Kawaguchi Symphony Orchestra, Ode to Joy

On Saturday, I went out shopping for a lamp for my livingroom. I decided to inflate my bicycle tires before the trek, and was pleasantly surprised by how much easier it was to ride. Caroline came over at 20:00 and we went to Omiya together for Tomoe and Joel's joint birthday/farewell party. We paid 3500 yen for a three hour all you can drink/all you can eat deal at the bar. That's right around the cost for five or six beers, aka, a good friggin' deal.

Anyway, the night consisted of Caroline collected orgasm faces with her camera, girls making out (not really), champaign bottle erectile disfunction (with orgasm faces), champaign bottle rectal violation, and gay prom pictures. Oh yeah. It also included eating a bunch of food and drinking a bunch of booze. Then, just as the party started to take off, Caroline and I snuck out to catch the last train back to Kitamoto. Woot*!












On Sunday, Caroline and I went to go see Jen play violin with the Kawaguchi Symphony Orchestra. They played Beetoven's Ninth Symphony, so the concert was full of familiar music. We got to gawk at the only gigantic white girl in the orchestra; completed with brown shoes and all (Everyone was dressed in all black, even Jen, so she was in all black with light brown shoes. It's funny because she can't find shoes that fit her in this country, so she just looked like she doesn't know how to dress. Ha ha ha ha).

After the symphony, Caroline and I returned to Kitamoto to get everything ready to have the Yonedas over for dinner. Caroline made a really good chicken soup, and I cleaned up the apartment. We got everything ready just before they arrived. Then we had a nice dinner, a nice English lesson, and a nice Japanese lesson. All and all it was fun and delicious.

*Woot! is a D&D term for "Wow! Loot!"**. What kickassery.

**Credit for the "Wow! Loot!" discovery goes to my younger brother Jonathan***.

***Jonathan is typically a name for douchebags, and my brother is not an acception. Ha ha ha.