Day 9

Day 8

Today was great, we woke up at ten, and after having a bit of trouble finding lockers at hakata station (the first 3 places we looked were all full) we went down to the beach. 

We basically spent the entire day just hanging out there. We made some friends because some Japanese highschool students wanted to practice English. Once they realized we could speak Japanese thought it was game over. They loved us.

I went swimming for a bit, had a great time doing all my old drills and stuff to the stares of Japanese people, and when I got out Michael had made a new friend.

This guy was nice enough (he bought us beers) but otherwise was a bit creepy. He kept on doing the standard foreigner speech about how you can get Japanese girls, but he took it to another level when he mentioned he had a wife and several girlfriends. Not that it matters to much but did I mention he was from west Africa?

Anyhow after a bit Michael's real other friend joined us, she was super nice and had a great sense of humor. I've noticed that people from Fukuoka laugh more. The guy I met on the ferry was born there, and so was this girl. I really liked the fact that people have a sense of humor. Screw serious Tokyo folks.

To much time passed and we tried to go to a famous shrine, but it was already closed. So instead we went to a tinny local sento for a bath before dinner. It was great to get really clean before the yako (night) bus that we are ridding tonight.

After the bath we thought there wasn't much time before the bus so we quickly had dinner at hakata station said goodby to Aoi and got ready to get on. We then realized we miss read the departure time and instead of leaving at 9:30 we left at 11:30. To kill some time we went to a Internet cafe.

Now I'm riding the night bus due to get into Kobe at 7:00am. This is 10 times more cramped and hot than the sleeper train I took to Vennis.  It's a horrible ending to a great day.