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Published: March 1st 2006
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Karaoke
Me, Mrs Kaneda and Mrs Inaba Friday night Belinda and I went out with Tomoko (our principal) and two other Japanese staff to Karaoke. Karaoke here is great! You have small private rooms, with books and books listing old, to very recent songs (Japanese and English). To order food and drinks, you just pick up the phone in your room and order what you want. We chose a fixed price for unlimited drinks, which included any kind of drinks (spirits, beer, cocktails) for only $20! We took advantage of this! When our karaoke time was up (11pm), Belinda and I didn’t want to go home so we caught a cab into town and went to a small club called Flyte Time. It was ladies night so for about $24 we got unlimited drinks here too! We were hardly dressed to go out but it seemed like 'oldies' night aswell so it didn't matter. At Flyte Time you get your own table (ours was right next to the dance floor) and there are waiters. They give you wet towels to wipe your hands every half hour or so too. The dance floor at Flyte Time is quite small. For about an hour there was this Japanese guy who
Tomoko & Belinda
Piling up the drinks! knew lots of great dances, so everyone was copying him - it was so much fun, even the bar guys joined in! On the way home we demanded the cab driver stop for food, he was very nice about it as we were trying to look up in my phrase book the word for ‘food’ and ‘hungry’ - he understood us and laughed! I think we got home at 4am.
Saturday I had the best sleep in! At 2pm I had a hair dresser appointment across the road. The girl who cut my hair, Okada, was so nice; she had made little English notes for herself eg. Do you like it? Would you like it cut diagonal? By the end, her and a male hair dresser had their little Japanese-English dictionaries out asking me general questions (and also if I would teach his wife and 3 year old child English). Okada found in her language book “I was nervous”, how cute! They are very particular about how they cut hair, very careful. I had my hair washed twice - once before my hair was cut and once after. The chairs you sit on to have your hair washed are
so cool! They are like dentist chairs, in that they move up and back, but not so scary. Where you rest your head when your hair is being washed is heated!
Saturday night, we went to a fantastic burger place called Mos Burger, then hired some DVDs (Be Cool & Cinderella Man) and had a quiet night in.
On Sundays, sleeping in is first priority! Then Belinda and I decide what to do for the day, sometimes it is nothing, or we will go for a drive. This Sunday we drove to Hamamatsu, which is a city about 2 hours away. In Hamamatsu, we couldn’t really find anything on the map as the roads are SO confusing! They have no real street names in Japan and only really big main roads are numbered, and the numbers are difficult to find! We found one temple just by accident - not that they’re difficult to find because they are everywhere. The castle we wanted to see that we
did find (after about an hour driving around the city), was closed!
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