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  Halloween isn't so big in Japan.  Most people don't know what it is nor celebrate it.  Some stores will have decorations but it is hardly on the level of back home.  Surprisingly kindergarteners will celebrate it at school, but very few of the college students in my classes celebrated it.  I think there were only two students out of a hundred who admitted to going to a Halloween party.  Thanks to the gaijin community though, Halloween in Tokyo is pretty damn fun. 

I was a little worried about Halloween this year.  The normal partiers like Cora, the Fukuoka girls, and the Niigata girls all left Japan.  Furthermore Greg's in Osaka, John was off to the Philipines, Mitzi had bunkasai, and Christy had the wiener.  Where did that leave me?  I have no idea, but I still managed to have a good one.

On the Wednesday before Halloween we went to the annual Glitterball hosted by the gaijin friendly mag Metropolis.  As usual there were a lot of good looking people dressed in all sorts of outrageous costumes.  I seemed to get a lot of responses this year in the form of "ah Mario da" or "It's Mario!" to which I had to reply "that's SUPER MARIO to you".  I would also often get "Where's Luigi?" or "Do you have any mushrooms?"  If we had planned it better John and I could have gone together as Mario and Luigi.  Instead he went as Brokeback.

On Saturday, I went to Amanda, Yuki, and Miwa's house party.  They lived somewhere between Yoyogi Hachimangu and Shibuya.  I got super lost but on the way I noticed a bumble bee, batman, and storm.  I figure there couldn't be two house parties in the same neighborhood so I followed them and luckily it lead me their place.  Yuki works for Heineken Japan so we drank free Heiney's all night.  It's been a while since I've been to a house party so it was good fun meeting all new peeps.  Nothing too crazy.  When Christy sends me the pics, I'll upload some from this party.

Around 12, I bounced with Ginger, Ryohei, and my co-worker Tom to another party that Bobby, Ichi, Ayako, and some of the others were at.  This one was a college party put together by a different Yuki and Kaori.  They rented out a small club/bar. A lot of their friends are DJ's so we had some cool beats spinning.  And guess what I found at the party... a princess!

It was an all night debauchery with a lot of familiar faces.  Check it out yo!

Keeping young and living the good life.