Taco Tuesday

Yesterday evening, I went out for Taco Tuesday with a few of my fellow JETs from San Diego. We went to this little place called "Lucha Libre" in Mission Hills. It was cute- painted bright pink and decorated with Mexican fighter masks and portraits. The reviews on Yelp said it offered good food, and luckily it held up to the boasting!

My delicious Surf n Turf taco. Gotta eat as much Mexican food while I still can....

Anyway, I met 4 other JETs- Judith, Maya, Shirley and Sean, the lone guy in our mini group (but definitely not the only male JET). I'll admit, after loitering around the Forums and seeing some comments made online, I had been quite worried that I was diving headfirst into a company filled with high school maturity level, basement dwelling, cat-ear-headband-wearing, anime-reference-spouting, Japanophile Otaku...

Not quite the case! Judith has never been to Japan. Maya actually went to a women's college and took a class at Waseda (my study abroad university) the year before I went. Shirley went to Kyoto for a semester. And Sean, well, Sean's a halfie so he's been to Japan numerous times but doesn't speak Japanese.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised to find that we're all very grounded. We talked about our preferred placements, why we chose JET, what weird questions we were asked during our interviews (I won that round!) , what our non-Japan related hobbies and goals were, and a slew of other topics. Sean and Judith seem like they are adventurous and not about to let any experiences pass them by. We talked about meeting up and going snowboarding in the winter or even traveling abroad during our vacation allowances.

Here's to hoping we get our placements soon (Rumors abound that it'll be by the end of this week...), and that I'll have people I can hang out with during our Tokyo Orientation!