28th Dec 2006

…another party last night. However, this one was organised by our RA’s (Residential Assisstants). This time no Pikacho, but I did discover where the costume came from…the guy who brought…well wore it to the party borrowed it off a friend (who lives in halls)….which begged the question why his friend had it and apparently her brother (28) bought it for himself and then lent/gave it to his sister…why he needed to buy one I don’t think anyone will ever properly explain, but it was seriously suggested that he was slightly nuts…SO, there you go.. that’s why there was a Pikacho.

The great thing about the party was that everyone was speaking Japanese as opposed to speaking mainly in English for the benefit for the foreign students…so, good practice…learnt the Japanese for ‘Poo’ (always useful) and ‘Drunk’. Anyway I got through conversations by a mix of guessing, some translation into English and Chinese translation. All good practice.
Also met a Japanese girl doing a masters in Vegetation…who seemed overly ecstatic that when she mentioned her major that I didn’t ask: 1. Why?, 2. How?!?. Anyway she’s studying vegetation on a small (very far off main land Japan) island which takes 26hours by boat and she has to pay for travel there because her university is too poor to help L. Apparently, no sampling of vegetation…just watching…photos