面白い週末

This is a pic of the famous Mansion in Tottori at the base of Mt. Kyushou. This is where the city leader/shogunate lived from the 1800s to the 1950s. It has Western/Japanese Style architecture.

週末にいろいろな事をした。アレグラで面白い人を見ました。その人々はボテルの計略を実行した。それはとても楽しみていました。その後でバーでたくさん食べ物を食べて、ビルを飲んで、カラオケを歌いた。
So I thought I would write some Japanese for all of you to see for fun. Translation: Last weekend I did many different things. I went to a bar called Allegra where I watched two famous bartenders do Bar Tricks. They threw bottles up in the air. I really enjoyed watching them. After this we ate a lot of food at the bar, drank some beer and sang karaoke.

We hung out with some Japanese girls that Jeremy and I had met a few weeks back. They brought their friends and I got to practice my Japanese all night. They all talk in informal Japanese which is hard for me to understand because I have only learned Formal Japanese. Mitsue, my tutor says I speak beautiful Japanese because I use Polite and Formal Japanese. I struggled keeping up with the conversation, but it was still fun. We talked a lot about different hobbies. No one water skis or plays hockey here, so they find my hobbies fascinating. They all play soccer or basketball, but one of them is a SURFER! So I talked to him a lot. He told me that the surf season in Tottori is in the Winter because the waves are huge only in the Winter. I asked him where I could go get a lesson and he told me Uradome Beach which is about 20 mins away from my apartment. I am excited to go and get a lesson, ever since I was a kid I have wanted to surf.

The next day I hung out with Mitsue my tutor and practiced Japanese. It was a little frustrating because I couldn't understand some of the new grammar she introduced. Like any language, some grammar points just don't make sense. English is even worse in this regard. I had a good time chatting with her, she has been all over the world and has many interesting stories.

So until next week everyone, I miss you all!
JB