One of the guys that I have been hanging out with at the yakitori place had invited me to a BBQ, and today we all met in a park just south of the yakitori place. I’ve been to a few BBQs so far, and the Japanese style is pretty fun. Everyone just kind of pulls the meat off the grill when it looks ready with your chopsticks, and one guy just kind of keeps the food coming.
We sat around and talked for a couple of hours. Both of the yakitori part time employees were there, and the master even showed up, despite having to work in just a few hours. One of the part-timers, a very quiet girl from Okinawa made her appearance on a motorcycle – and that caught me by surprise. She brought along her sister, and between the two of them it was GiggleFest 2003.
The guy that had organized it decided to try to get me drunk, and so he kept pushing drinks towards me. Unfortunately for him he was drinking along with me, and he was having a really good time. He decided to move the party over to the yakitori after it started getting dark, so we went over there and the people that had just been BBQing with us were serving us. It was a lot of fun, and I even got home early and sober. My poor host was a wreck, and he ended up falling asleep on the bench in his girlfriend’s arms. Poor guy!
The most interesting part was that the whole day, I spoke only a few words in English. Almost everything was in Japanese. Some of the folks could speak English well, but I made a concentrated effort to stick with Japanese. It worked out just fine, and I had a great time.
