My Sadistic Japanese Friends

You can see some pictures from snowboarding trip on the other blog where the safe for public conumption type posts are made. This post however is not so safe. Every great story has a night before. The night before I went snowboarding, I was hanging with my friends in a hotel.

Satomi seen here in Pink, arranged the trip and cooked us dinner. That's Kaz in the green, I think he is Satomi's BF, but I don't think either of them want me to tell you that. Not really sure what is going on there.

Anyways, right ...... the story.

Big dinner, a few beers and little Kampai! All is well, right?

And then its time to play a card game. Kaz opens up the deck and starts dealing. Satomi lays out some packaged tea bags in the middle. We all pick up our hand and start moving cards around, one card at a time is given to the player on the right. When you get all the same numbers in your hand, you gotta grab a tea bag. 7 players, 6 tea bags. You grab first then there is a frenzy to get one of the remaining. Because if you are left without a tea bag, well then you gotta eat the puke biscuit. Just cracker with some nasty hot mustard on top. I had to eat 4 of the f***ing things. I was a slow learner and got my ass kicked at the beginning. I didn't want to get sick so I had to take a break after the 4th. I felt myself starting to get a bit queezy.
This is Take as he tries to eat one. His facial expression about says it all.

After my break we made it a drinking game. Suddenly my reflexes got better. Thankfully. But in the last round, there was on cracker left. I got 4 aces and grabbed. I did not have to eat the last one.

Watch Horre eat the last barf cracker here.

8 months in Japan and I am finally starting to feel like I have built a life for myself here, friends and all. Time to go home soon. Typical.