ホストボーイになった。。。

A few days ago my friend Diana, who is head of the Kyoto University foreign student union sent me a mail about a party being held Friday(tonight) by 京都光華女子大学 an all girls university on the other side of town for new foreign students to Kyoto. If I managed to get enough people we would get free taxies there and back. You tell a two floors of guys that an all girls university is throwing a free party for new foreign students and the response is naturally incredible. We had a good 20 people or so from Kyodai who were jumping to go which was more than enough to secure the free taxies. Aaron, Masahiro (not an exchange student but our good friend who we asked to come), Rowan (from New Zealand), and I were in the first taxi to arrive and when we walked into the bulding where the party was being held we really couldn't believe our eyes. At least 100 girls, probably closer to 150 just sitting there waiting for us all to arrive. As we walked, and I'm not kidding when I say this, they all were on their feet cheering for us. This is when I turned to Aaron and said "Oh my god, we're going to be host boys tonight" and his reply "Is this heaven?"

It really was. Free food, drink and ladies as far as the eye could see in every direction. None of us have ever been in any kind of situation like this. Normally you'd have to put some effort in while trying to pick up a girl, but here they're just basically throwing themselves at you. Not that I'm complaining, it was just a bit overwhelming and surreal. The stereotype of the shy Japanese girl was definitely not true tonight. All night girls were coming up to me asking for pictures, asking for my number and asking me all kinds of questions. Every guy in there who was looking for a number walked out with at least one. And while there was a tiny part of me (about 1%) that felt really weird about being a host boy, shipped in and fed in order to entertain a bunch of girls, the other part of me was soaking it up.

Unfortunately, I didn't take my camera, and Aaron forgot to put his memory stick in his so we have no pictures, but we're hosting a party tomorrow in our res and it should be a wild night.