A message from ground control

So we've finally done karaoke! It took me three weeks, which I don't really know why... but now it has been done, and my GOD was it fun!

We started by gathering up like 20 people from the guesthouse and went to a local izakaya (which is a japanese-styled bar/pub) and had some beers and some complimentary food to go with it. Once there, we talked about everything ranging from foreign policy to what people called their penises. After spending about an hour and a half there we went almost right across the street and we found a karaoke place on the fourth floor. Japanese-styled karaoke places differ somewhat to western places. For 2000Y (120kr, $19) each we got two rooms (because we all couldn't fit in one) and we could occupy them for as long as we wanted to. Meanwhile, the staff entered the rooms every so often to provide us with life's all necessities: Beer, drinks, snacks and food. The beers and drinks were of course totally free.

Since we were at that karaoke place from about 11pm to 5am, I think they didn't really make a profit out of us... I think most people had around 8-9 beers just at the karaoke place, not counting the ones from the izakaya ;P You gotta love the fact that a karaoke place were open until the morning (and I don't know if they actually closed after we went...) on a sunday!

Needless to point out, singing Queen classics after 8 beers was certainly a challenge, all be it entertaining!

I think the place had every song ever recorded, or so it seemed. Some girls insisted on spamming Disney songs, while us swedes hopelessly tried to harmonize to classic Bowie songs. It all seemed to work out very well actually, back then... but I'm not sure if I want to hear a recording afterwards.

Anyway, I *just* got a call from Eunmi-san from class when typing this. Apparently we're having some sort of class-get-together in Shin-Okubo at 7PM tonight. I better hurry and grab a shower cos my body odour resembles that of a dead weasel.

See ya!