This weekend has been mental. Towards the end of the year people in Japan get together for bounenkai`s or end of year parties with coworkers, friends or whoever really. I had three this weekend. The first was karaoke with my footsal team who are a pretty wild group. Todays was with our landlord, a thoroughly nice guy who genuinely loves to help. Our second was a "owners of businesses" party. It was weird the variety of guests. There was a guy would owned a dog shampoo shop and the host intorduced Yoko to the doctor of a womens clinic (we dont know what he was implying there). there was a guy who owned two hotels and a chain of restaurants and towel shops. He was thinking of making a Niihama towel so because Niihama is next to the tallest mountain in west Japan I gave him the idea of rolling a towel up and twisting it around and around in a spiral so it looked like a mountain. I think he was impressed. For a big business man he was a nice chap too actually.
Yoko and I were sat at a table with a bartender who was already wasted before the party had even began. He kissed my face later in the night. We also met a friendly young lady who was actually good friends with one of my students, and as I have stated before in my blog, there is always something I regret from a night out. It wasn`t really my fault. She was taking photos of the bar and for a joke I thought I`d pose for her to take a photo of me. We had chatted for a while so I then thought it might be nice for her to join us mingling around the room. Its often awkward thinking of things to say at first so its better to go as a crowd. I prepared the Japanese in my head to ask her. Yoko saw me thinking about how to word something in Japanese and she preempted me, translating my thoughts as "You can stick that in your blog if you like", refering to the photo she had just taken. I didn`t care at the time that I was misquoted but looking back it must`ve seemed slightly big-headed to jokingly request someone take a photo of me and then pretty much say "Stick it in your diary. It`s a day to remember. You just met Owain Smith!!"
 


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Dad
01/02/2012 02:53

Mo
Happy New Year once again - now it's New Year in the UK. We went up to London to see 'backbeat', a musical play about the Beatles Hamburg days. Great stuff. Made the mistake though of trying to see the New Year fireworks afterwards from Primrose Hill near Chalk Farm. Too many pissed pre-pubescents. We were the oldest people there by 40 years. Eventually saw New Year in on St.Pancras station. Don't recommensd it.

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