Little Tokyo Exploration!!!

Hey everyone. So last week we had our FIRST Nikkei event of the year (not GM) which was Little Tokyo Exploration. We had around 50 people show up which was awesome!!!

Anyway we started off at JACCC and played a couple of games. The first one was to find someone with the same _____ (the person in charge chooses these categories) where you find someone who has the same something as you. The second game was the three syllable game where you pick a three syllable word/phrase, make an action that goes with it and then try to knock out other teams by doing your action and word and then sending it to another team by calling out their word and doing their action. Of course my group’s was our club logo: Daruma! (for those of you who want to know what a Daruma is, show up to our next GM on Tuesday, September 16) and of course we won =).

After that was lunch. We all split up into a bunch of groups and went to eat lunch at different places. Kind of a bummer that we couldn’t all have lunch together but I don’t think there’s a restaurant that can hold 50 people. My group went to Curry House and had some pretty entertaining conversations. I think we talked a lot about China for some reason. The food was pretty good (I had a curry wrap. It was good but they didn’t wrap it very well) and we were all satisfied with our meals except for one thing: dessert! So we were off to Yogurtland and of course everyone else was also there. In fact we pretty much filled up the whole store. I feel like that might turn into a Nikkei hang out spot in the near future…

After that I headed over to Mitsuwa with a small group to buy some groceries/ play at the arcade. I think the most entertaining moment was the shopping cart ride I got from Kim. Yes it was better than the whole 2packs of curry I bought. All-in-all it was a great event. I wish I got to know everyone who came but since I didn’t you all should come out to more Nikkei events that are coming up!

See you all soon

-Mario