Recovery TIme

Saturday Dec 1
Friday night was fun. Ten of us went to KTV. The three birthday professors, and seven other professors. When I first moved here, I thought KTV was a television station. It is a Karaoke place! There are two next to the university. There were about thirty private rooms in this one.

In the room we had, there was a long sectional two corner sofa, coffee table, Television, control panel on a pedestal, two microphones, and four speakers attached to the wall. The control panel is a computer with a screen and customized keyboard. One scrolls through the songs, eight per screen, picking out the songs you want to sing to.

I went out to the lobby where they sell beer, liquor by the bottle, and a variety of snacks. I bought 30 beer, and three big bags of chips. Total cost was 169. 50 ¥ for the beer (about $21 CDN) and 24.00 ¥ for the chips ($3 CDN).

Several of the professors could sing .. Some couldn’t. Everyone tried. Some would drink ... some wouldn’t. I tried to make up the difference. At only 3.5 % alcohol, it was not hard. As for Vicky, she was ready to go after me in the drinking contest, but when her best friend, a professor from Peterborough, found out I was from Sudbury, told Vicky to forget it.

We were there from 8 until midnight, then staggered home. A good night.

I learned later there are larger rooms, and rooms as small as three people. I also heard you can record yourself to CD.

Got up Saturday, and went for lunch with Linda. She was in a badminton tournament in the afternoon, so I went to watch. Many of my students were there, and I took more pictures (again).... about 75.

Came home and had a M*A*S*H fix. Watched ALL of season 11. Feel better now. I will watch a movie or two, and go to bed.

My biggest miss from home is a shower. I have a small hot water tank, 33 litres, or just under 9 gallons. It is electric, and hangs on the wall in the bathroom. My tank at home is 50 gallons. I miss a LONG hot shower. Nine gallons does not last very long. When I get home, I will have a 30 minute shower.