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Last night was a lot of fun. As a goodbye party to all the exchange
students leaving this week, the university hosted a yakiniku evening.
Yakiniku is basically the Japanese equivalent of a barbeque; you have a
load of raw meat and veg set out, and a small fryer. Everyone crowds
around the fryer and cooks whatever they want. Since the meat and veg is
all very finely sliced, its much quicker than a barbeque. There was so
much there - beef, chicken, squid, pumpkin, cabbage, peppers,
corn-on-the-cob; we were all so full at the end, even though there was
still tonnes of food left!
At the end, our teachers Imanishisensei and Umedasensei held a mass game
of jan-ken-po (rock, paper, scissors), in which we could pick prizes from
a large selection if we won. I won, and I acquired a very nice
Japanese-style cushion. Nick, of course, got the most random present - a
lime-green watering can in the shape of an elephant.
Afterwards, a load of us went to Jeff's Bar, as a final farewell to Julie
and Anke, who are going back to Germany on Friday :( It was a very fun
night - Tom got incredibly plastered (he sounds like Hugh Grant when
pissed, which is very amusing), and even Nick seemed a bit drunk
(something that I've never seen before). The rest of us all got nicely
drunk too :)
I've had a very lazy day today. I finally had my post-exam lie-in until
12.00, although Phil did phone at 8.00am, getting a very sleepy "moshi....moshi..."
in response. And then I got a random call at about 9.00am from someone
greeting me with "Ni hao!" I told the confused Chinese student in sleepy
Japanese that I think he'd possibly got the wrong number.
So today I've been lazing around, and done a bit of kanji. It does feel
like a Sunday.
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