Yochien at the Beer Garden

 

the partiers of the school...too bad everyone couldn't make it

Pretty much all of the teachers from the yochien (kindergarten) got together tonight to relax and have a good time as a unit after school today.  We met in the lobby of the hotel below the beer garden and all went up together at about 7ish.  Daniel and I felt extremely underdressed after arriving since all the Japanese teachers had dolled themselves up...something I didn't do deliberately since I figured it was a beer garden and I didn't want to be over dressed for and show up my co-workers.  Man was I wrong...they all looked SOOO beautiful. 

Anyways, after getting upstairs we realized they were the ones a tad over-dressed and Daniel and I fit right in.  from 7 till 9:30 it was tabehodai (all you can eat) and namihodai (all you can drink).  Something the Japanese don't think of as a challenge, but the rest of us do...I cleared 8 full plates while everyone else had 1 maybe 2, and Daniel had like 10 drinks while the rest of us were down at around 3 or 4.  We'd taken the train in together and were going to get back the same way after stopping at Ingrid's to say hi....so we had to dodge around the good intentions of our fellow teachers when we were offered a ride home...I'm not sure how they would have taken it if we'd told them we were going to go to a bar after just been at a beer garden for nearly 3 hours.  I'm sure they would be watching us very closely at work tomorrow at the very least!!