The Mid-Year 3 Day Kochi ALT Piss-Up Conference

Well what can i tell u about the week i just had! I can tell u it involved a shit load of beer and japanese sake and for me it extended to 4 days on it! From Wednesday to Friday, we had our Kochi JET Mid-Year Conference in Kochi! All it mostly consisted was sitting in some fairly boring lectures, waiting for the end of the day so that we could down a few beers with some mates u hadnt seen in awhile.
Wednesday, was for all JETs, and we sat thru a lecture by some chick who went completely off topic and talked about how much a japan freak she is and about how she went out with some big tall jap guy with a beard (got a corkscrew). some good came out of it when we knobchops himself (Adam) said in Japanese that he had a small penis. We had lunch at some sushi place where i ate fuck all, then went back to show how unco-ordinated i am at the karate workshop! But luckily i wasnt the most unco as vercs was first to fall flat on his arse after trying a high kick! hehe. Afterwards, we got out of our work clothes and into our lash wear and then hit the town. After a couple of pints of guiness we met most of the other JETs and went somewhere (i forget the name) for some all u can drink and eat. The all u can eat was only like a few platters of food and by the time i got up there to eat, there was fuck all! so its pretty safe to say that having harldy eaten anything all day, i got pretty pissed drinking them out of beer there. Cheers to vercs for outsmarting the waiters into continually bringing our table jugs of beer by hiding the others under the table! So, it all gets a little blurry from there. I think i was directing traffic, showing people pictures i shouldnt, saying gday to pretty much everyone, tackling fellow ALTs on the side of the road and the once we went to the bar, the beerdar came into play and i found my way back to the hotel.
The next day consisted of most of the guys, just sitting there staring at shit whilst the lectures and workshops were going on. That night, Aaron & Angela, Matt & Karen, Jo (aka. evil bitch), Paul "the wall" (BO SELECTA, CAN I GET A REWIND?), Jess and myself got together for a few cheeky starters at Hirome before heading to BIG ECHO to murder some Bon Jovi and Kylie Minogue tunes! I managed to stay out a lot longer than the previous night and on the way home we stopped at a conbini (convenience store) where i was getting random Japanese to check out the adult magazine section with us. hehe.
By Friday, we were all suffering, and looking and feeling like pure arse! You just had to see what Flinty looked like when he walked in late for the first workshop for the day! But we all GANBARE'd and made it to the end of the day after some classic Japanese lecture put us all in stitches by swearing his head off. anyways, afterwards it was back to hirome for more to drink. This time Dan and Longstaff joined in and we played bekuhai (a drinking game only found in Kochi) with Japanese sake, and it is safe to say that after about 3 hours of playing this we were all fairly pussed! Some other ALTs joined in and then some of us went of to karaoke, and others went to dance in some random bar! I joined in on the karaoke and we sang some classic tunes and drank more and more. We were all enjoying oursleves until some bitch who was with us, fucked off and left us with the bill. After sorting that out we met up with Dan, with which Aaron cleared everyone out of the bar with his chicken dancing. We then somehow ended up in a tent eating raamen? trust me , i still dont know why..... then we called it a night, and crashed at Dans! fuck im tired but i still have another night on the puss to go.
Me on Friday evening with Flinty's gf, Karen. Karen is flying back to England for a couple of weeks for her JET interview and left not too long after this foto was taken.