After riding back to the station with Iwaie-sensei it was past 6pm, so I decided to head straight to dinner. I wasn't sure where to go as I felt like Kappa-sushi, Minato-ya and Ako-pan, but in the end decided on Minato-ya. It turned out to be a lucky choice, hehe. I was chatting with Minato-san and running around behind the counter (muahaha) when a couple of guys came in that I vaguely recognised. They recognised me (of course) and waved a vague hello, so I returned the favour and accidentally guessed one of their names by asking 'genki desu ka' rather timidly, and having him say that yes, his name was Kenta. Hehe. You definitely win some.

A while later a few more people joined them and I found out that they were all teachers from Jousai primary school. Most were early to mid twenties too, which was amazing. It turned out I'd met Kenta before when he had come in for dinner previously and Minato-san and I were reading my 'Dirty Japanese' book. That was a funny night, and Minato-san later told me Kenta had bought the book on the Internet as soon as he went home that night, lol. Crazy times. Anyway, I was tired and stinky from school and didn't want to interrupt the group, so I just sat there and talked to Minato-san. He was up to his usual games, of course, and listening in to him talking I managed to work out that he was asking the girls there if they had boyfriends, hahaha. Cheeky bastard.

Anyway, eventually Minato-san told me they wanted to speak to me, so I went and sat with them all and we all chatted away in Japanese and English. They can all speak a bit of English because they teach it at school, and one girl in particular, Sayaka, could speak really well as she'd studied overseas. Eventually, they headed off to karaoke and invited me along, which was very cool. Unfortunately, one of the girls got rather drunk and they had to call her parents to come pick her up (lol, never good) so that put a rather early end to the night. Still, it was great fun while it lasted :)