Mast in Japan: Halloween Madness woooooo!!!!

So, on Sunday was the kinda-Kitakyushu area Halloween Party/Pub Quiz at Xelha in Kokura. I think all up there were about 60 people, 6 representing Akama. Some of the costumes were pretty funny, highlights were James' giraffe thing, David dressed as Claire, the dude dressed in the white super hero costume. Notable mentions; Claire trying to look like David (you really needed a plastic hair wig), Jenns big bad (or was it good?) witch, Yuichi's cardboard-robot-snake-thingamy, and most of the Orio students had pretty funny costumes. I was dressed as a Pac-man ghost (cant you tell!!!)

The pub quiz was a crack up, you should have heard the uproar (and rush towards me) when the question "Who is the Prime Minister of NZ" was called out. I was impressed with how well my students did in the themes songs section (as I helped out with this part, thinking "nah theyll never know this one!!") getting all but one (the A Team theme). Unfprtunatly it was not to be Akamas day to shine, I cant remember who won but Im pretty sure it was cos of the evil biased cross-dressing quizmaster, eeeeevvvvvillllll!!! Also the dual quizmaster-age of Claire and Jenn (or British-American English translation!) was pretty funny/effective

So of course after we went to Grassroots which just happened to be pretty full that night and with all the students etc it was probably the most packed bar in Kokura that night!! Thus goodtimes ensued and many dancing was had and whatnot and eventually at closing time it was whittled down to just James and I, we still had 2 hours to kill before first train so we followed these crazy rock and rollers to this bar which was called "Crazy Bar!" which ended up being not that crazy but pretty cool anyhoo. Sidenote, Japan has an endless supply of little teenyweeny bars that you can go into and pretty much claim as your own (cos normally no one else is there!) I dunno how they survive but its pretty cool, down with big bars, up with little small bars!!!

Anyways, a big cheers has to go out to Claire Kurosaki for pretty much organising the thing herself, Im pretty sure everyone involved had a super awesome time and all the students will be hunting out pubs with pub quizzes next time they go to England. chur chur (thats NZese for thanks bro!), much appreciated.

some Akama and Orio and Kurosaki crew