Tokyo with Karaoke and Hanabi

Saturday I started luckily a bit later because the evening before was a liiitle bit tiring ;) Nevertheless I cannot sleep longer than 9a.m. in Japan. Until don't know why. Maybe it's early light from outside. So I started the day relatively unspectacular. But at 1p.m. the day started.

I've met with Maruta-san at Hodougaya-Station, the nearest train station. Together we took the train to Ikebukuro, a district of Tokyo. There we met two AIESEC members Maya-san und Yuri-san in a Karaoke Bar. Yeah you read right! I was finally for my first time in an original Japanese Karaoke Bar. As many of you know, the Karaoke Bars in Japan, are not an open space where everyone sings in front of everyone. You get smaller or bigger rooms which you rent for a specific time.

MC Maruta at the mic with the two fantastic singers Yuri and Maya ^^

It was really interesting to see this the first time. Like in many buildings you only have very neat corridors and stairways to get through the building. When I saw it from the inside, I realized how many space / individual Karaoke rooms or better said boths you can get in a very small floor. This alone was worth of seeing ^^

Crowd walking to Hanabi

So inside theKaraoke booth you can select your songs via a tablet and order drinks, food, etc. over a phone at the wall. And of course, you sing. From my time in school, I thought I was pretty good at singing, but after the first song I realized how bad my voice got rusted over the years oO So I have to practise more to get my angel like voice again :D

Döner!!!

Speaking of angels voice, no one of us had them, but you should hear Maruta-san singing. He was singing with such an energy and talent, it was really amazing. Again, I learned never to judge someone from his/her appearance. Not that I would have any prejudges, I just hadn't thought that he is such a good singer :)

After hours of singing which had felt more than minutes, we went to the train station to pick up other AIESECers and had to say good-bye to Maruta-san. From there we went straight to the Fireworks.

Awesome view at the river :)

Did I mentioned that one of the persons who we picked up was German? Lisa aka Elli is a fellow from Leipzig (aka hometown) who I talked before the internship via mail. So it was the first offline-meeting :D

So we went all straight to the fireworks. Did I said straight? As you already realized, there were some confusions abou the way, especially when we split accidentally. So I tried with Maya to find the rest.


Unfortunately it wasn't that easy and the fireworks already started. So we went to the meeting place at the river where other AIESECers already waited for us. There we watched a beautiful Hanabi.

After the end, we were found by the rest of the old group and so went all together home. It was really great to meet so many people, most of them from AIESEC St. Pauls, the nearest local comittee of AIESEC. And like most AIESECers there are really open-minded and funny people ^^

Fireworks in Summer are really the best ^^