New Year's Eve I spent with some friends I've met here. First, we were at the pizza all-you-can-eat, what with the exorbitant prices, the pizzas have usually the only sensible way is to get it. After that we went to drink it in a bar in Roppongi on a "Countdown Party" reinzufeiern. Except for the excessively high prices for drinks in a bar said that was all very funny, was just disappointing that despite the name no countdown the New Year rang in, but only a "Happy New Year" by the DJ. About three clock we had the crazy idea to make again a little karaoke, but had to find out that the idea was not crazy, since almost all karaoke bars fully extended in the area. The rest of us were too expensive, so we bit of a running through the streets of Roppongi, which were full of celebrating non-Japanese.
The Japanese Imperial Palace in Tokyo is not normally available to only two days a year, you can at least see a bit of it. One is the birthday of the Emperor, currently the 23 December, and second, the second January, at which one New Year's Greetings the imperial family can receive. Of course I wanted to not miss with a friend and I drove to the palace. To coordinate the huge crowds, all visitors were already driven hundreds of yards outside the gate by way delineated, checked and scanned.
On a large square, the crowd has gathered and then patiently waited until the next appearance of the imperial family on the balcony. When these then came forward all their Japanese flags have coiled, which were previously distributed, and some older Japanese women have sighed with delight. The Emperor spoke a few words, the family waved to 3 minutes and then disappeared again. This part of the palace was not even very nice and the visitors were mostly tourists, but whatever. I have seen the Japanese Emperor in real!
Quite surprisingly I've got the years between the way the message that I am from January to March, presumably from surplus, the JASSO scholarship get paid. Currently I share my one with Michael, so we now get both in these three months, twice!
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