nothing to prove

recruitment

So once you have a Zima contract the obvious next step is recruiting people that you feel are qualified into the inner circle. Emily was one of those people we just couldn't deny. Even on Melissa's birthday, which was officially Wednesday but the party was Friday, she was promoting Zima. The izakaiya (a restaurant bar) we went to had amazing food that just kept coming. To top it all off we actually bought the place out of Zima, sad but true. Even Will, our other Zima partner, didn't get one because our end of the table had some many. Despite all the hoopla about Zima the night was actually about Melissa and her becoming an old woman, the big two three. Happy Birthday Melissa! After the nomihodai and tabehodai we went to karaoke to party it up some more. We met up with some Japanese folk who were pretty excited to sing with us. I ended up being really tired and almost passing out so I headed back a little eaier than the rest of the crew at 3 in the morning.


The following day was filled with extreme laziness for the most part. Despite feeling extremely dirty from the previous day we all managed to go get some ramen for a late lunch. Then after a quick nap we headed to the Maki beach to lay around and play in the garbage. Yes, you read that right, even though the Japanese are extremely clean their beaches are extremely dirty. We waded in the water from time to time but for the most part only managed to be lazy. After dropping everyone off, Melissa and I headed to the nearby onsen (hot spring) to get clean, finally! This place was amazing and it took us an hour to get out of there. Then, we got some dinner at the local family restaurant. On the way in we thought we say the yakuza (Japanese gangs) congregating next door and rushed in so they didn't have a chance to check out the foreingers.

At least Melissa and I had less hair to worry about through this whole experience. A little random but a great time to mention that on Wednesday we got haircuts together. I know, something I swore not to do because of the fact that I don't know enough barber shop Japanese but hey, it was free. Now before we got ourselves into this, up to the point when he started started cutting our hair, that the reason it was free is because he was still a stylist in training. We were the practice heads! At least in my case, it was a good thing one of the other barbers was around to fix my hair but Melissa got the Japanese girl mullet. We both freaked a little about her hair and she ended up getting it cut the next morning to the cuteness you saw from her birthday party.

posted by Aaron @ 2:37 AM