It's Halloween, sugoi.
So as it would turn out, the schools in japan are not obsessed with Halloween. However, I find it almost preferable to America where we have a Halloween crazed society and now decide that we cannot celebrate it in the schools. I couldn't even draw jack-o-lanterns on the chalkborad last year in America! I could only draw faceless pumpkins...since those, of course, were only significant of the "harvest season." In school today I wore a green headband with a little pumpkin on the top that sat on my head. The students found it to be "KAWAIIIIIII." (cute) and i can't blame them for yelling it, it was. The teachers also found it quite amusing and for the whole day I went around saying HAPPY HALLOWEEN! to which my student's response was "give me some candy!" (excellent english, but i had no candy,haha)
On saturday I went to a small Halloween "party" I found this stellar leopard costume a small walmartesque store in my little city of Togane. It was like an adult onesy, perfect. I told my friend, who in turn went and bought the monkey version of the costume, or onesy. We decided to wear them on the train. that was special, lets be honest. People in Japan don't really dress up and esp. not 4 days before the actual day!! It wasn't so bad when I was wearing the costume in my little city of Togane, but once the train got a little closer to Tokyo the stares increased. I think it boosted their Halloween spirits and convinced them Americans were, in fact, a little off.
The party was a little ways before getting into Tokyo. It was at a little bar called Dragon Balls (sugoi ne?) I went with my friends Chris and James. When we got there it was quite early (see: 8:45pm) So the place looked err...lame, to say the very least. There were some mild decorations and a table with 4 bags of chips. and some guy djing with his laptop. However! fastforward about an hour and a lot of people started showing up...foreigners and japanese folk! So it turned into quite a happenin' little party and I had a GREAT time. The first guy I met was wearing this hideous mask and I asked him to please, please, please talk to me without it on. Once he took it off he looked almost normal ;) and he was pretty funny and a teacher.
We had to leave the party an hour early to catch the train, but that beat the 150$$ cab ride home. true story. A quality halloween outing. The best thing about the costume was that you had a seat all to yourself on the train. who the hell is going to chance sitting next to an American leopard?
On saturday I went to a small Halloween "party" I found this stellar leopard costume a small walmartesque store in my little city of Togane. It was like an adult onesy, perfect. I told my friend, who in turn went and bought the monkey version of the costume, or onesy. We decided to wear them on the train. that was special, lets be honest. People in Japan don't really dress up and esp. not 4 days before the actual day!! It wasn't so bad when I was wearing the costume in my little city of Togane, but once the train got a little closer to Tokyo the stares increased. I think it boosted their Halloween spirits and convinced them Americans were, in fact, a little off.
The party was a little ways before getting into Tokyo. It was at a little bar called Dragon Balls (sugoi ne?) I went with my friends Chris and James. When we got there it was quite early (see: 8:45pm) So the place looked err...lame, to say the very least. There were some mild decorations and a table with 4 bags of chips. and some guy djing with his laptop. However! fastforward about an hour and a lot of people started showing up...foreigners and japanese folk! So it turned into quite a happenin' little party and I had a GREAT time. The first guy I met was wearing this hideous mask and I asked him to please, please, please talk to me without it on. Once he took it off he looked almost normal ;) and he was pretty funny and a teacher.
We had to leave the party an hour early to catch the train, but that beat the 150$$ cab ride home. true story. A quality halloween outing. The best thing about the costume was that you had a seat all to yourself on the train. who the hell is going to chance sitting next to an American leopard?
posted by Molly Woods at 4:02 PM
5 Comments:
hott costume. can't help but love it. i wanted to go trick or treating with my limited hindi in mussoorie, but had to nix since i am supervising study hall. guess i will have to wait til our "thriller" party saturday.
i love michael jackson (before the weird stuff).
xo,
c
your leopard costume totally beats out my japanese elementary school costume i sported. my shorts were short-short-shorts...and my reversible red/white hat was just the ticket to making me look like a tiny japanese kid. i hope my student doesn't get mad at me for stretching the shorts.
good post...keep it up...
your neighbor to the west(?),
isaac
p.s. it is really cool when you swear in my blog...especially since people from my church back home read it...including an 80-year old woman.
p.s. you make me a link i will make you one. and then we can post comments and feel popular and loved and special. cause that's where all of those thoughts come from, right? externally?
remember drinking in northfield at every bar? oh, strongbow, how i love you so...
thanks for taking that "in the densha" photo. you didn't even have to act like a leopard, but you did it and i am happy.
see you soon...as in two days.
i will add you to my blog as well, i guess.
shlee
molly how do I join this blogger thing?? I know I am probably a little late ha ha. I actually have a computer now woo hoo!! anyways this blog thing is too much fun and since I am addicted to facebook I figure I might as well pick up another addiction. help. thanks,
viqui
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