I was out with colleagues tonight, and totally missed the last train home by about a minute (seriously, I caught the 12:09 instead of the 12:08), so I am stuck about twenty minutes by train and one hundred dollars by taxi from home. Fortunately, internet cafes have special deals on overnight (ie, until five a.m.) stays - so I will be able to sleep in comfort (it's really nice here) until that time and catch the first train home.
Normally, all I have to do is walk home from Tama Center station, which takes less than forty minutes, but Chofu is just a little too far to walk. Another good reason to move closer to work.
Tonight on the train I met a polylingual Japanese guy (Japanese, English, German, Italian, French) and we spoke in a combination of languages (he spoke Italian and English, I spoke French and English). Only a second before he disembarked, a French man made himself known to us and said he was sorry he could not speak to us. He seemed nice, I had nodded to him (as I do many Gaijin I see on the train). Anyways, the Japanese guy and I had a cool conversation about Europe and Freiburg and whatnot before I had to go. He was pretty cool, shoulda gotten his email address.
So, now I am in an internet cafe for the night. It makes me laugh a little, since at this cafe you have to register yourself and get a membership card. When I did it, about a month ago, I was kinda annoyed that I had to give them my details, being paranoid about such things. However, it has worked out well for me now, all I had to do was show my card and I was let in. It will only cost me about 1200 yen, so I'm pretty happy.
That's about it, time for me to go to bed. Good night.
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