Had a priceless moment the other day. After this semester's completion ceremony, around 110 of us decided to head off to a bar for a good old-fashioned 飲み放題(nomihoudai), "all-you-can-drink party." The best part of this is that most of this group was exchange students and because we have no idea where we're going, we decide to all head in a massive pact of about 50 people to the local bus stop. When the bus comes, we were surprised to find that there was not a single person on it. Luckily, that means all of us could find a seat. So we all seat down, taking up every seat on the bus might I add, and at the next stop, a few Japanese students get on. They look as if they've just seen a ghost. "Where on earth have all these foreigners come from? And why do they all know each other?" Those were probably their thoughts as we joked around, and had a general good time for the next 40 minutes of our bus ride.
When we got of the bus, we walked to the bar where we would be meeting all of friends. We're waiting outside the elevators to get on, when the elevator doors open. Unfortunately, it's full, but that doesn't mean we didn't have a bit of a laugh first. It went something like this:
Doors open.
The Japanese people inside let their jaws drop and stare at us like we're some kind of crazy foreign being. One guy goes "How-how 何と言う("how do you say it?") How do you do?"
The guy next to him sees our British friend and goes "Harry Potta-"
And then the doors close.
We board the next elevator and go up to the fifth floor where the bar is.
Doors open.
Small band of middle school children stop dead in their tracks and wonder what on earth is going on.
Our friend goes "How do you do children?"
Children look terrified.
We enter the bar and have a great night.
Oh, the fun of being a group of 50 people in a foreign country.
Michelle
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