JAPANEXILE

The full details of what I do in Sapporo will remain under wraps due to a nondisclosure agreement between myself, my employer, and the local authorities. The official line is that we went shopping, went to dinner, and arcade, bowling, and bed. Cori of course met us only by chance and in stayed at a separate address several hours away. Which in all truth is actually what happened to a large extent. We did go shopping, looking fruitlessly for a snowboard. Rather, I looked fruitlessly, Craig came home with a fruit basket. And a Snowboard. We did go to dinner, a rather cool baseball themed American restaurant. Exotic I know, but I had a craving for burgers. One that could not be filled by fast food. Although we went to McDonalds anyway. And KFC. In fact it was an incredibly unhealthy weekend. Of course we went to an Arcade, I don’t remember the last time I have been to a city and not been to an Arcade, its just the thing to do. I’m not a good shopper – terrible stamina, but I can spend many a happy hour playing video games! Sapporo is particularly beautiful at this time of year, lots of Christmas lights and decorations decking the streets. Odori park in particular is a little Christmas Wonderland. We watched an impressive light/music show. The choice of music was odd at times – the Superman theme tune but on a strange electronic keyboard played by a woman in a bubble. But the lights all flash in time to the music, and there was a kid at the front who was really going for it, so I was entertained. Whilst not out in town we met a group of English bankers who were living in Tokyo, who were good fun for their time, very wealthy as well, so we sponged off them for a good while. Its after meeting them and Alex (another PT representative down in Tokyo) that I’ve started doing some more thinking about life after Japan and University. Perhaps going into finances won’t make me the devil. But who knows. A discussion for another time. (more…)