Typical Mayhem

On Saturday, the school nurse and I hung out for like 5 hours trying to understand each other. We usually end up playing this little game called charades... perhaps you've heard of it? Yeah, it's my new favorite game. After impromptu charades we end up playing impromptu pictionary for further clarification of the language barrier. I always carry a pen and paper in my bag in case I need emergency pictionary, like if I need a train ticket and can't explain where. I learned many Japanese words- made pizza, drank coffee (weird combo!) and hung out. Her son joined us and we all attempted to have a conversation via the japanese-to-english version of charades and pictionary. Then OF COURSE, he asked to take a picture of me (so he could show his friends the foreign girl, I'm sure lol) but they were so great and I don't care that I'm a freak anymore. Later on, I headed to the city and we stumbled upon a random festival (as usual), English-speaker city folk (we usually collect together like water and make a gaijin splash lol), watched African-style Japanese dancers (whoa! oxymoron, I know) and drank sake out of mini wood boxes (that looked like you would put earrings or jewelry in). We headed over to Jeff's World Bar, a foreign fave, and later we went salsa dancing. We tried to go to a place called Party Party, but the party was over by the time we got there. So we hung out in the street talking, and then walked to our designated sleeping place for the night. All in all, it was a typical Japanese night of mayhem...