This was a great week! I had dinner with various friends throughout the week despite being at my far school and getting home late. Nothing super exciting happened during the week, but that was okay because I had a packed weekend!
I woke up early on Saturday to get ready for the Halloween party in Fukuoka that night. My friends were coming over for dinner, so I mostly cleaned and did laundry in the morning. Once my apartment was presentable I dyed my hair and made a few small alterations to my costume. Leah came over early to help me cook and to finish off the last bits of her costume. She helped me do the last few bits of cleaning and helped me get dinner started before everyone arrived. We had a lot of fun getting ready together and finished dinner just as everyone arrived. We ate pretty quickly before catching a train into Fukuoka. Even at Kokura station before leaving for Fukuoka, people wanted to take pictures of us all in our costumes. It was great! We took two pictures, one with a groups of girls about our age all dressed as devils, and two little kids dressed as princesses wanted to take a picture with just me. We met two more of our friends on the train and had seven of us all together when walking from Hakata station to the area we would be in, closer to Tenjin.
We went to an event called Night Walker, a bar crawl in Fukuoka where everyone dresses up. We saw so many amazing costumes! People but a lot of effort into them and they all looked amazing! We saw everything for Iron Man and Captain America to Where's Waldo to zombie Sailor Moon. Everyone was dressed up! We saw Pikachu and the full cast and titans from Attack on Titen. We saw a headless horseman ride an actual horse down the street and we saw all the Mario characters ride scooters and tricycles playing Mario Cart music. It was so much fun! Our group eventually split up and I spend the night hanging out with one of the new JETs Megan who I really like. We found some small dance places to hop between before meeting back up with Leah, Becca, Chris, and eventually Patrick. It was a great night that I wish I had more pictures of (my phone died pretty early on).
Sunday my professor from Hofstra, Kanatsu, stopped by! He's on sabbatical this semester and studying the nuclear power plants around Japan. He's staying a few cities over for a few days, so he came to Kokura for dinner! Patrick and I met him at Kokura station and had so much fun hanging out with him and talking. We took him to Booties, and Irish restaurant that serves the best fish and chips made from pufferfish. Kanatsu really liked the restaurant and the three hours we spent sitting and talking and eating flew by so fast. It was so great to see him and we had such a nice time!
After dinner I went out with my friend Kikumi. Her friend had just opened a restaurant, so we went together. Since I had just eaten I only nibbled, but the food was great! Kikumi and I talked a lot and she asked me to perform with her and her band again in two weeks, so I'm very excited about that! I'll also work at her bar on Friday for Halloween, which I'm very excited for! Although it will have to be an early night for me because the next day, November 1st, is my 文化祭 (bunkasai, culture festival) at Shinozaki. I'm very excited for the culture festival and the week ahead!
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