Club Camelot

Last night I had what I'm going to consider my first real club experience.

For Eric's birthday, a rather large group of us wet to Shibuya with plans of doing karaoke but found out that the place we had in mind was jam packed and we could only get one room and would have to wait for it. A group of us wanted to go to a club afterward so this wasn't working out so well since we'd had a late start getting out of the dorm due to some stragglers. Instead, we split into two groups, one staying behind at the karaoke place and the other went on an adventure to find Camelot.

Camelot is a multi-floor club in Shibuya and it was pretty freaking awesome. We went early enough for the 'early bird' discount, where women got in free and men got in for 10 dollars + 2 free drinks (thus essentially free). Things were slow at first, but any club is usually relatively slow before 11 pm.

We drank while we waited for things to pick up, and I have to say it didn't take long for me to spend quite a bit of money on drinks alone. Throughout the entire night, I had two rum and cokes, one whiskey and coke, and a few other drinks I don't quite remember anymore haha. I actually didn't get drunk enough to not really remember everything, and all the dancing sobered me up faster than I thought it would but it was still fun.

Also, it's become rather apparent that I can dance, though I've never quite agreed with the idea haha. After a few drinks, I didn't feel so nervous, and quite honestly, being around with friends who just didn't care if you could dance or not helped a lot.

We all missed last train last night and stayed out until six am, going to McDonald's for breakfast from about 3:30-4 am to 5 am, before heading over to the train station to chill and wait for the first train.

All in all the club was a lot of fun. A lot of Japanese people seem to be a little shy about dancing, and they all face the SAME direction in the dance floor--it was kind of awkward until it was really packed and everyone had no choice but to face different ways hahaa. In the beginning there was one Japanese guy who decided to dance with ALL of us, boys and girls haha, he was hilarious.

After that, I danced with Michael for the most part. Though I danced with Eric and Elyce a little, I didn't really go the extra step of actually trying to dance with strangers hahaa, maybe next time. Supposedly, however, there had been someone checkin' me out, and had he not spilled his drink on the way over, he might have actually come and danced with me hahaa. Oh well.

After some minor persuasion, they got me on the ladies only stage with Elyce and other Japanese girls to dance. I'm surprised I wasn't so embarrassed about it, but it was a lot of fun so I guess that might be why.

....I'll try and update more about this tomorrow, I'm falling asleep at my computer!