My head hurts. I finally got up at 3pm today.

Needless to say, our mate Jonathan's party last night/this morning was pretty wild.

It all started at 5.30pm yesterday, when we all met up to have a drink in the park near the university. It was a lot of fun, and I ended up drinking nearly half a bottle of sake.

This probably wasn't the best idea.

Later, we took the bus to Fukuoka, Kyushu's biggest city, to celebrate big-style. When we got there...woah. We really did feel like we were from inaka. Fukuoka is huge, with massive skyscrapers and enormous shops. It's very much like Tokyo, in fact.

The first thing we noticed is that the city is packed with gaijin. Everywhere. I've never seen so many gaijin in one place in Japan. They've literally taken it over.

To start, we went for ramen in a nice little restaurant. And then we headed off for the nightlife.

The first place we went to was a bar/club called "FUBAR." I'm assuming that was an intentional reference to the acronym! For 2000 yen (3000 yen for the boys), we could enter and then have all we wanted to drink until 4.00am. And we could even enter and leave as we wanted, so naturally it was a good idea. It was also full of gaijin. Even one of the bar staff was a gaijin - English in fact.

Unfortunately for me, the music was almost purely hip-hop. I don't like hip-hop. At all. So, I started drinking and got drunk enough to get into the spirit of it and have a dance.

A few hours later, we left FUBAR and went to this place:



Purely because of the name.

It was literally a giant gaijin meat market. Wall to wall gaijin. Honestly, where do they all come from? And none of them seemed very nice. In fact, they were the first chavs I've seen since I've come to Japan.

Well, none of us really liked the place, so we left and went back to FUBAR. By this time, I was beginning to feel rather ill. I spent the whole remainder of our time in FUBAR sleeping with my head on the table. Eventually, at 4.30am we left and went for breakfast at a cafe. Unfortunately, this is when the alcohol finally overwhelmed me. I spent most of the time in a toilet cubicle.

So after wasting over 1000yen on a breakfast that I couldn't bring myself to eat, we finally went home. It must have been the quietest bus ride ever - all of us went to sleep.

Well, in all honesty, I didn't enjoy last night as much I thought I might - but then that was largely my fault in drinking so much beforehand. But, at least I can say now that I've been to Fukuoka - and to a club called the Happy Cock!