Monkey Performance

There are somethings in Japan that are unexpected to me, but common to the Japanese. My friends and I went a shopping mall near our school and on the way to the shuttle bus there was this guy with his monkey doing a street performance. At this time my Japanese level was very low so I did not understand what the guy was saying. Still for the time we were standing there watching the tricks the monkey did was worth it. I think I picked up a few words from this performance. When I came back to the states to tell some of my other friends of this they told their own story involving a monkey street performance. It seems like you’ll find someone doing this at different shopping malls. I don’t know the odds, but it just added on to the random things that happened on a regular day.