Birthday!

The Essentials
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Well May 1st came and went in its usual party fashion. I met up with my one cool roommate and a group of japanese friends and we went to a "Mexican" restuarant. They did have fajitas, but they also had those microwave burritos that you get for a dollar at a gas station...and they offered that as a meal. And i tried to order in Spanish and they had no idea what i was saying. Yeah, really Mexican. I do have some funny pics of my japanese friends wearing a sombrero.

Then we went to a gaijin bar called the Pig and Whistle. It was a blast and the tequila was flowing. After that we walked past the Thai prostitutes and entered another bar called a "280"...where everything is 280yen. That is when the presents came out. I got some good ones. A bottle of white Australian wine, a gesture book (the japanese have over 150 unique hand gestures), a random japanese "magezine" and then my favorite gift...."Making Out in Japanese"! This book is my golden possession.

AND...the book might come in handy. On the train ride home i put my japanese skills to use. As many of you know, my friends have been teaching me a sentence a day. Recently (maybe for the last 2 weeks) the sentences have been focused (not by my choice) on picking up the ladies. I have learned to ask "do you want to go have a drink", "are you free right now?", "what is your cell phone number" among others. Minutes before our crew got off the train at our stop i decided (in my liquid courage state) to ask the random (and cute) girl next to me how her night was going. I then used all the Japanese i had...and within 2 minutes i walked off the train with her cell phone number! I will let you know how things go with Noriko (the train hottie).