Vilse i Japan

Yesterday (12/26) me and Anders Holmberg went to play some tennis against one of his Japanese friends. Yeah sure, I thought, this can be fun and when I get home I can do my overdue christmas cleaning.
We started with the basics of how to hit the ball witch was quite alot harder when the instructions were in japanese and I had learned everything the wrong way the first time. This practice took about 30 minutes and after that we started to play against each other in 2v2 games (we each had a random team mate). It was really fun even if I could hardly do anything right.
Me and Anders almost never got to rest since everybody wanted to play with or against us but that was totally fine!
At the last hour of the 4 hour session we got to play on the same team agains the Japanese pro players. Needless to say we lost quite hard.
Sweden 0 - Japan 5.

When we were finished one of them asked if we wanted to come over to him for a cup of coffee. Well sure that could not take that long. Wrong. Once there we first got Beer. Then more Beer. Then some fish, candy, chips, some clam wrapped in seaweed, cucumber wrapped in ham, more fish, ice cream and I feel I have forgotten something that we got. Oh and we never even got that coffee since we had to leave after an hour of constant eating. I could hardly understand anything but thank god that Anders did.

We left their house and went to the car (Anders friend and his wife were giving us a ride to the station) and he asks what we thought was "Do you want to go and eat dinner with us sometime" when he really said "do you want to go and eat dinner with us right now".
One dinner later and I was in the so called "Paltkoma". They even payed for the food. Friendly fellows.

Well at the station when they were dropping us of they actually gave us each the tennis raquette we had used for the day.

So to recap.
In one day I got: A tennis raquette, Enough food to feed a family of 4, 2 Beers, A calendar, memories for life.

The Japanese are so friendly and caring I almost vomit a pink unicorn followed by a rainbow everytime I go to bed.

Well not really, but I felt like it was time to write something. And as you all know christmas was like yesterday. So what should you do when you do not want to eat sushi on this day?
Well you go to IKEA and eat their meatballs. I had 15 of them (they did not even let me order 10 of them, god damnit) and truth to be told I liked it, and I ate them all. For the first time in a long time I enjoyed meatballs. Really weird.
After the food we strolled around and bought random items that could improve our stay in Kyouto. I got a broom, 2 pillows, a blanket, 2 marabou daim and 3 bags of Ahlgrens bilar. Swedish candy is made of win and awesome compared to Japanese.
Once home our adventure did not end. No no, no sir it did not. Hanna invited us over for candy, glogg and pepparkakor. We also watched the Swedish "Donald Duck Christmas" and something witch I do not remember the name of. Once that was over we exchanged christmas presents witch we had agreed on we would buy on IKEA. I got the best present ever. A pack of hotdogs and buns.

Fuck.
Year.