Wednesday Night

Posted by Juanito at 01:26

This Wednesday Lok and I went to a Introductory meal for the Yosano Town JETS held by the Board of Education. It was pretty well attended with maybe 5 tables each with 40 people each and was in the Youth Hostel at Nodagawa (which was incidental not like any youth hostel I'd ever been to....). We sat at the centre table with the rest of the Jets, the Chairman of the BoE, and a couple of others (whose names and positions elude me). It was basically a meal, buffet style, it was very nice and a good time was had by all.


Some highlights (or low lights) were-

  • Having to do a very short introduction speech (a few lines really). I chose to do this in Japanese so it was a bit tough but my effort was well received.
  • It was my first chance to get us to the Japanese way of drinking. Essentially you should never have an empty glass, but you should never have to fill your own. So there seemed to be a lot of making sure the people near you had enough beer/ ice tea in their glass. Its an odd thing to have to be conscious of. Also as I like to have a bit more control over how much I drink (alcohol wise) its a bit hard to keep count of how many glasses you've had as its never actually empty. You kinda have to drink slooooowlllllly.
  • There were a lot of Japanese coming over to practice there English on me and such. Which was good, many of them were quite capable. But I don't take to being one of the centres of attention well.
  • They sang the town song. They have a town song. They even wrote it out in phonetics so that we could sing along.
So yeah, Wednesday night was a good night. Crazy, but in a good way I think.

 

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