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始めて飲み会 — my first company drinking party (and maybe last)

Well I had my first drinking party with the NTT people last friday. I have to say that as serious as the people are in the office, get a few drinks in them and they are really fun.

I talked with a lot of people, in both japanese and english. Quite a few of the people had lived and worked in America. One older guy lived in the states for about 8 years, in fact he was able to guess the area I was from by listening to me talk. Of course he had a very west coast accent. I find it amazing to speak to a japanese person in english and think that, wow, this person sounds like they lived in the states their whole life.
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