Karaoke!

From left to right (Top photo: Melia, Andrew, Mathew, and Robin)
(Bottom photo: Robin and Curtis)

I went to Mathew's welcoming party on Saturday. (Mine was the Saturday before) It was a lot of fun. The food was great and I met a lot of his students. Afterwards we went for Karaoke. If you are going to stay out late in Japan you have to stay out REALLY late unless you want to pay for a taxi which could be expensive and tough since I can't quite direct where I'm going in Japanese nor would I even know how to get back to my apartment. So if you stay out past 12:30-1:00am chances are you missed your last train. Usually you decide well beforehand if you plan on missing your last train or not. So after the welcoming party a few of us went and did Karaoke until 5:00am. It was a lot of fun.

The next day (well I guess technically the same day) I woke up around 2:30pm and got ready to meet my co-worker Roger and a few other people at the Nishi-Funabashi station for Tennis. We carpooled to the Tennis courts from the station and played a few games. I enjoyed it quite a bit even though I felt a little tired from the Karaoke. Afterwards I went with a few people to Denny's. Wow, the menu is quite different than in the states...but...maybe Chad and Heather can guess what I had...haha... There was all kinds of interesting stuff on the menu. I can't even explain, but they seem to take it more serious than Denny's in America.