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so i went to chibiko training on monday. chibiko is something that i hope i'll never need to do, but will within a month or two. chibiko is just the name given to kids aged 2 to 4. their parents are in the room while the lesson is going on, so they handle all of the discipline stuff. but in a chibiko class, you play a CD and just let it run for the 40 minutes you're there. its mostly singing and dancing around type of shit, but what makes me nervous is the CD. everything is perfectly timed out and all you have to do is not deviate from the lesson. people have said its a lot of fun, but it sounds boring and lame to me. i always fuck with the lesson plans now and it makes everything more fun.

after chibi training i went to some bars with paul, a guy i met at my first day of training here. hes from london and probably the best wingman material ive seen so far. hes a solid guy. so we went to some izakayas (japanese style bars) and had a few. we bought a bottle of sake and i got some tempura at this one place. it was dead, but there were three cute waitresses working and clearly interested in meeting some white meat. so i used all of the japanese i know to keep the conversation going (they didnt speak any english) and it would have been going great if they werent working. they'd vanish for long periods of time before walking through the bar area again to strike up conversation. it was fun but we left to catch the 9pm train (the last one home from toyohashi). paul and i bought some beers for the ride home and i wrote in my journal while i nursed it. the fact that you can drink beer in public and even on trains is quite awesome. while it may be frowned upon by some of society, that part of society doesnt hang out with me and i can get away with anything anyway.

im working 8 hours of overtime tomorrow, thursday, so i wont get a chance to update this blog again until at least friday. as friday is blessed st. patrick's day, i might not make it all the way downtown to post or write email. brian and i have stocked up on guinness and whiskey so its gonna be a day spent drinking early and staying out late. im gonna bring my camera and then let you all know how they celebrate the holiest of holidays in japan.