i really miss this place....
also found this really funny story while picture hunting...
There’s this website I discovered here called findateacher.net. (see the link to the right) It’s a way for English teachers and other language teachers to find Japanese students, and vice versa. I haven’t got any bites on my profile yet, but I don’t really care, I’m busy enough as it is to deal with getting my own private students on the side. The real reason to join this site is they have these international parties on the first Saturday of every month at this club called Pure in the Shibuya section of Tokyo. (And if you’re really ambitious, every second Saturday in Osaka) So I hit this up last Saturday night with a couple of my English teacher colleagues. For 2500yen (about $21US - and that’s the last conversion I’ll do for you) you get all the Domino’s pizza and mixed drinks you can humanly consume from 6:30-9pm. We rolled in there around 7:30 after working all day, and went to work. After several pieces of pizza and about 6 stiff Jack and Cokes, I was feeling no pain. I got 3 “leads” for new students, only one of whom I was really interested in. Maiko was 22, and there with her mom. (Japanese chicks are a little different, enough said) So I was chatting them up for a while by the pizza table. This girl spoke little to no English and her mom was literally acting as a translator between the two of us. I had to try to get her number, just had to. So when I asked her “denwa-bango wa nan des ka?” (what is your phone number?) she actually turned to her Mom for approval, which was granted. Let me remind you, she was 22, so this was in no way as sketchy as it sounds. Anyway I got the bango and it was written on the back of a map that got us to this club in the first place. (You need maps here, addresses are impossible to find) So later on I handed the map to my buddy so he could tell his friend how to meet us, and this guy loses the fucking map with her number. Not daijobu (cool). Anyway maybe it wasn’t meant to be, but Maiko-san, if you do learn English and happen read this blog, please contact me. Domo Arigato Gozaimas. (Thank you very much)