Last night we went partying in Roppongi. Roppongi is kinda the tourist area of Tokyo. There are a lot of gaijin (foreigners) partying here and naturally this attracts a lot of Japanese people (girls!) who want to meet them. We heard that Lex was the place to go for a good party, so on to Lex we went. At the door we were a bit taken back by the entree fee (4000 Yen, or 24 Euro), but we managed to make it 3000, and we got 3 drink coins as well. Since drinks were 1000 Yen each inside anyway, we basically prepaid for 3 drinks, so it was all good.

Inside we found an awesome party going on! Lots of people were dancing, chilling and the party vibe was very nice. Also, they played normal music! Not the mind numbing rave tunes we heard in atom. Another thing, in Roppongi the girls know how to move much better than in Shibuya. Thus it was a much better feast for our eyes…

Inside, I suddenly got hit on by a kind of shy Japanese girl. So, after Michel pointed that out to me, I started dancing and flirting with her. I thought it all went pretty ok, we were dancing and getting closer and closer (without the need to tickle! ). Then, suddenly, she turned away and started dancing with a Japanese dude. I was a bit confused, so I just went for a drink, and found Michel again. We partied some more, but then I bumped into the girl again. She immediately came to me and we danced like before. But again, when we got closer, she suddenly left, and went to the same guy again. Tuff luck, for her, because I then decided to ignore her for the rest of the night and started partying with three other girls, who were much nicer anyway.

Meanwhile, Michel wasn’t sitting still either, and he had met this pretty little girl who was really into him and two of her hot friends. So, suddenly, I got tapped on the shoulder, that we were going to another club. I was like, ok, let’s go and off we went. On to 99, which turned out to be a gangsta hiphop club, go shorty! The girls inside here were smoking hot! And all of them knew how to shake their booty, it was awesome! The two friends quickly took the stage, and Michel was enjoying himself with the other girl. And I was simply enjoying the view, and partying with everybody. It was awesome!

After 99, we went back to Lex to party some more there. Around 5.30 we decided it was time to go home, so we went for a bite to eat and walked towards Roppongi station. But then the most wicked thing happened. Right before our eyes, at a large crossing, a girl got run over by a truck! Seeing someone getting run over by a truck is a truly weird experience. At first, when you see it happening, you look at it like you would do to a movie, or a video game, it looks very surreal. For me, it looked like the girls body got taken over by ragdoll physics, as she got hit by the truck, and disappeared underneath it…

We both saw it at the same time, stood in shock for maybe a second, and then, as one, we both ran to the scene of the accident to see if she was ok and what we could do to help. Fortunately the girl was hit in the center of the truck, so she wasn’t run over by any of the wheels. So when we arrived, she was already trying to get up. We helped her, and quickly tried to find out if she had any serious injuries. It looked like she didn’t have any serious injuries, she’d just hit her head quite hard on the ground, but there wasn’t any blood or anything. She could have a concussion though, since we aren’t exactly doctors. The truck driver just stood there like “uhm, shall I call the police” (only in Japanese) and we were both like, “well duh! You just ran over a girl!”

The police quickly arrived, and immediately called for an ambulance. The girl was by that time completely overtaken by the realization of what had actually happened to her and was a trembling crying mess of misery. So, while the police was writing down her information, Michel and I did everything we could to comfort her. After a short while, the ambulance came and took her away. We gave our phone numbers, as we were witnesses. But I don’t think we’ll hear much from it again.

After this thrilling experience we quickly went home, and arrived at about 7 in the morning back at our place. Of course I quickly fell asleep after again a totally wicked night of partying in Tokyo!