Karaoke

Breakfast was disgusting. I have no idea what it was. Just rice for me.

Five of us went into Daiichi early today to use the internet. The damn thing is still broken, and I'm not getting any hopes up that is going to get fixed soon. We then went to the cantine for food. I had "champon" - a bowl of Chinese-style noodles, though it turned out to contain seafood. Octopus is very crunchy; I don't think I like it.

We met Sebastian-san who took us to Fukuoka on the train. He showed us around the town, where things were, etc. I don't think I remember where anything he said was. We went in to "Best", the Dixons of Japan, though they do it in style. However, after searching all ten floors, I couldn't find any Nintendo DS's, not even a PlayStation in sight.

On the way to the restaurant we came across an amazing car park: It was like a regular, home garage, but with a turn-table in front of it to spin the cars. Each car was stored on a big ferris-wheel like thing, which just span around, and stopped either at an empty space for cars going in, or at a car for collection. The car would be driven out and spun around to face the right way, then they would drive off. That's how to have a car park in a small space!

Dinner was at an all-you-can eat and drink restaurant. Shoes off upon arrival and placed in lockers (I took number 47!), they then brought out lots of different types of food: octopus balls, ravioli pasta-like things, fried chicken (kara age), and some tofu based things. They are very big on tofu here, unfortunately I am not. A guy, Chip, who was on the scholarship previously was there. His middle name is definately "beer", as that's all he talks about, and does. I sat next to him, and there's a picture of us. I am not a beer drinker, but I discovered umeshuu (plum sake)! His favourite food is kakuni (some kind of pork), and I enjoyed it too. Chip left at eight, totally drunk, to go and teach an English class!

After dinner, we went to a karaoke bar, and got a room, a karaoke machine, and all we could drink. We were all very drunk by then and made an awful lot of noise. There's a telephone in each room, which you use to order the drinks from, so you don't have to leave.

After two hours of karaoke we left, and I went home with Drummond and Lauma. I wasn't feeling amazingly well, but we managed to get back with no incidents.