19 January 2007

Adventures in Japan no. 7


Tonight we went to Kaike beach with our Japanese friends: Hiro, Mise, Dai-Chan, Yoshii, Higasa, Aimimi and another girl whose name I always forget -- who Danny has met through basketball. Currently in Japan it's jelly fish season (and typhoon season), so you have to be careful about swimming in the ocean. Tonight's antics at the beach included:

  • swimming in the ocean after dark.

  • 2 people getting stung by jellyfish

  • diving off sand dunes into the sea

  • watching the bendy Japanese boys do back flips into the sea

  • wading in the warm ocean water

  • Mise requesting Higasa to dance naked in the dark (“Higasa do naked dance”)

  • everyone putting on “shows” with a long piece of driftwood not limited to: Higasa doing judo with it, Mise pole vaulting into the water with it (followed by Higasa and Yoshii), Danny riding it like a horse, Aimimi using it like a sword against Higasa, Mise requesting everyone to pole dance with it (“stripper, sexy dance”), everyone doing limbo with it, high jumping it, etc.

  • Mise and Higasa sumo wrestling each other

  • Learning the Japanese word for “scary”.

  • Danny teaching our friends how to 'snap' someone with a wet towel and all of us running for our lives from Mise (be careful what new things you teach people).

  • Everyone except Danny (somehow) getting snapped with the towel.

  • Sitting in the sand pushing around dirt and digging holes

  • Trying to push Danny into the water just to have him retaliate against me

  • Doing push-ups in the cold sand when I couldn't limbo low enough under the stick

  • Leaving the beach shortly before 3am and coming home wiped out

Ahhh, to be young...

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