Today is the last day of class for a while. We have hiking tomorrow and Golden Week for most of the next week. So I have some time to read up on my kanji and study through my books. I was invited to karaoke for Candy's birthday. (No that's not her real name and no she is not a stripper... unfortunately.) Most of the people from China and Korea who feel their names are too difficult to pronounce use fake English names when they study abroad.
Eight of the people from my class and two other people from some other class went with us after class. I really didn't pay attention to the plans, because if I had known that we would stay at the karaoke joint for four hours I would have been busy or sick. The people I went with didn't even want to drink! Who sings karaoke without drinking? Not surprisingly, everyone their with one or two exceptions were excellent singers. I guess that's normal when singing karaoke is a typical past time for most of their lives. What was really amazing was that the people who scored at my level on the Japanese placement exam were able to sing their (_!_)'s off in Japanese.
Shou and Chin are both hard core anime fans, so every other song they sang was the intro or closing theme for some popular anime. Everyone wanted to hear me sing in English but I refused in protest of the no alcohol policy they were forcing no me. Even when I said that I would pay for a pitcher so that I could drink they said they didn't have money. I hope the later students who have part time jobs aren't so broke that they can't enjoy a few drinks now and again.
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