Seb is going home tomorrow (and he's promised to bring some Tetley back!), Morgan (who turned 20 yesterday) left for home last Friday.
Daan's girlfriend is coming to visit and they'll be travelling around Kyoto, Nagoya and Tokyo.
And then there's me - Yishi, auntie Jessie and Yishi's friend Mark are coming to Japan for the first time! So I'll be taking them to various places in Kansai, then we'll go to Okayama and Hiroshima, before returning to Osaka for New Year's Eve.
Last Thursday we had our small Christmas/Morgan's 20th birthday/Seb & Morgan's going-away party in Dorm 2. We had Naomi's deliciously marinated chicken drumsticks, Swedish meatballs and mashed potatoes from IKEA, weird Japanese pizzas, garlic bread, snacks and a birthday cake :)
Andrew had a fake mistletoe sent from home, so he put it up outside the kitchen. Obviously that led to many kisses (on the cheeks). We also did Secret Santa between the eight of us. If I recall correctly, this is what people gave and received:
- I got Morgan a Willy Wonka truck, filled with chocolates and sweets
- Morgan got Mark a karaoke microphone!
- Mark got me a レミオロメン CD "Horizon", which contains our favourite karaoke song 「粉雪」
- Daan got Reinout a book by 村上春樹
- Reinout got Andrew a mini-golf putting game for the toilet! (One is supposed to put the golf ball whilst sitting on the toilet seat)
- Andrew got Naomi a pair of chopsticks
- Naomi got Seb a set of speakers for the shower (since Seb sings in the shower)
- Seb got Daan a plain t-shirt (one of our in-joke), and a framed collage of their "guy love" photos
I also made mulled wine, while Naomi, Amelie and Mariko attempted to build a gingerbread house. It was looking good...until (according to Naomi) Amelie dropped one of the main pieces onto the floor...we just ate the rest as gingerbread biscuits.
The night ended (unsurprisingly) at Shidax karaoke in Onohara. (I swear the staff are starting to recognise us as we walk into the foyer.)
We spent almost 6 hours there on Thursday night, and came back at 0500 on Friday morning after a stopover at McDonald's (as usual). And once again Daan and I fell asleep on the table at McDonald's.
The next day I still managed to get up at 1000 for a special reason. On Wednesday evening Seb's door got toilet-papered by Daan and Reinout (because Seb had posted pictures of Daan topless on his door), so the same night whilst skyping Seb the two of us came up with a cunning plan to get Seb's revenge.
There was one time when the guys went to the karaoke and Daan commented on a poster girl on one of the posters in the karaoke. So Seb and I, on Thursday afternoon (before the party), went to print out 20 copies of the poster girl's picture, and also copies of Daan's topless photo. (Daan was paranoid for the whole day but still had no idea of what we were about to do the next day.)
On Friday we knew Daan had classes in the morning while Seb and I don't, so we executed our cunning plan then -
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