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the last few days -- a really busy week
I want there to be entries about the last few days but I do not feel like writing them.
I have also noticed that lately I start replying to people's entries, decide my reply is dumb, and delete it.
Out of school:
Wednesday wasn't much. I shoulda done laundry but didn't. I did solo karaoke and kaitensushi. Karaoke was weird in that they said all rooms were full, which makes no sense at 5:30pm, but as a result I got a room with that new Crosso system. I don't think it is all that great, the only thing I noticed was that it seemed they had a lot more "real artist music" and in some cases that is all they had. Kaitensushi was really good; Heiroku is weird in that it's entirely impossible to predict what time will have a good mix of stuff on the belt, but this time they had so much that I wanted, I had 9 plates and almost thought of having a 10th because they have a "if you eat 10 plates you get one free" special on weekdays... then I realized, uh, I could just pay for 9 plates and just eat 9 plates and leave it at that, and it was probably a better idea, so I did.
I played PP that evening, and should have done laundry, because I cannot do laundry until Monday at this rate. Argh.
Thursday, I had Japanese class. I did some of my homework during the school day, and I went to Takadanobaba fairly early, getting there like 5:50pm for a 6:45 class, so I had kaitensushi for dinner AGAIN, this time at Tenkasushi, which is actually my favorite kaiten chain. Oh, it was sooooo good, and this time they finally didn't ask me if I needed a fucking English menu. I ate 9 plates again because I was so hungry - Wed and Thurs we had some pretty awful school lunches.
Class was okay, we did another test as usual. And this time, I basically got like 70-80% of the kanji, vocab, and grammar... BUT again did not have time to finish the reading. Which is really killing me. I am just way too slow.
We spent about 30 mins of class doing some reading exercises together. What this means is, we had to read passages aloud and then discuss the questions to figure out the answers. However, my class has 4 people including me, and one girl rarely comes but DID come this time -- she is also taking an 1-kyuu prep course, and is Chinese, so her kanji knowledge is impeccable. So the Brazilian girl studying at Waseda reads a bit, she has a very noticable rise and fall to her intonation but can read MOST words okay. The Swiss girl has the same thing. The Chinese girl reads it like a freaking native Japanese speaker. She didn't stumble over a single word and she reads FAST.
Me, I am completely not used to reading unfamiliar Japanese passages out loud for other people. I stumbled on a few kanji, but mostly slogged my way through -- I am definitely the lowest-level student in the class, which is good and bad. But I also have fairly good intonation and pronunciation. After class, though, the other two girls were like "OMG you read like a junior high school girl or something!" and I said "huh?" and they said "You have a very quiet but serious voice as if you don't want to make a mistake, it is completely different from your normal speaking voice in Japanese, which sounds more like a high school boy."
Yeah.
Oh, I also got taiyaki from the taiyaki stand that is right by our language school. The taiyaki was fantastic but the old dude who runs the shop asked me what country I'm from, and I told him the USA, and he said "WTF, I thought you were German, you seem European".
At home that night I basically worked on cropping photos from Kamagaya so I could dump them all into a huge Friday Foto post already.
Friday night, well... after school I went to the Tokyo Dome for the Fighters-Giants game. What SUCKED is that I had my Imanari jersey and wristbands, and my Imanari signboards and all with me... AND HE GOT SENT DOWN TO THE MINORS AGAIN :( But I got to the Tokyo Dome and said hi to people... I was sitting with Tsuji apparently, Taicho was two rows behind us, but the Shinozawas and Tsuyoshi and Kon-chan and all of them were way far down in the front. We were a few rows behind the ouendan, in back.
And well, the game was... the Fighters were in the lead for a lot of it, but it was a big home run game, the Giants kept hitting home runs, though the Fighters hit a few too... it was 6-5 going into the bottom of the 9th, Hisashi Takeda was pitching, apparently he hit Seung-Yeop Lee with a pitch, and then Hayato Sakamoto hit a walk-off 2-run homer that bounced just over the wall in dead center and the Giants won 7-6. I still haven't seen the Fighters win a game in person. Ugh.
After the game, we got a group of about 10 of us together and went to an izakaya to eat and drink and hang out. All I had for dinner was some chicken nuggets before the game, so I was pretty happy to get to eat real food, among other things they had some amazing karaage, fried chicken. There were some Giants fans at the table next to us, and some Fighters fans a few tables away, one guy came over to commisserate with us too.
