There's a Queue for the Bathroom because they ran out of Slippers

The final event of this crazy week ended with an AIESEC Alum get-together. As trainees, Phil and I were once again the guests. Most of the alum I talked to were pretty old. They were LCPs of Kobe University from 1997-2001. As with all Japanese conversation starters, I said I was from the Chicago area. Then I said Madison and everyone looked shocked. Apparently a lot of the alum visited Madison in 1998, when Madison's LCP was a Japanese student. This would be 2 LCPs before the beloved Cat, which is 3? LCPs before our current one. They also told me that American beer is lighter than Japanese beer. I staunchly disagreed, but to no avale. I also got some contacts from around Japan. I have wanted to travel to Kyushu since the start of my traineeship, but it's pretty far away, so I have not gone yet. One of the old LCPs lives there now and offered his place to stay. He also said he'd take me to a famous hot spring near his house. I then got yelled at for saying I couldn't make the trek to the southern island over the new year's season. I think I'm going to take their direction and stay in Asia at least. The last day I work is Friday the 13th of January. Classes in Madison start on Tuesday the 17th of January. This doesn't leave much time for travel or even sanity before school begins. I have just decided I'm not going to Egypt. Egypt will be a blast, but I'm going to have to live this New Year's celebration the Japanese way.

Oh, the title is a quote from Phil right before we were leaving the second 'bar'. There were four stalls and only 2 pairs of slippers. It was also extra funny as both of us were carrying bags with our shoes in them, waiting to releive ourselves because there weren't enough slippers to put on our feet. I missed the last train home and had to take a taxi home. I did awesome, until I tried shutting the door of taxi as I was leaving. That's a no no in Japan. I'll learn someday.