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Friday Night

2006年10月20日 | Weblog
I didn’t imagine at all that I can eat rolling SUSHI here in Portland. But I could today. Moreover the taste is so good, and the price is also same as Japanese rolling sushi restaurant. There were no difference between Japanese one and American one surprisingly. The restaurant itself is totally Japanese style, but Americans are making sushi and also customers are American people, though there were some Japanese people who are trying American sushi. Anyway the scene was a kind of strange!! I think the restaurant is one of the place mixed Japanese and American atmosphere.

One of my Arabian friends were struggling to eat sushi with chopsticks. I said to him, “it is difficult even for Japanese to eat sushi with chopsticks. So you can eat it with your hand, which is also a formal way to eat sushi in Japan.” But he never leave his chopsticks on the table. Maybe he didn’t want to hurt his high pride, I think. Also unfortunately he was always waiting only for egg sushi (tamago). He seemed to dislike raw fish…. I thought a little that we made mistake in selecting the place to eat together tonight. But finally his comment, “I’ll try to like Japanese foods from today,” made me a kind of relieved.

After that, we went to see a movie “DEPERTED,” which was so scary movie. There were a lot of murders in the movie. Instead of that, there was no subtitle…..I really wanted subtitle even in English. So I couldn’t understand the story so much, because there were a lot of slungs or something like that. I couldn’t tell even who is a good person and who is a bad person in the movie. That’s why I was almost asleep. Actually I fell asleep sometimes during the movie.

After sleeping, no, no, after watching the movie, we went to the bar!! It was the first time to go to a bar here. The atmosphere was much better than I expected, because my image of American bar is like a little dangerous place. But there were no crazy people like those I imagined before. Though I had knew that America is so strict on alcohol,it was surprising for me that there was a person at the entrance who is judging if customers are over 21 or not by checking their ID card or passport. Also it was surprising that there were no menu of alcohol, which means you can order anything you like. But it was not comfortable for me because I don’t know a lot about alcohol… Anyway I ordered one glass of alcohol somehow. I found a lot of new thing in Portland today. I was almost satisfied. Yeah

However, today didn’t end safely here. We went out of the bar, and headed forward the bus stop to go back to the campus. !!!!!!!!!!! The last bus had left already when we arrived there. We completely misunderstood the time schedule of shuttle bus from there to the campus. We were just waiting for taxi coming. It was so cold. It was so miserable. And it was so happy when a taxi stopped in front of us. Our long night ended like that at last.