I think it's really funny that the Japanese men will order the American beers i.e. Budweiser, Sam Adams and the American guys order the Japanese beers i.e. Orion, Kirin, etc. I had a Guiness, only because Dr. OZ said that the darker beers were actually better for you than the lighter colored beers. I forgot why, but I figured I hadn't had a Guiness in a while anyway, so....
But I digress, the entertainment for the evening was a 15 member brass band that played a lot of American classics from the 40's and 50's and some Christmas songs. They were really good. Too bad no one danced...
The speakers for the evening did a great job in keeping their speeches short. Whenever you have a Japanese and American crowd you typically have the speaker and then an interpreter. So any speech that is given is inherently twice as long as you intended. But the speakers this evening, interpreted their own speech with a very smooth and uninterrupted flow. As soon as the speaker told a joke in English he very quickly said it in Japanese and everyone was able to laugh together instead of the Americans laughing and then two minutes later the Japanese audience laughs.
As always here are some pics of the evening.
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| Elyce during cocktail hour. |
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| Elyce, Miki, Robin, Nicole and Tim |
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| Quick picture before heading home. |
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