18/09/15 - Part 2

At 5pm everyone got dressed in their fanciest clothes so they could attend the the Official Kansai University Welcome Party of the year! The boys were wearing suits and girls were wearing dresses - or traditional clothing from their countries. We all had to climb mountains to get to the hall but thankfully they had escalators installed. I keep forgetting how big the campus is (and it's only one of them!) 

We had to scan our student ID's and write our name on a badge before going into the most beautiful hall room. There were over 15 food tables set out with amazing looking food, and the structure of the building itself was something to be amazed by. We all stood and listened to speeches by the leader's of the University's and it was really fantastic. I talked to lots of different students going to Kansai this year who I hadn't spoken to before which was also really good. But, still I wish there wasn't such a language gap. I just need to work hard! 

After the welcome party ended and everyone was full from the food. We all quickly gathered to go to nomihodai! Nomihodai is where you pay a certain amount (in our case 2,000 yen) and you can drink as much as you want for 3 hours! We all got really drunk and it was so much fun. There were around 77 of us in such a small bar I felt sorry for the workers. The german exchange students are especially strong drinkers. They even went clubbing afterwards! But we managed to make it home to the dormitory by 10:30pm where we could enjoy being drunk further. At 12:30am a few of us decided to walk to a really far conbini (convenience store) to get food. I can't remember why but it was good in the end! Everyone was so drunk, people went missing, someone slept in a bush, others couldn't walk. Very rough night but funny night!