Monday, 27 July 2009
Dating Party
Jake and I went to the volcano, blueberry picking on the mountain, etc etc, you know, the usual... yukata (kimono) party on a rooftop. On Jake’s last day, we went on a 50 person dating party, and surprise surprise, Jake was the life of the party, with girls screaming “telephone number, telephone number” and pretending like they were about to beat Jake’s girlfriend up. I have never EVER seen Japanese girls act like this before. It could have been the people that were in dating parties, or those particular girls, but it surprised me. One of the party organizers, drunk and entertained, “auctioned” off the seat beside me and would keep informal time, to ensure that anyone who wanted to speak to me got a chance. Opportunities for them to test out their English on a native speaker is apparently rare。