The parents of my friend who traveled with me to Sweden were in Sapporo a few days ago and visited my friend. They invited me out to dinner and treated me to a very nice Chinese dinner as a thank you for taking care of their daughter in Sweden. The mother I have met from time to time, a few times per year. She once came to our magic bar, for instance. The father, I think I have not met for something like 4 years. They also wanted to see some magic, and we talked about some TV show with magic that they had seen recently. Then I went off on my own to dance some Bon Odori for an hour and half. A minute or so after being bitten. When I was talking to a girl I know who had come to our magic bar about how I was bitten by another customer a few days back, she said: "Oh! I can bite you too! When I bite, it hurt really really much!". I am not sure if "it hurts really really much" is really a positive thing, but she was insistent. She only bit me once, but just like she had said, it hurt a LOT.

A day or two after being bitten. It has been several years since I trained the medieval fencing I used to do back in Sweden. Back then, I would have huge bruises and fingers too swollen to bend most of the time. People hitting each other with sticks, that kind of thing. It has been awhile since I experienced that kind of pain, so it was a bit nostalgic. The resulting bruise was not much when compared to the effects of our sparring back in Sweden, but a fairly respectable bruise considering I was "only" bitten by a girl.yo sushi menu edinburgh She says that when the bruise fades, she is ready to bite me again to give me a new bruise. sushi grade fish corona caMaybe this is some Japanese custom or something?sushi taxi online chemnitz

A week or so after being bitten. I have a yukata with playing card patterning. I also have a pair of underwear with that kind of look. Other than that, there is very little in the way of clothes for men that has playing card designs. For girls, there is however an endless amount. A random girl waiting for the elevator had stockings with playing card symbols, so I took a picture. I went to one of our magic bars on one of my days off. sushi grade tuna wegmansThere was a very drunk woman there who apparently likes to bite people. feng sushi discount voucher codesShe was biting one of our other guests (a friend of our owner) and she also asked if she could bite me.jiro dreams of sushi san jose

I figured maybe this was normal in Japan, and said that as long as she did not draw blood, why not... She bit fairly hard, but the marks were gone an hour or so later. My Japanese friends have later explained to me that in Japan it is considered weird to bite people the first time you meet them. There was no explanation as if to it is weird to bite people once you get to know them. The Sapporo Odori Park yearly Bon-Odori ("Bon dance"; ninja sushi menu jacksonville flO-Bon is a Japanese holiday) started again. Two years ago I was there dancing with my two Swedish friends (that this year left Sapporo the day before the Bon Odori!) every day for the whole week this even lasts. There is also festival style food at the Bon Odori Last year, I was only there on the last day since I had a very bad cold. There was one more foreigner there, wearing a yukata This year, I went there on the first day in my new yukata, and my new geta.

One of my magician friends showed up too, and we danced for 2 hours straight. This is a traditional dance that you do in huge groups. Lots of people were taking pictures of me, since there were very few foreigners there. I even ended up being on TV. Our secretary at work came and complained to me a few days later. She said: "When I turned on the news at 6 in the morning, there was a huge zoom up of Jonas there! The narrator explained that the Sapporo Bon Odori had started and said something like "and there were even foreigners dancing" too. I do not want that kind of shock in the morning. Why do you have to do lots of weird stuff all the time, instead of just working seriously in front of the computer!" Our secretary is funny :-) She also thinks I should spend all my free time working overtime for free, since that would be better in some sense. My friend was also dancing. The one with a "bullseye" design on his shirt. I want to do a magic trick with a disappearing pair of panties instead of a disappearing handkerchief.

One of my friends said that in a store in Sapporo they were selling panties that when folded up looked kind of like a rose, and that came with a rose stalk so you could make a flower out of them. They might be small enough for my magic trick, he suggested. I went looking for such panties, but after much searching the result is that they are no longer sold. The staff even called all other stores in the Sapporo area that might have them and asked on my behalf, but no one has them anymore. I figured there must be other ways to buy panties too, like for instance going to an underwear shop. I found a place that sells costumes, joke products, etc., and that also sells underwear. They might have some very light and small underwear. And they are also cheap. I bought a very cheap pair of panties that seemed to have minimal amounts of cloth. Once I got home, it turns out that these panties are too big for the magic trick. So now I have a strange pair of panties hanging from a hanger among my magic props.

The boss in my magic bar is born in August, and since the magic bar was open the night before his birthday a cake appeared slightly after midnight. The cake delivery shop had become a little late with the order, so they had given us a free upgrade of the cake to larger size. Which was maybe not that great, since there was just one customer in the magic bar, our magician friend. So we were four men, with a huge cake. Japanese men normally do not eat sweats, but our boss seemed very happy about the gesture at least. And everyone at a share of the cake, which was a very nice cake. My Swedish friends left Sapporo to go back to Sweden to work, so we had a farewell lunch at Sapporo station (tonkatsu). Then we went to the Odori park and bought some cake and had a cake party in the grass. I also found something called "Men's cider", which is a kind of strange name for a drink. Presumably it means it is very strongly carbonated. It was not very good. The cake was good, though. I wore a t-shirt saying "私は日本人ではありません", which means "I am not Japanese" and stopped by at an Italian restaurant owned by a friend.

The woman also working there laughed so hard that she had problems serving me my tea. She kept laughing for several minutes, and started laughing again every time she looked at my t-shirt. The rest of the people in the restaurant also laughed, and took pictures. They stopped laughing after a few minutes, though. The owner also gave me some friend squid just because I was funny. When I wore this t-shirt at work at the university, three women who work in our cafeteria saw me when I was standing in line at the coop shop (they were standing in line at the other cashier). They laughed while they were waiting in line. They kept laughing while leaving the store. They laughed when they walked up the stairs, and they were still laughing when the disappeared down a corridor in a direction we were not going... My Greek colleague thought they were laughing too much, haha. His opinion is that since it is just a factual statement, which is a true one, and not  a joke, why would you laugh at all.