Summer camping 1

So not an official Social Apartment event, but six of us form the apartment went camping with a group from Shinjuku. It was by a river, and a ton of fun! We heard about it through someone at the apartment.

Hanabi!

So obviously there was also fireworks at the Social Apartment Happy Birthday America party. We found them in Ueno and they were well worth the money. It livened things up quite a bit at the wee hours of the morning!

Once more time!

One more shot from Flipcup at the Social Apartment 4th of July party. Man the Japanese are so psyched every time we request this game. Just goes to show that drinking games are an international language!

America Bday2!

A few weeks old, but here is another photo from the 4th of July party. Like many of our parties flipcup was a popular game. Everyone had a really great time!

Chinese!

There asre many free language classes that residents exchange at Social Apartment. Last night was the first Chinese class we`ve had. Many people came, there were three teachers, and it was a lot of fun!

Nagashi Somen

So every year around this time Japanese people eat a kind of noodle called somen. it`s usually done in a hollowed out bamboo tree, but for home use you use a machine like this that spins the noodles around in water while everyone tries to pick them out. A large group of us made it happen last night in the common room.

Keita-san

This is Keita, the manager of Social Apartment Matsubari-Danchi. He is seriously one of the nicest people I`ve ever met. We couldn`t ask for a nicer, more professional manager!