July 1st (a Thursday)
I find out last minute via email at work that Colare was having its monthly dinners that day. However what was special about this dinner is that it was to celebrate the time the Colare members had with the leaving JETs in our area. I ended up sitting with most of the JET girls that were there as we ate. Lawrence sung for us as the musical entertainment (awesome as usual). There was another singer before Lawrence but I don’t recall his songs to be all that memorable. In any case it was simple eating and listening. However Brett had a quiz game for everyone to play. Our teams were made up of the members of the table we were sitting at. There were questions about Toyama, FIFA, Colare and others. With fierce determination and a brute desire to crush our opponents our team won! Unfortunately the only thing we won was bragging rights XD However this was enough for us, and a lot of people got a kick out of our excitement. It indeed livened up the evening. It wasn’t too long after that we let the leavers say a few words and took a picture with them. Then it was time to take home the leftover foodz and go home. It was a good evening.
July2nd (Friday)
Today was the official Niikawa leavers dinner was today after work. We all met up in the same restaurant as our first welcome dinner in Toyama. Even Rosa came out and if you haven’t seen the name in a while it shows how often she does anything. My JTE Tommy came as well. He was invited by Lawrence I believe and considering he’s our age it makes sense. So it was dinner as usual really. Chatting about bands, and our times there, and any other random thing that came across our minds. A moment I personally enjoyed was when Christine ate a sizable portion of something green and realized later that it was wasabi. Her reaction and the way she was guzzling down beer was priceless. We lingered at dinner for some time since the boys kept ordering beers. When we finally left however we decided that being bums in a park was a good thing to do (since the original plan of action after dinner was karaoke).
SO the gang stopped off at the seven eleven, collected the nessary items (alcohol and snacks) and we walked to the park. There we did more of the same. Talking and joking around. There were two highlights while in the park bumming around with everyone. One being the heated but friendly conversation Christine, Ally, Maddy, Lawrence and I were having about the differences between British English and American English. It was interesting and definitely brought up some funny moments. The second one was when Tommy (who was blasted drunk by this point) was holding races with the rest of the group (or at least those that wanted to race). When it was a large group of racer and I said “go” for the final race, Tommy raced ahead and beat everyone else, but Brett did this slow motion run with a beer in his hand. It was HILARIOUS. I wish I caught that one film!!! Before we knew it though it was time for people to catch trains or just head home. Lawrence and I went over Ally’s to watch the world cup match between Brazil and Holland. It was interesting and through out the match we kept switching and forth between FIFA, Wimbledon and some crazy looking Jdrama that kept panning to some chick in a wheelchair with a white-haired man servant. By the time we decided to call it quits it was 2am in the morning and we both undoubtedly passed out when we crawled into bed.
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