So, I went out for dinner last night to this sushi bar half a block away. The place wasn't anything special by Tokyo standards, but the sushi was certainly good. I just happened to sit next to two guys around my age who were vacationing from Australia. One of them spoke fluent Japanese and had lived locally for some time before. The other was filipino and lived in Australia full time, though I couldn't distinguish the filipino ancestry. They were pretty funny guys, we spent much of the dinner time debating which couples consisted of hired escorts and which didn't. The Japanese speaking Aussie seemed to think that most did. I didn't know if that was experience or pessimism talking.
We got to talking further and eventually went bar hopping around the neighborhood.
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The first bar we stopped at happened to be two doors down from my apartment building. It was one of the many doors I pass each day and wonder what exactly is in there, Tokyo seem to have a lot of those. The bartender was a young Chinese lady who had just moved to Japan about 9 months ago and had been working the bar for about 2 weeks. I couldn't distinguish her Chinese ancestry at first glance either, but once she made mentioned it was apparent. She spoke english with a very American accent, a midwestern American accent to be specific. Turns out she lived in Colorado for many years as an exchange student. I asked her why in the world did she do something like that, hahahaha, and she mentioned that she had no idea where she was going or what it was going to belike. Turns out she hated Colorado, something about not being accepted... Along with her American accent she also picked up a very American sense of humor and made fun of everyone from Japanese, to Shanghainese, and then Americans.
Well it ended up being a pretty cool night considering that I just went out for a quick dinner and ended up meeting many cool, funny people along the way.
