Dave's farewell was planned for Friday night, Dave had mentioned that we would be going to a nightclub called Womb, in Shibuya. He also had a dinner planned, but unfortunately we could only do one or the other due to our lack of Yen at the moment. We decided to go to the club. A few days before Friday Cam found news that Sander Kleinenberg was DJ'ing at Womb that night. Having seen Sander about 4 years in Sydney, it was one of, if not the best club night out in Sydney ever....so high things were expected.
So ho right now!
We met Dave, Kumi and the crew after their dinner, which had obviously gone quite well because everyone seemed extremely loose (we wouldn't have expected anything less for Dave's farewell).
The main man (Sander)
Womb is the kind of club that you could walk straight past and not even know it existed. It's a little hole in the wall, with a small sign out the front. But when you get inside there are 4 or 5 levels, a pumping sound system and heaps of bars to choose from. Cam's idea of smuggling in drinks from outside worked a charm, except that he drank all of them as soon as he got inside, which left only 1 for Sophi. Sophi became care-taker all night, as, one-by-one Dave, Kumi, and Cam were all legless at different times of the night.
Drunken fools
Aussie boys and a Sumo and Ami's bro
We danced for a while to Sander but he didn't bring the same love that was evident at the Sydney show. Still a good performance though. We bailed at ?am, and when leaving tried to steal an enormous Sander sign from the front of the club. We might have succeeded except that Cam walked straight outside with it where the bouncers were standing. It was a great night out, and a good way to send Dave back to Australia.
The following night, we had a quiet night round at Kumi and Dave's place for dinner. Once again this “Quiet night” ended up being a very large night, as we polished off about 8-9 bottles of Sake that Kumi had brought back from her parents hometown. We spent most of the night playing Wii (Nintendo: Ten-pin bowling). Towards the end of the night we all had a little something to help us get to sleep. Unfortunately for Cam, his phone ran out of battery and so his alarm didn't go off in the morning. At his 2nd weekend of his new job, a 10am start turned into an 11.30am start..... when he asked the girls at work if this happened frequently, they said it was the first time it had happened!
The new company has a system where the students decide which teachers they want (Blue booking), so it looks decidedly bad if the instructor just doesn't show up and can't be contacted...
Anyway, a learning curve nonetheless.
On Tuesday night we went for a final farewell dinner with Dave and Kumi and some others friends to a Mongolian BBQ restaurant in Ebisu. The company was great but the food was a little disappointing (could've cooked it at home for about one fifth of the price). Basically it was just simple veggies and some meat on a hot plate... nothing special. We finished the night in style at an English style pub called the Hub with many Jager-bombs and some pints. It was quite strange going back to a pub where you have to pay at the bar for each drink as you order it (Cash On Delivery System it is called over here)
Everybody has their Red bull ready to goSophi was preparing herself for training at yet another new job, being an ALT (assistant language teacher) at a junior high school in Setagaya (our Ward). This involves teaching classes of up to 40 kids English. So, from going from having no jobs and really struggling it's looking like we are going to be quite busy for the next few months.
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