is it in the water? No, just the season

Yesterday I decided to get out of work early and visit Kobe University. The @ers invited me to attend a 'party' for all of the foreign exchange students. Since I really have only talked Japanese people since arriving, I thought this would be a good event to attend. It turns out that the @ers really wanted me there to recruit SNs. I didn't have a problem with this either. It turned out it was one of those forced meeting events that some crazy organization puts on so that people can meet other people; you know, the ones that most Americans skip. I decided to make the most of my time and talked to people. It was funny because I started talking to all Japanese people. Afterall, they are foreign to me. ;-) A couple @ers reminded me that in Japan, Japanese people are not foreigners, so I moved on to some other people. I met some guys from Denmark and Sweden who then invited me out to a bar after the 'party.' I also met a guy from Hungary who stopped going to school in Hungary, got a scholarship to study in Japan, has lived here all of last year to learn Japanese, as he knew none before coming and now he's studying at Kobe. Oh yeah, I also found out he was an AIESECer. I introduced him to one of the Kobe @ers and they setup a meeting. Bruhaha-1, world-0.

Then I met an Aussie who, in true Hitchhiker's fashion, I totally blew it with. Bruhaha-1, World-1. I'll live with the tie.