YOKE / Thanksgiving Dinner

Today started off pretty early. I had to get up around 7am to leave my house around 8am to get to the YOKE office around 9:30am. It's really not that far away, but it takes forever because I have to walk to the station, and then the train is slow as hell and then I have to walk to the YOKE office, which is far from the station.

When I arrived, another member arrived about the same time. So we started working on some materials to pass out. Then the rest of the time, I was just an observer. They were far behind on things so they had to take up a lot of time to catch up. They covered a lot of material, and it was good for me to listen to their Japanese. It's not improving, but at least it's still being kept up. I've really not improved in Japanese. I don't study hard enough and I never practice it. At least my comprehension is still ok. I took all the delegates pictures, and then helped them with their workshop materials and preparation.

Then afterwards me and a couple of people went to go get lunch. The meeting was about 4-5 hours long, so we were starving. We went to my favorite chinese food restaurant in Japan, Bamiyan. I got the usual Fried Rice, which was delicious as usual. I think next time I will try their ramen. From there, we all parted ways since everyone was going to different places. I started to head towards Harajuku since I was supposed to meet CP and my boss to have Canadian Thanksgiving dinner. It's the same dinner as in America, but it's celebrated earlier.
I skipped a part, I arrived around 4:45pm when we were supposed to meet at 5:45pm. So I just walked around to tour the place, since I haven't been there for about a Year.

It reminded me of the time when YYto and I went there. I was waiting at the train station for about 2 hours and called repeatedly until CP answered the phone and gave me directions to get there. I didn't feel so bad because I was the one waiting. And my boss, AOwa just arrived there one minute before I did. By the time I arrived, they had already ate the tri-colored soup, and salad with wild berry sauce.

When I got the soup and salad, the rest of the people ordered the turkey dinner, but i caught up quickly. I was starving. The meal looked pretty big, but for a thanksgiving dinner, it was small for me. I finished it quite quick. It was kind of cold too, but I'm sure it was cold because they were waiting for me to arrive. It consisted of Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed Potatos, Cranberry Sauce, Green Beans, Carrot, Brocolli, Cauliflower, and gravy. But then again that's not my fault. The pumpkin pie was delicious, but rather hard. It was a challenge to eat. So, it was good.
Afterwards, CP, AOwa, and I went with two other people from New Zealand to a bar called Soho's. They had some more drinks, and I stuck with my water.

Damn, it's embarrassin. But oh wells. Grant, one of the people from New Zealand, mentioned something about a book that my sister mentioned to me yesterday. It was really quite interesting and now I'm on the search to find it and read it. I heard it's a really good book from EVERYONE, and so I don't want to be left out. I must go find it. From there we left to go home, it was really a long trip for me to get back. But when I did, my work still wasn't finished, I wanted to get the pictures sent out to everyone so I wouldn't have to worry about it the next day. I didn't end up sleeping until 3am, which is really late for me since I normally go to sleep around 10pm because I have to get up so damn early