This weekend was good. Friday night I went out for Shabu-Shabu, which is a kind of meal where you boil meat and vegatables at the table and dip them in different sauces. It was fun and oishi (delicious). I went with 3 Americans, 1 Japanese girl and a guy from the Phillipines, and I swear that the restaurant lost money on us because we ate so much. Every time I looked over the guys were ordering more beef. It was an all-you-can eat Shabu-Shabu, so we had an hour and a half to eat all that we could. After that, I met some friends at a Salsa club. It was fun, except I don't know how to salsa. One of the friends we met there insisted that it was really easy and she would teach us. Yes, the basic step is easy...but everyone at the club was really good and doing a lot of complicated steps, dips and spins. It was fun though. Only one of the guys I danced with was skeezy and molesting on the dance floor. He wasn't Japanese, he was some sort of Latin. By the time we left the salsa club, it was after 3 in the morning. In Tokyo, the trains stop running at 12:30, but none of the clubs open until 10:00 or 11:00, so if you want to go to a club, you have to stay out all night and catch the morning train. So we went to Starbucks and sat and had coffee until we could catch our train at 5:15. Then I went home and slept until my parents called at 12:00. Then yesterday, I went to the Cursive concert, and it was awesome! The two Japanese bands before them were good, and then after the show, all the band members came down and I got to talk to them for a little bit. I got a picture with Tim Kasher on my cell phone, it's kind of a bad picture cause it's a keitai picture from a dark club...but it was great none the less. In Chicago, they wouldn't have come down to talk to people after the show and I think I would have felt weird trying to talk to them and asking for a picture, but here it's different. We talked a little about Japan, and about how they never play in Davenport cause there's not a big enough place to play. They were super nice. Okay, that's enough of my rambling on about the concert, but I was excited. Now I can add a picture of me with Tim Kasher to my ever-growing album from Japan. It's my facebook picture right now, cause I'm a huge dork like that. :-) I also went to church yesterday morning for the first time. I went to a church that a couple of my friends go to, called the Tokyo Church of Christ, and it was really nice. I think it was the most friendly and welcoming church I've ever been to. So I think I'm going to start going every week, if I can. The service was 2 hours long, I guess asian churches have long services, but I didn't mind. It was in Japanese, but they had an english translation, though we did have to wear a giant earpiece to hear it. Then afterward, there was a potluck. I guess I liked the feeling of community it had. I haven't been very religious lately, I've kind of gone in phases of faithfulness and nonfaithfulness throughout my life. In Chicago last year, I never went to church because I always worked and I don't like the church we belong to in Davenport, so I never went. So I guess I'll just see how this goes. It would be crazy if I found faith in Japan though, since only about 1% of their population is Christian. Well, I have to go do some schoolwork now, but I hope everyone reading this is well. :-)