Eba-chan came and took my car for shaken time today. He said I’d get it back in 10 days and left me a loaner car, but it’s a yellow plate. I miss my white plate! It accelerates so slowly and drops speed quickly.


I finally got to karaoke for my first time tonight! And meet two other ALTs in my town who I only knew via facebook. There were five of us total, all better singers than me but ehhh it doesn’t matter. We went to Manekineko which I had a little trouble finding because they’re building a new one right in front of the old one. You got free drinks and vanilla soft serve (I tried the melon Fanta for the first time too, very St. Patricky).

We had a small room with some benches along two of the walls. You could adjust the temperature and sound, and they even provided maracas and tambourines to play with. We could hear some guy later playing the saxophone - I guess it’s good to practice in a soundproof room? We had two tablets for music selection, one in English, and two microphones for singing. A brought snacks as you can bring your own food in. The song selection was really good, I sang about 7 songs? No singles luckily ha.