12 July 2008

Karaoke rocks!



The school had advertised a karaoke night for Friday night- something I always secretly wanted to do. For 1800 Yen we would get 2.5 hours of dancing and endless flows of beer. So didn't sound too bad and a whole bunch of students and teachers ended up going there.
They had a super thick catalog with songs to choose from, both English and Japanese. Most needed a few beer before daring to go on stage. Some singers were actually pretty awesome, others rather the funny kinda genre... The most daring would choose Japanese songs and practise their hiragana/katakana reading skills. Well, for anyone from MY class this would probably have been a foolish project as opposed to just daring...
The teachers were really active with singing as well. Chihomi deserved special mention, her performance of ABBA's dancing queen will be dearly remembered :-)
I was sitting with Alex, Jon and Johanna and we were more involved in emptying the beer glasses than in singing. Too shy to go on stage obviously and also slightly too stupid (or drunk?) to properly sign up for a song. We got to sing at the very end. I happened to be outside for most of the song though because I had understood that there's be a 10 minutes break (NO- it really wasn't my intention to skip). Joining for the final tunes only was not that satisfactory. Jon closed the show with a pretty good performance, Alex failed to sing alltogether. Well, maybe next time we'll have a more impressive appearance on stage...
After karaoke we felt pretty "joyful" already and were looking to get some more entertainment. We went to a club named "The darkroom". No, it's not what you might think. Neither is another club that's named The happy cock" - the Japanese just seem to like allusive names... The club offered a "drink as much as you want" option for women, for only 1000 Yen (10 CHF). We didn't realize that this came with a twist. You were required to stay till 2.30 and also you could not go to the rooftop (we finally sneaked out though).
We had a couple of drinks and danced a bit. Our teachers were still with us and of them got pretty much down and dirty with a students half her age or so. Dirty dancing contest?!. So I saw my observations from a previous post confirmed - teachers are not shy to get involved with students beyond lessons:-)
I played some table soccer with 3 Japanese. It was hilarious, I usually really, really suck at table soccer and would always loose. In Japan you can really shine with these lousy kinda skills, because they suck at it much worse. I'm gonna play again...
I took a taxi home. Didn't really know what my address is, so I mumbled something about "Ohori koen shitekatsu" - Ohori park subway. I was pretty confident that I'd find my way home from there.

1 comment:

Jon said...

I had so much fun! Karaoke again next friday!!!

-Jon