Girls (and guys), just wanna have fun!
After an uneventful day yesterday, my friend and I finally left the hostel at 3.30 into the pouring rain of kyoto to meet our friends from tokyo at 4pm. However, we got lost on the way and ended up arriving 30 mins late - thank god they were patient!
after meeting, we wandered the streets for a place to snack: we were going to meet two japanese friends at about 8pm and figured itd be good to all eat together.
8pm came around pretty quickly, and after 20 mins waiting at the station we finally hooked up with Tomoko and Mai, our two japanese friends. It didnt take long to realise that everyone was hungry and a trip to a restaurnt would be needed, so we followed the canadian to a 'near by' spot he allegedly knew - it turned out to be 30 minutes walk away. The meal rocked and was of the style of an all you can eat buffet. Very nice.
the restaurant atmosphere was great too and it was excellent to socialise within a large group of such diverse people. I made a horrendous cultural mistake though when Oz, the canadian guy, passed me some food with his chopsticks: i accepted them with mine, something thats associated with funerials i believe and is a huge, huge taboo. I had no idea until the japanese girls jaws dropped (and i thought they were impressed at my chopstick skills). Shan't be doing that again in a hurry..
next up was karaoke! My first time in japan, or on earth, for that matter! Karaoke really did rock, we had so much fun. We opened up with girls just wanna have fun: a long, long story why involving a german guy and a buddist temple.....another time, right?
Todays been cool too - we checked out a few temples in kyoto and i decided that my memory alone was not a suffiecnt tool for recording such beatuy, so we went to a huge electronic department store. In the end i picked up a pretty rad camera for the equivalant of about 150 quid - 5megapixels, lots of other things i dont understand, a case, a 256 memory card..and more stuff :P
anyway, theres a few of us gathering in the hostels communial area - were cooking a stew, so id best go help out! After wards we're heading out to a japanese reggae bar. haha, itll be reet fun mon!
after meeting, we wandered the streets for a place to snack: we were going to meet two japanese friends at about 8pm and figured itd be good to all eat together.
8pm came around pretty quickly, and after 20 mins waiting at the station we finally hooked up with Tomoko and Mai, our two japanese friends. It didnt take long to realise that everyone was hungry and a trip to a restaurnt would be needed, so we followed the canadian to a 'near by' spot he allegedly knew - it turned out to be 30 minutes walk away. The meal rocked and was of the style of an all you can eat buffet. Very nice.
the restaurant atmosphere was great too and it was excellent to socialise within a large group of such diverse people. I made a horrendous cultural mistake though when Oz, the canadian guy, passed me some food with his chopsticks: i accepted them with mine, something thats associated with funerials i believe and is a huge, huge taboo. I had no idea until the japanese girls jaws dropped (and i thought they were impressed at my chopstick skills). Shan't be doing that again in a hurry..
next up was karaoke! My first time in japan, or on earth, for that matter! Karaoke really did rock, we had so much fun. We opened up with girls just wanna have fun: a long, long story why involving a german guy and a buddist temple.....another time, right?
Todays been cool too - we checked out a few temples in kyoto and i decided that my memory alone was not a suffiecnt tool for recording such beatuy, so we went to a huge electronic department store. In the end i picked up a pretty rad camera for the equivalant of about 150 quid - 5megapixels, lots of other things i dont understand, a case, a 256 memory card..and more stuff :P
anyway, theres a few of us gathering in the hostels communial area - were cooking a stew, so id best go help out! After wards we're heading out to a japanese reggae bar. haha, itll be reet fun mon!
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