Rock band circle

So on Friday I contacted my friend Seiya about the band meeting that night. He couldn't make it, but he got someone else to help me find the meeting room. The group was bigger than I thought. I thought the circles were just one band, but it turns out that the rock band circle is a collection of people that find others to make various bands from. A group of people will usually try to make a cover band.

I found someone who spoke English, so I was able to express my intentions to them fully and they helped hook me up with other people of the same interests. We talked about different bands we were into. It was cool, I got to practice Japanese, they got to practice some English. There is going to be a festival next week where the different bands will perform. I'll probably go there and scope out different groups. Here is a picture of the guy who helped me out a lot that night.

After the festival, people will be looking to make different groups for the next performance in the spring. I think that I will try and get a group together to do a metal band. There are not many metal fans in the circle, but within that group we have a few guitarists and a bassist. We still need a drummer.

One guy said that he would like to use me in a ska band as a trumpet player since I can play trumpet. That would be neat. But that means I need to rent a trumpet or ship mine over here.

After the meeting was over, the group went to a restaurant and had some ramen. The kind I got was super spicy. It was good though.

After the restaurant, they all went back on campus and had some snacks at the small park area. There were some people in the group that would try to speak English to me the whole time, but their English wasn't very good, so they would fall back on Japanese. So I ended up getting some good Japanese practice in. I've realized recently that learning to use Linux bash is very much like learning a language. You learn a useful command, so you end up using it a lot and remembering it well.
One guy went and bought some soupy type thing with various big items in it. It was interesting. It was hot and tasted alright.


We ended up hanging out at the park until about 11. We all went our separate ways after that. It was a good night. I met a bunch of Japanese people. This rock band circle seems promising. I am relieved that I have found a good way to meet people and practice Japanese.