Alcohol and Amnesia

1. I swear to God I’ve been busy and this month just flew by, but I’ll be damned if I could remember what I’ve been spending my time on. I should keep a diary not to tell me what’s coming up, but what I’ve done in the last week. Maybe I fell and hit my head and now I have amnesia but don’t know it. Ironic.

2. There has been a few entertaining episodes in the last month, some of which was recorded onto video so it might even make it online. The most recent of which was the work Christmas party, which involves 60 odd foreign and Japanese teachers, managers, and head office staff getting together for nomitabehodai, or “all you can eat and drink”. As you can probably imagine, we were a thirsty lot, and the restaurant didn’t make any money on us that day.

3. That was last weekend, held down in Fukuoka, and it was good to go down there and meet all the other teachers, as well as seeing a few of the guys I’d met earlier in the year. There were interesting (and disturbing) conversations, interesting (and disturbing) games of pool, and almost no talk of work at all.

4. A couple weeks before was an aborted attempt at a fridge to fridge. Aborted because not only was it raining, but it’s bloody winter here. The fridge to fridge is strictly a summer activity as far as I was concerned, so come summer we’re gonna put on a massive one. Hiroshima, being the size of a American Shopping Mall, is the perfect place for a fridge to fridge, ’cause no one lives very far away from the other. And Japan is a good place to do it, because Japanese drivers actually look out for cyclists.

5. (In case you didn’t know, a fridge to fridge is where you have a bunch of people riding to each other’s houses and drinking their beer. Participants would, of course, stock up in preparation, and by the end of the day you get really, really wasted.)

6. But nature ruled that out with wind, single digit temperatures and rain. So instead we grabbed what beer we did have and went to find a bunch of public places to drink, including outside the Urban View Grand Tower, a really expensive residential high rise. Right outside a really expensive looking restaurant. We know how to make a good impression.

7. Afterwards we went to Cusco’s Cafe, to a special event celebrating their 4th anniversary. There was lots of great food, lots of great live music and tons of beer. That ended up being a pretty late night. Oh boy.

8. That I guess wraps up November. December will see a birthday, people leaving, people arriving, a trip to Indonesia and a whole lot of partying. And Christmas. And New Years.

9. Signing off.

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