Drama

So I joined the drama club on Monday. I was really sceptical at first, because I had heard that the drama club was pretty bad and honestly the idea of the whole thing kind of scared me. But it was my idea in the first place. I had already checked out the tea ceremony club, the art club, the koto club and got a slight whiff of the flower arranging club but none of it seemed for me. And if you really know me you will know that I have a serious problem with commitment and routine. However, since being in a club, as Donny put it, is likely the best thing you can do to improve friendships and Japanese I figured I’d give it another shot. And, also as Donny put it, Drama club is the best of all them for getting good friends and greatly improving in the language. It makes sense. In the past, it seems my only real close friends ever came from drama-related things. And I’ve come to the conclusion - if I ever find myself in need of friends, I need only surround myself with Very Strange People (a.k.a Drama Geeks). For the record Donny, who is argueably my greatest friend here, is also a drama geek. So I think that makes it a Scientific Fact.
Anyway, the first day of drama club I already found two great people that I can see myself becoming pretty good friends with. There’s Eri, the girl who I talked to about the club before actually going into it. And then there’s Pi. He’s quite strange. He sometimes breaks out into random song in awkward silences, he has the greatest facial expressions, and whenever I ask what in the hell he’s doing he usually replies that it’s ‘Japanese culture’. For example, he was cold because he forgot his sweater (and had his arms pulled into his shirt, and was moving side to side so the sleeves flapped around) so one of the other guys and a girl both gave him their sweaters. He took them and instantly balled them up under his shirt and said it was Japanese culture. Then a whole thing about him being pregnant with Eri’s baby started up but that’s a whole other story. Oh and his name isn’t actually Pi. I gave him that nickname, coming from the word ‘opai’. I think his actual name is ‘ipei’ or something…
So yeah. Surround myself with strange people and there you have it. Instant friends. Just add water.