Christmas Day
I got up early to go to the Korean Japanese Church for their Christmas service. It was good. We sang a bunch of christmas songs that were familiar, just in Japanese. The people there are a bit crazy though. I had 5 people tell me that they would call me this week. And they already call me and email me a lot. And I can't really understand them when they speak because they have heavy korean accents when they speak Japanese. Add in an american accent speaking Japanese and there is a lot of miscommunication. The service was all in Japanese but the pastor is Japanese as is most of the staff, so I could understand them. But of course the Koreans don't believe me that I understand Japanese. My name becomes "Kato" in korean Japanese to add to the confusion. Even if I write it out in Japanese, it's still Kato. Japanese is hard enough.
After the service I went with some exchange student friends to the Hobgoblin, a british pub, in Akasaka for a traditional Christmas dinner. Being roast turkey, mashed potatoes, smoked salmon among other things. English christmas is exactly the same as american christmas, but the british people kept on asking me if we did certain things at christmas time. The food was really good but it ended up with this thing called the "yule log". The description of it was really nice, but it was basically a piece of dry chocolate toast. All the workers were dressed up like santa. And then at the end a "real" santa came in and ho ho ho'd and gave gifts. Good times indeed.
After the dinner I went back to the girl's flat to their christmas party. It was supposed to be a mulled wine party with 100 yen gifts. The flat isn't too big, so they were getting worried when 15 people at a time would show up. There ended up being about 30-40 people there. Somehow we got everyone to do a sort of white elephant exchange with the 100 yen gifts. But then we realized that it would just take to long. So we just passed around the gifts and opened them. I met some new people, discussed politics. Accidently told a girl that they put pepper in the wine becasue I forgot the word for spices. The usual. By the way, mulled wine is wine that you put in a big pot and heat it up with bags of spices, sugar and brandy. It's really good. Since the wine is mulled, you can just buy the cheapest wine (i.e. 300 yen wine special at the convienience store) around. Which always stains the worst. So everyone had purple lips and teeth by the end of the night.
All in all I say it was a great christmas day. I just hope I can mix mulled wine and 100 yen gifts into my next holiday celebration.
Photo Time
At the hobgoblin for Christmas dinner.
Holly and Lindsay displaying our wonderful food. Look that's real turkey!
Lindsay and Erin missed the train even after we tried to hold the door open! And Erin's not happy about it...
The christmas party.
Attempting a white elephant game with the 100 yen presents.
Some girl won a thing that keeps smoke away if there is a fire. How pratical.
Rachel's good bye part from the other day. Kate was the only one responding to "look here".
Don't sit with your legs open on the train. It's rude. And a giant exclamation point might emerge.
After the service I went with some exchange student friends to the Hobgoblin, a british pub, in Akasaka for a traditional Christmas dinner. Being roast turkey, mashed potatoes, smoked salmon among other things. English christmas is exactly the same as american christmas, but the british people kept on asking me if we did certain things at christmas time. The food was really good but it ended up with this thing called the "yule log". The description of it was really nice, but it was basically a piece of dry chocolate toast. All the workers were dressed up like santa. And then at the end a "real" santa came in and ho ho ho'd and gave gifts. Good times indeed.
After the dinner I went back to the girl's flat to their christmas party. It was supposed to be a mulled wine party with 100 yen gifts. The flat isn't too big, so they were getting worried when 15 people at a time would show up. There ended up being about 30-40 people there. Somehow we got everyone to do a sort of white elephant exchange with the 100 yen gifts. But then we realized that it would just take to long. So we just passed around the gifts and opened them. I met some new people, discussed politics. Accidently told a girl that they put pepper in the wine becasue I forgot the word for spices. The usual. By the way, mulled wine is wine that you put in a big pot and heat it up with bags of spices, sugar and brandy. It's really good. Since the wine is mulled, you can just buy the cheapest wine (i.e. 300 yen wine special at the convienience store) around. Which always stains the worst. So everyone had purple lips and teeth by the end of the night.
All in all I say it was a great christmas day. I just hope I can mix mulled wine and 100 yen gifts into my next holiday celebration.
Photo Time
At the hobgoblin for Christmas dinner.
Holly and Lindsay displaying our wonderful food. Look that's real turkey!
Lindsay and Erin missed the train even after we tried to hold the door open! And Erin's not happy about it...
The christmas party.
Attempting a white elephant game with the 100 yen presents.
Some girl won a thing that keeps smoke away if there is a fire. How pratical.
Rachel's good bye part from the other day. Kate was the only one responding to "look here".
Don't sit with your legs open on the train. It's rude. And a giant exclamation point might emerge.
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