晩御飯楽しかった Dinner was fun

I went out for Ramen for dinner with a fellow ILP student. The food was good, and after we were done the women working there asked if we had time. I thought she meant time in tokyo, but she meant, do you want to leave now or later? We ended up staying for a while and a tonari ni suwateiru man sitting near us started up a conversation. He was middle aged, a little bit intoxicated, and very fun to talk to. It's nice to get to practice Japanese in ways like this. We talked about various things, and eventually I found out that the ramen chef was from hamamatsu. I think that I impressed them with my vast knowledge of hamamatsu, its kite festival, harmonica hotel, tenpura, Brazilians, etc nado. They even knew about the orange kitchen! (funny huh?). They did not however know what I was talking about when I asked why everyone had corgis. Maybe its a new thing?

Oh man, also, the man hated kansai ben, honma ni mecha mecha omorokatta ya na. So I stepped my kansai game up a notch, it was fun and funny.

In conclusion, dinner was fun, I hope to have similar experiences in the future both there and elsewhere. Maybe eventual I will be able to start conversations myself. Its very late now, though, and I have class early, so its time for bed. Oyasumi!!