Sorry I didn't update last week, nothing very exciting has happened. Also Pokémon X and Y came out, so most of my free time has been devoted to mu 3DS. I still don't have too much excitement to report, but I still had a fun weekend and next weekend should be even better!
After getting out of school on Friday I met up with Leah. We had dinner at my place then walked to Kokura station. The weather has finally cooled down and I've started walking more instead of taking the monorail. We went shopping by Kokura station to see everything the stores had put out for Halloween. The mall closed earlier than we were expecting and since we were supposed to meet a friend we decided to kill time in Starbucks, hoping for some pumpkin coffee to go with our night of Halloween window shopping. Of course, we forgot that Japan doesn't do pumpkin flavored anything, so we ended up with two teas and two small desserts. It was nice to sit and drink our tea, looking out at everyone walking to and from the station. I eventually heard from our friend that she wasn't going to be able to meet us, but Patrick ended up in the Starbucks with us. We all walked back to my place together and had a nice night in watching Hot Fuzz and Sean of the Dead. Leah and Patrick had never seen the movies before, but they are some of my favorites.
The next day Patrick, Leah, and I headed off to Jono, one monorail station away. Our friend Caol, a high school JET, was having his culture festival and the school had asked him to bring some other English speakers. During the culture festival each class set up a booth that sold food or small gifts. (In Japan, the students stay one class all day instead of having different students in each class like in America.) It was really nice to meet a lot of the students and try the different food. One class was even selling pumpkin flavored ice cream, so Leah and I jumped at the chance after missing our pumpkin coffee the day before. We saw some dance performances put on by some elementary school students and a taiko performance by some middle school students. There was everything from fresh fruit to fresh fish to buy and one class even had a beef leg on a spit next to another class selling flowers. It was a lot of fun to meet the students and it made me extra excited for my school's culture festival that is happening this weekend.
Saturday night I went into Fukuoka with some friends. There was a big bar crawl called Night Walker that is very popular among both Japanese people and many of the JETs from around Fukuoka prefecture. We had a great time and made a lot of new friends. I hadn't been to Fukuoka city much before, but I'm hoping to go out more in Fukuoka now that I know it a little better!
This week is going to be a long one as everyone gets ready for culture festival. There is some Halloween stuff going on in Kokura on Wednesday and Caol is going to cook a traditional Irish Halloween dinner on Thursday. So although it's going to be a tough week, it should be a fun one. Hopefully I'll have some good updates again soon!
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