The Japan team threw a Welcome Party for me after hours on Friday night with beer, wine, sake, pizza, sushi, and squid jerky all on the menu. In addition, the NetSuite Japan ladies gave me a gift - a business card holder (an important accessory for Japanese business life) and a survival pack of 'just add water' food.
Over the course of the last four weeks I have been working hard at picking up bits and pieces of everyday Japanese - I can pretty much count now, although the number 8 seems to cause me problems, and I also know how to say that something is boring (Tsumanai). Oh, and I can also say 'I have two cats'. Of course, me being me, because I know how to say that I like to insert it into conversations every now again just for fun - the locals understand what I said but can' work out why I would say it. Great fun.
After the party, Hanako and Yuka took me out for drinks at a Salsa Bar. It was one of those surreal moments when you feel like you're in a dream sequence in a movie? It was definitely pretty strange looking around the bar watching dozens of locals concentrating very hard on their latin dancing - some wearing cheerleader outfits (and not just the girls).
It certainly wasn't tsumanai that night.
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