A delayed weekend story

I should've written this last weekend, but I've been procrastinating and busy preping for my Halloween lessons. So before this weekend begins, I'll write about the interesting events that happened last weekend! ^_^

I skipped out on attending the Japanese conversational class because there's this creepy guy there I met from the first lesson who keeps emailing me to tell me "I miss you" (and that's the only thing he'd write in the email). I'd like to hope it's simply a language barrier since he doesn't speak English, but I still feel uncomfortable talking to him so I'll just avoid the situation by going only once a month and hope I'm lucky and I won't see him there. Plus, the conversational class isn't helping at all, my students teach me more Japanese than they do~!

Instead of attending the class, I went around to 3 book stores to look for Japanese grammar books to learn on my own. And just like every other weekend, I'd randomly ask someone for help even though I know they're not staff. So I met this girl who happened used to take classes at my school when she was younger! What a small world! So we stood around talking for about 20 minutes and then I got her number and going out with her next weekend. ^_^

Since it was a Sunday, I didn't want to go home to cook but I didn't bring my little traveller hand book to help me order in Japanese, so I didn't know what to do. I zoned out at the intersection to think what I should do, and suddenly this man starts talking to me. I told him I don't speak Japanese and so he switched channels and spoke broken up English. Still not knowing what he said, I just ignored him totally and asked him where I can find a good restaurant to eat. And he recommends... karaoke? I told him no, so he ends up bringing me to an Izakaya (居酒屋). I thought I was eating alone, but when I got off my bike, he walked into the restaurant first. I asked him if he was eating with me... and he's like.. OF COURSE! :S But when we started ordering, he didn't even order anything because he said he wasn't hungry. I started feeling even more weird, but as the conversation started rolling, I started feeling more comfortable because he was a really nice guy. He taught me a lot of Japanese and it felt really good. So basically, my night ended with a stranger taking me out to dinner. We exchanged numbers and probably going out for coffee sometime this week.

I believe the random stranger pickup count is at 5 now. :P