Halloween

Back at home, I dont think I ever really celebrated halloween much. I mean I remember as a kid carving out pumpkins, dressing up and all that, but past the age of 8 I dont think Ive ever really cared for Halloween at all. But now thats different. I just had an absolutely amazing Halloween, following the three importants "DR-s": dressing up, drinking and dr...eating cake? Ok its hard to think of a third word that begins with dr, but much fun was indeed had.

Halloween started about a week ago, when Leon and Saori invited us out to a sports 'theme park' called Spo-Cha. Annoyingly, thanks to Erling, we both turned up in costume as he told me that we were spending the whole day in costume - which wasnt true. And to make it worse, my costume was a last minute costuming consisting of a bloody tshirt (ketchup), a surgical mask and spiked up hair. So when I turned up I looked like an idiot. Luckily spo-cha has a vending machine for tshirts (100yen/50pence tshirts, yes!) so it wasnt so bad. The place itself was class, you pay for a few hours and you get access to rollerblading, baseball batting booths, golf, archery, shooting, football, basketball, tennis, badminton, table tennis, karaoke, a free arcade, pool, darts, bowling and many more activities. After trying out most of them, we all spent a fair while on the rollerblading which was ace - turns out ice skating all those years ago at disneyland, newcastle and mowbray really paid off because I didnt fall over once!

The day before Halloween, Matt and others invited me out to a Halloween party in a club in Shibuya called Womb. Interesting name, and a pretty interesting club - it was seriously packed, and everyone in there seemed to be foreign or atleast spoke English, which although I didnt complain about being with other english speakers, it did seem a little strange. I was fairly suprised to make it in, with being underage here and everything, but the guy on the door was...well...a little 'special' perhaps, and didnt mind that I handed him 'my' ID while my face was completely covered by my death costume. He didnt question it was me and in I went. Score. The place was heaving, but the fact that it was all you can drink made up for it. You literally just walked to the bar and picked up coronas that were just sitting there for people to take. The DJ in there was dressed as Osama Bin Laden (complete with dynamite strapped to his chest), there were people in human sized fanta bottle costumes and far too many other amazing costumes here to name. After missing the last train home, about 8 of us decided to hire out a karaoke booth for the night. I tell you now, sleeping in a karaoke booth is not comfortable. Neither is having to wake up at 4:30 to get the first train home after a night of drinking AND THEN having to go to work. Fun fun fun.

That next day was pretty good to be honest. I took a pillow into work, made a makeshift bed with some chairs and managed to get some kip and then on the afternoon was the Junten english department Halloween party which was ace. Tons of students turned up and I, once again, donned my death costume. We played aload of games, did some trick or treating (well, we dished out candy and forced the kids to say trick or treat), ate cake, carved the pumpkin and Id say it was a fair success. Some of the kids got so into it that despite the fact it was meant to end at 5:30, they stayed until nearly 7. Im making a note here: Huge Success.

This last picture was taken at ICU's festival (Matt - a volunteer here two years ago - 's uni).

Pretty good week. Got up to tons, but now Im left skint. Time to live off instant noodles and rice! =D