Enkai's and adventure!

I had an enkai the other night at the Principal of my Junior High School’s house. An enkai is basically a drinking party. Usually enkai’s are held at an izzakiah, which is a restaurant that does all you can eat/drink for a couple of hours. The principal (or kocho sensei) had an unbelievable house though, so it was fun to go there, and to top it off, he rented a karaoke machine for the evening! There was lots of food and drinking, and they even made me sing some karaoke (the chorus of a Japanese song, that repeats the same word over and over again.) Enkai’s have been known to get pretty crazy, with multiple parties continuing on after the first dinner party, but this one was pretty tame.

The next day my friend Naoko took me on one of her day trips! I never know where she is taking me, but it always turns out to be somewhere fun! A couple weeks ago she took me to a ‘Make your own soba’ place, where we made soba noodles from scratch and cooked them up for lunch! She also took me to some local farms and a park. But this time we went to Saga prefecture to the Tosu outlets! We went to the Gap and found some clothes in my size! That day I taught Naoko the phrase, “I’m like a kid in a candy store.”