Izakaya Matsuda
This summer Jesse has been working at a research company where he does reseaarch half of the time, but the other half of the time he teach business communications to people in his department. Jesse has shared stories with his students about his friends, so naturally they knew who I was and that I was coming to Japan. Jesse was going to try and have me come to class at work, but that was too difficult. However, Jesse's coworker came up with a great idea. Rather than me going to where they work, instead, I would join them at the local Izakaya where the usually eat and drink and practice their conversational english.
We all had a great time together at the Izakaya. We ordered dishes of food, like yakitori, ngiri and some dishes I have never tried before. The atmosphere was really nice because we had our own tatame room, so we were able to be laugh and be loud. I felt like I was back in Seattle having dinner with all my friends.
After a couple hours of sharing stories it was time to head home because it was alreaady past my curfew. I have to thank Jesse for calling Mrs. Miwa to let her know. After we said goodbyes we walked backed to the Miwa house. Mr. Miwa and I had travelled the route from the top of the hill near the Izakaya to his home three times that day, so I was able to remember it. This was good because Jesse or Hiroko did not know where we were going. Earlier in the day I found all sorts of landmarks on the way to remember the path back. Since I did not know street names these were the directions I made:
1. Walk behind the Izakaya, turn left where you see the clinic and the McDonald's.
2. Go down the hill until the lot where the kids were fighting with rocks and plastic swords.
3. Turn right at the park.
4. Go a block and turn towards the vending machines.
5. Walk until I see a poster of the prime minister and turn left. He looks kind of like Richard Gere, so you can't miss him.
6. Walk up the road until you see a blue wall and turn right at the end.
Somehome, this managed to work in the dark and we got home safely. Now it is time to go to bed since I need to get rest for our trip to Tokyo tomorrow.
We all had a great time together at the Izakaya. We ordered dishes of food, like yakitori, ngiri and some dishes I have never tried before. The atmosphere was really nice because we had our own tatame room, so we were able to be laugh and be loud. I felt like I was back in Seattle having dinner with all my friends.
After a couple hours of sharing stories it was time to head home because it was alreaady past my curfew. I have to thank Jesse for calling Mrs. Miwa to let her know. After we said goodbyes we walked backed to the Miwa house. Mr. Miwa and I had travelled the route from the top of the hill near the Izakaya to his home three times that day, so I was able to remember it. This was good because Jesse or Hiroko did not know where we were going. Earlier in the day I found all sorts of landmarks on the way to remember the path back. Since I did not know street names these were the directions I made:
1. Walk behind the Izakaya, turn left where you see the clinic and the McDonald's.
2. Go down the hill until the lot where the kids were fighting with rocks and plastic swords.
3. Turn right at the park.
4. Go a block and turn towards the vending machines.
5. Walk until I see a poster of the prime minister and turn left. He looks kind of like Richard Gere, so you can't miss him.
6. Walk up the road until you see a blue wall and turn right at the end.
Somehome, this managed to work in the dark and we got home safely. Now it is time to go to bed since I need to get rest for our trip to Tokyo tomorrow.
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