Day 38 - Shibuya Clubbing

This week has been a bit hectic, with things to do here and there -- and emotions of all sorts floating around. I haven't been keeping up with my blogs and I've racked up yet another week's worth to talk about. Fortunately, I found a pocket of time where I can write them. So here they go -- my last week starting with Saturday.

So on Saturday, I started with a morning full of nothing, so I decided to do some things on my own. Later in the night we were all to go clubbing, so like the others, I was just resting during the day. Soon after waking up, I took a walk around town doing some thinking. When walking by the station I felt like getting my hair cut at the 1,000yen 10min barber's shop. I walked inside, and waited all of a few five minutes or so before I was seated. At first I didn't know what to expect because I was about to get my hair cut by speaking Japanese. I didn't bother looking up particular words to define what I wanted, so I thought I'd just play it by ear.

I first asked the woman who was about to cut my hair if she spoke English, and she said "Not at all." That was really comforting, but I thought what the heck; my hair can always grow back. Fortunately the hair style from the man she cut just before me was short and somewhat to my liking so I asked if she could do something similar to his. As she began cutting me hair, she started making conversation with me. It was funny because no one in the shop talked to each other, yet she and I were carrying out a conversation. It was a bit odd feeling because, despite the atmosphere, that was the most comfortable I've felt speaking with a native.

We spoke about Japan and some of the things I've done here. I mentioned I'm a student in Nihon University and spoke a bit about my classes. After the said 10min it would take, I walked out much more satisfied than I thought I'd be.

Later that night, around 9:30pm I walked over to Ashly's room where Benshiro was waiting to take some shots. It was considered the pre-pre-game before the actual club because we wanted to spend as little as we could. I polished off the rest of my sake bottle of 5 or so shots. I was good and ready to go with everyone else heading over for Shibuya's Hachiko (meeting place) to meet the rest of our group.

Once we all met up, we hurried through the rain over to an Izakaya (bar) to pre-game before clubbing. An hour or so has already passed and I was ready for another 5 or 6 shots of sake. Soon after we paid the bill, we walked ourselves over to a night club just a few blocks away. The entry of the club was just ridiculous, 3,500yen. But they do give you two tokens for drinks which saves 1,000yen. Everyone danced in the hip hop room and started getting even more drunk.

It was the first time I had seen so many quiet people loosen up and have a great time. Pop Star (Kidae) and Kenji (Clinton) had drunk enough to be dancing along side everyone else in the group. There must have been about a dozen of us and it was just fantastic. Some people left early because they felt sick or something else, but the most of us stayed until the end (5:00am) drinking here and there. By the end of the night not only had I had all those shots of sake, but two red bull vodka's and a pineapple vodka mix.

After we exited the club, it was a nice sunny morning and so we headed over to the nearest McDonalds to get some morning food in our stomachs. Once we had some food we walked over to the station and made our way home by 6:00am when everyone crashed.