Bo-nen-kai
Ok, so that was a real karaoke session with some real beer-drinking proceeding it and some real language exchange.

Good Lord Japanese people are funny when they sing karaoke with all their hearts. Tonight I witnessed Japanese men giving two of my (male) English-speaking friends shoulder rubs (including my dad) just because they liked them so much. Heeheeheeeee......

Ian-san says my host-dad is his hero. Watching him (my dad) sing with his arm around my gaijin friends made me think that he's quite possibly *my* hero too. I laughed SOOOO hard. Especially when Ian and Kaleb "sang" rap songs. My God they were bad (SO SO BAD)... and my God was it awful when they sang along with me and so drowned out my voice with their off-key singing that I couldn't hear the music. But everyone had a fan-freaking-tastic time. After today's brutal full-day of classes, tonight was really awesome.

Uh, and yeah, I sang Barbie Girl. Heh. I never realized how stupid and dirty that song is until now. I also karaoke-d Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Madonna), Larger than Life (Backstreet Boys), All for You (Janet Jackson), and California Dreamin' (Mammas and Pappas). Sweetz0rs.