And the following Saturday...

Provocation...
Retaliation.
Ah, home, sweet home...
From left: Chris, Martina, Me, Maya, Leila, Fabien, and Chris Kozielski

In other news... I gave a scary ten-minute presentation in class on the Chesapeake Bay. I believe it went very well. The assignment was to give a presentation on an interaction between people and their environment, so I wrote my presentation on the economic and cultural impacts of the Chesapeake Bay on Maryland. Presentations were given over two days, with presenters grouped by the geographical region of their topic. About two-thirds of the class presented on some aspect of China or Hong-Kong... : /

And then the following night there was more drinking to be had! Daniel's friend from Italy, Leila, was studying abroad in Hong-Kong, and she and a several of her friends have been traveling around Asia on a break from school. On Saturday they happened to be in Tokyo, hence the outing. Dinner was taken at the wonderfully cheap and filling "Sukiya" restaurant, and the rest of the night turned into an increasingly muddled series of challenges as we attempted to go clubbing (after cheerfully drinking a great deal of cheap sake while walking around and chatting). In the end, Maya and I got separated from the others, and I assume she took care of me magnificently because I'm still alive ^ ^; It turns out the others did finally succeed in getting into a club called Atom, after we were all initially refused for being drunk (that's what we got for drinking in plain view of the bouncers). I have a memory of a cozy, dimly lit underground bar. I think I fell asleep (or passed out) in Maya's arms at one point, and then later she bought me something warm to eat after I threw up somewhere... <3 I believe I will never deliberately drink that much again. Not for fun, anyway.

In the morning, I fell asleep for a total of nearly two hours on the trains, missing my station twice, before drifting home and collapsing gratefully into bed.