A week after the first Christmas party,
another was planned, this one however was organised for by Japanese
people so it lacked the usual Christmas pap that I annoys me to no
end. This one organised by Keita for the volleyball club and we had
it had the usual haunt – Azitos. We had to bring a gift to be put
on a table and through janken (rock, paper, scissors) we would
determine the order of who would go up and choose a gift. But first
was the kampai and even though we paid ¥4,000
for the dinner which was already laid out on the bar, our drinks were
free. There was so much good food including a chicken which one of
the volleyball members reduced to shreds with his carving knife for
15 minutes as we looked on, hungry.
Like
every Japanese party it was all about the delicacies and the alcohol
so we had a kind of shabu-shabu with marlin meat and scallops,
gourmet pizza and karaage chicken, while Maggie and I drank cassis
and peach liqueur. At frist we were all lined up along the back wall
of the bar sitting on barstools and being quiet but as the night wore
on we got louder and louder until it was present opening time. I had
packed NZ gifts into a nice bag and decorated it up nicely, but the
guy who picked my present looked like a possum in the headlights as
he opened it gingerly, looking like he half expected a giant weta to
come crawling out of the foreign package. The present I received was
two massive bags of umaibou (literally translates to 'delicious
stick'), while Maggie got a takoyaki grill (which I'm jealous of).
Maggie couldn't think of a present to give so I told her to wrap up a
box of Pop-Tarts as she had a ton of them so she gave those with the
chocolate muesli bars.
I
don't remember much of the rest of the party but it was fun and I got
closer to the volleyball members who usually avoided me but as usual
the loud ones like Tak-chan were the best ones to talk to and aren't
afraid to make jokes, not caring if it'll offend you or not. Next
week is the last week of school and then it's Tokyo time!! Much to be
done!
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