Kobe Conference Day 2

Waking up at 7-something is no fun…waking up at 7-something after going to bed at 4-something is even less fun…waking up at 7-something after going to bed at 4-something and going to a meeting is…ok you get the point. The sessions were…sessions…lunch was…lunch. The evening, however, was SPECTACULAR…Okay, so maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it was a whole lotta fun. We ventured back to Harborland and Michelle, Dave, and I had Kobe beef. It was really good. They brought each of us the raw beef and veggies on a skillet/plate and you cooked it to your liking after they brought it to you. It was expensive, pretty fatty, but really good…until later when my stomach was paid me back.

After dinner a whole bunch of use ended up down in the recreation are a for a little over sized stuffed animal races and Ferris wheel fun! After playing we trekked off in search of music and people dancing to it. Let me just say that Japan really needs to stop with the perceptions of Black folks…and second of all, everybody knows that we were rocking Jheri curls in the 80s, not fros!!! Our first stop was Second Chance, and for a second there was a bit of movement…short lived, so we scuttled on down the street to a place that everyone kept calling PP and Sonic. When we got there, I realized that PP was short for Party Party and the name of the party was Sonic. I had seen a bunch of people who I met when I went to Miyazaki for Halloween and a guy I met in Atlanta (who is a dancer and whose mom and sister were so sweet to me in Atlanta before we left) at our meetings and lo’ and behold they were all at PP…so we all danced the night away…aside from the fun, there were some not-so-fun moments when people I didn’t want to talk to felt the need to hold conversations with me and continually forget my name…so let’s just say that as far as they know my name is Ashley and they have “my” number…which I hope is not really someone’s number because they will indeed be surprised to receive calls from random foreign men…ooops. Another post 4 am bedtime kinda night with an even earlier start in the morning this time…sigh.