what I am about here. Courtney, Caleb (maybe I dont really rememeber) and I did meet some wierd have japanese half french kids outside of a combini but that was about it. Courtney, Caleb and I left a bit early then the rest and it was cool to sit around the combini and talk for a while nice change of pace from the hot and busy club. Then we all went our ways to get home and make our first trains. It was overall a veried and fun night, good to hang out with the friends. I dont think I will ever write this much again but it was a nutty weekend so I thought I should take the time to capture it here.
Friday went back to Y's on friday. It was wierd because I went with two opposite groups the regulars were there at the normal table (its very cool were regulars at that swank place) and I came with another table of others. Mikey dubbed me to UN because I acted as a bridge between the two nations. Anyways the event of the night was when Mikey jumped into the middle of a Kaishian party and Yelled, "Mikey Desu!" I am in the bathroom at the time and some one ran in and yelled Mikeys in the party Ari!. So I do the obvious thing I make a head band out of toilet paper and run into the party myself. They call me a ninja I may have drank a beer and the two parties became one. Very strange start.
Saturday = Typhoon day. Me = retard. I assumed that I was better then the typhoon so like a smart guy I trample out of my house and head off to Odaiba again to get a look at the big international design thingy. There were supposed to be big shipping crates each produced by a different designer. Sounded really cool. So fortunatly my friend Danial's host brother drove us down there. His host brothers a cool guy who is a salaryman but graduated not long before from Tokyo U so hes still a young guy. We headed off to Odaiba but it was a bit scary since we could only see about 5 feet in front of the car. All hell had broken loose outside the car. We missed our stop a few times but finally made it to Odaiba. Of course we walk there in the rain and wind to find it closed but we were still there so Dan's host brother took us to a famous Izakaiya in Aqua city a huge mall. It was real good but a bit expensive. When we got out of the Izakaiya though it was like walking into a different country. The typhoon was completly gone and Odaiba was the clearest I had ever seen it. It was beautiful you could see the rainbow bridge, the statue of liberty, and tokyo tower all at once. We then drove down to Shinjuku and went up to the top of the Metropolitan building which has an amazing 45th floor view of the city. So after all Ari=1 Typhoon=0.
Sunday was also jam packed. I started off with my host mom giving me the choice of Ramen or Cereal for breakfast, I quickly though what would Mukai do and took the ramen, it was awsome. No school on Monday due to national sports day (no one could explain why we need that but I am glad for the day off). I started off at the edo tokyo museum in ryogoku which is a funky shaped building. The museum isnt that great but it was still worth going to. Afterwards went to Ueno with Anthony and wandered around some of the busy markets. Also in Ueno visited awsome toy store where I off course wasted a good amount of money on small crap. I am so weak. Sunday night went to Shibuya and met up with Brian, Anthony, Ben, Danial, Caleb, Yuji, Kanako and Courtney (a fellow los angelijin). Yuji left to go to Nagano where he had just come back from but thats a whole nother story. We then went to a cheap nomihodai where I also had some pretty good sushi. Then Anthony, Brian, and Kanako left to go home and try to make the last train (which they didn't). The rest of us went off to a club (Annie also met us there later), club harlem which was definitly a wierd but interesting place. I had too much to drink and got into cycles where I had to sit down for a while, then I would get restless stand up wander off, realize I was off somewhere wierd, just start dancing, and then repeat. I think I'm not really a club type person after my experiences the past couple times here, from now on I will just stick with bars. I like that you meet more wierd people, which is really what I am about here. Courtney, Caleb (maybe I dont really rememeber) and I did meet some wierd have japanese half french kids outside of a combini but that was about it. Courtney, Caleb and I left a bit early then the rest and it was cool to sit around the combini and talk for a while nice change of pace from the hot and busy club. Then we all went our ways to get home and make our first trains. It was overall a veried and fun night, good to hang out with the friends. I dont think I will ever write this much again but it was a nutty weekend so I thought I should take the time to capture it here.
