Valentines Day.. Happy times and sad times...

Ok so today is Valentines DAY!!!!! I'm so lucky to have someone special to share it with.... ok.. are you done gagging? hahaha. This year, Valentines Day for me was just like any other plain ol' day except that I bought Kouta some cologne... WHICH was on sale.. but he.. it WAS BVLGARI.... give me some props for that :-P

Anyway, today was kind of a sad day because Sarah's and my lovely friend Ayumi's Goodbye party was today. Ayumi is from Chicago and she has been in Japan for two years and is finally graduating the Keio University Japanese Language program and is going back to Chicago to start what she calls "real life." Ayumi graduated a few years back and came to Japan after graduation to study Japanese... sounds good to me :) Anyway, we were all kinda sad but luckily no one shed any tears.. none that I saw anyway. Kouta went with me to the party even though he knew no one and was a really good sport about hanging out with a bunch of college kids... he he he the old fart is already a post-graduate.. haha Anyway, he seemed to enjoy himself and what was even sweeter was that even though it was Valentine's Day and we were at MY friend's party and afterwards we didn't do anything too special, he didn't care! ha OkOk.. enough gushing...

Anyway, Valentine's Day in Japan...
Well it is very different from Valentine's day in the states. Difference Number 1: Girls don't get jack on Valentine's day. Girls buy guys the presents... Difference Number 2: Girls don't really buy the guys gifts... they usually bake them some sort of chocolate something... fudge,cake, cookies.. whatever.. Difference Number 3: Usually everything you get or give your man is hand-made... They like that sort of thing.

Now I know all the girls reading this are like... "So when do WE get our gifts???" Well we get our gifts on what they call "White Day". White Day is exactly a month after Valentines day on March 14th. On White Day, guys give the girls a present. Why they don't just wrap it up on one day I don't know.. from what I hear.. that's what Christmas is for. haha

So for V-day.. I gave Kouta this BVLGARI perfume that smells absolutely delish... and a sweet kiss on the cheek. That's it.. and he was quite satisfied. :)

From an unofficial survey (which was basically me just asking random guys I know), for most Japanese guys, they really don't care for chocolate.. or any hand made candies..... I bet if all the girls in Japan knew that, they wouldn't act like madwomen buying their men 50 dollar chocolates that might just end up in the garbage.

Anyway, I had a good Valentines Day...
In addition to my good Vday with Kouta, I got a great V-Day present from the US.... a message from my Landy-chan telling me she's coming to JAPAN!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
I'm so happy I could burst!!! It's so exciting to have all these friends coming to visit me. I can't wait!