Thursday:
Went for dinner with a friend at a nice Italian restaurant. Oddly, there is a such thing as "high class pizza." It was quite good with specialty ingredients imported from all over Japan. hung out over salad, wine and pizza. I'll be adding that place to my repertoire of interesting places to eat.
Friday:
YMCA Christmas party. I teach at the YMCA and was invited out to an "international Christmas party," slight problem was that there were only but a handful of international students and a whole horde of Japanese people. Not bad though, I did manage to meet an interesting person that works at a bar in Sendai as a bartender. Apparently there will be a new place opening somewhere around the train station and will get a call when it opens.
Saturday:
Another Christmas party. I found an event online a while back and decided to participate. Turns out that the event was organized by an English school and for kicks they put it online to let anyone join. Interestingly out of the 50 or so people at the event, I knew about 10 of them. Sendai, despite having 1 million people, has a rather small community. Well, those of you living in Vancouver and Richmond should know about that.
After the party, I went up and met up with another friend for some food who was introduced through another friend. Apparently she knows one of my labmates as her friend is his ex. As an interesting aside, turns out that she also knows another drummer friend of mine. we came to that interesting conclusion when our mutual friend dropped in and we simultaneously blurted out his name and then gave each other an odd look in shock. Yep, Sendai is a pretty small place.
Sunday -- Went to a museum with 4 friends to check out a German art exhibit from a painter born 100 years ago. Strangely I still find it hard to appreciate certain kinds of art. Especially abstract. I could take pictures drawn from elementary students and put them in this exhibit and you'd never tell the difference. Hmmm... how'd someone like to play an April Fool's joke on a museum?
Coming up:
Wednesday -- Hot pot party at home
Friday -- An event will probably materialize
Saturday -- Christmas Party (2 of them)
2 comments:
Damn you and your parties.
I'm stuck in some black hole of death (i.e. the law library). I haven't been to a party in over a month. I hardly even remember that Christmas is coming up.
Haha, nanotech is hard work isn't it?
Well I guess we'll see the difference after you graduate and start making 6 figure salaries :)
how was your meet up with Ed?
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