新年 (New Year's Day)
Happy New Year! If you're reading this now its probably from the safety of your bed as you recover from a lingering hangover. I thought I'd be doing the same thing, but I guess all that Okinawan soba soaked the Orion and awamori floating around in my system right up.
MaryAnn and I spent most of the day chillaxin in bed watching episodes of Bleach, but in the afternoon her supervisor, Matayoshi sensei picked us up and we went over to his family's place for a huge dinner with a hilarious cast of characters. Matayoshi sensei has a rather large family, including four brothers, a sister, a wife, and a whole rack of kids...not to mention his own parents. Everyone was present and accounted for. His English is the best out of the group, but everyone else ain't half bad themselves Fun fact: apparently when Japanese people get together in large groups, they generally divide themselves into boys and girls groups. All the women were in one room talking about...whatever, while the guys (and MaryAnn) were in another room drinking and watching wacky ass Japanese game shows. I wonder if they're really wacky, or if they just come across that way because I don't understand all the Japanese being said and the hosts are usually yelling out things accompanied by weird camera angles and cartoonish sound effects...
And now the question is will I be in Japan a third year to celebrate New Year's on foreign soil again in 2011?
