akp thank you party for the doshisha students

left to right: chiai, me, masato's friend && masato

before the thank you party, i really didn't know what to expect. would we all just sit together and eat? i was worried that we wouldn't be able to mingle with the japanese students very well. on the contrary, the night was a hit ^_^  i met up with one of the students who guided me around during orientation [masato && aya] and met some of his friends from esa, or english students association.

me && manami

and then out of nowhere, i hear nestor say, "she takes chinese too." i instinctively turned around to see what was going on. nestor introduced us, and the rest is history :) through our conversation in both japanese and english, i find out that she loves shopping and the color pink! then she asked me if i had a cell phone so that we could exchange information. after having "phone sex" [i'll probably write about that at some point...], we compared class schedules and found that we are both relatively free on tuesdays, so we're going shopping next tuesday ^_^

i was also invited to karaoke tomorrow night with chiai, masato, and his friend. the homework pile grew pretty big though =\  i had planned on getting ahead tonight, but i'm already behind on what's due for tomorrow... so that's very unlikely. *grumble*