Dinner at Japanese Home

This evening I went to an okonomiyaki party hosted by several Japanese girls living in a shared house.  This was my first time in a Japanese home, and though this wasn't a typical family situation, I still felt really lucky to be there.  One of the former core members of HPAC who still occasionally plays with the orchestra has a room there and her roommates wanted to meet some foreigners and practice some English.  It was a wonderful evening of new faces, mixing Japanese and English, eating lots and lots of incredible food, and sharing things from different cultures.  Made yakisoba and onigiri for the first time.  At one point an Electric Slide demonstration followed shortly thereafter by traditional Japanese Bon dancing.   A lovely evening indeed.