I got home around 12:30am, and had to get up at 6:30am to come to school on a Saturday. Whee. And that is where I am now. I am also going to the Tokyo Dome tonight, and then tomorrow is Sports Day, and Monday I go to Sagamihara for more baseball, and..
I have also noticed that lately I start replying to people's entries, decide my reply is dumb, and delete it.
Out of school:
Wednesday wasn't much. I shoulda done laundry but didn't. I did solo karaoke and kaitensushi. Karaoke was weird in that they said all rooms were full, which makes no sense at 5:30pm, but as a result I got a room with that new Crosso system. I don't think it is all that great, the only thing I noticed was that it seemed they had a lot more "real artist music" and in some cases that is all they had. Kaitensushi was really good; Heiroku is weird in that it's entirely impossible to predict what time will have a good mix of stuff on the belt, but this time they had so much that I wanted, I had 9 plates and almost thought of having a 10th because they have a "if you eat 10 plates you get one free" special on weekdays... then I realized, uh, I could just pay for 9 plates and just eat 9 plates and leave it at that, and it was probably a better idea, so I did.
I played PP that evening, and should have done laundry, because I cannot do laundry until Monday at this rate. Argh.
Thursday, I had Japanese class. I did some of my homework during the school day, and I went to Takadanobaba fairly early, getting there like 5:50pm for a 6:45 class, so I had kaitensushi for dinner AGAIN, this time at Tenkasushi, which is actually my favorite kaiten chain. Oh, it was sooooo good, and this time they finally didn't ask me if I needed a fucking English menu. I ate 9 plates again because I was so hungry - Wed and Thurs we had some pretty awful school lunches.
Class was okay, we did another test as usual. And this time, I basically got like 70-80% of the kanji, vocab, and grammar... BUT again did not have time to finish the reading. Which is really killing me. I am just way too slow.
We spent about 30 mins of class doing some reading exercises together. What this means is, we had to read passages aloud and then discuss the questions to figure out the answers. However, my class has 4 people including me, and one girl rarely comes but DID come this time -- she is also taking an 1-kyuu prep course, and is Chinese, so her kanji knowledge is impeccable. So the Brazilian girl studying at Waseda reads a bit, she has a very noticable rise and fall to her intonation but can read MOST words okay. The Swiss girl has the same thing. The Chinese girl reads it like a freaking native Japanese speaker. She didn't stumble over a single word and she reads FAST.
Me, I am completely not used to reading unfamiliar Japanese passages out loud for other people. I stumbled on a few kanji, but mostly slogged my way through -- I am definitely the lowest-level student in the class, which is good and bad. But I also have fairly good intonation and pronunciation. After class, though, the other two girls were like "OMG you read like a junior high school girl or something!" and I said "huh?" and they said "You have a very quiet but serious voice as if you don't want to make a mistake, it is completely different from your normal speaking voice in Japanese, which sounds more like a high school boy."
Yeah.
Oh, I also got taiyaki from the taiyaki stand that is right by our language school. The taiyaki was fantastic but the old dude who runs the shop asked me what country I'm from, and I told him the USA, and he said "WTF, I thought you were German, you seem European".
At home that night I basically worked on cropping photos from Kamagaya so I could dump them all into a huge Friday Foto post already.
Friday night, well... after school I went to the Tokyo Dome for the Fighters-Giants game. What SUCKED is that I had my Imanari jersey and wristbands, and my Imanari signboards and all with me... AND HE GOT SENT DOWN TO THE MINORS AGAIN :( But I got to the Tokyo Dome and said hi to people... I was sitting with Tsuji apparently, Taicho was two rows behind us, but the Shinozawas and Tsuyoshi and Kon-chan and all of them were way far down in the front. We were a few rows behind the ouendan, in back.
And well, the game was... the Fighters were in the lead for a lot of it, but it was a big home run game, the Giants kept hitting home runs, though the Fighters hit a few too... it was 6-5 going into the bottom of the 9th, Hisashi Takeda was pitching, apparently he hit Seung-Yeop Lee with a pitch, and then Hayato Sakamoto hit a walk-off 2-run homer that bounced just over the wall in dead center and the Giants won 7-6. I still haven't seen the Fighters win a game in person. Ugh.
After the game, we got a group of about 10 of us together and went to an izakaya to eat and drink and hang out. All I had for dinner was some chicken nuggets before the game, so I was pretty happy to get to eat real food, among other things they had some amazing karaage, fried chicken. There were some Giants fans at the table next to us, and some Fighters fans a few tables away, one guy came over to commisserate with us too.
I got home around 12:30am, and had to get up at 6:30am to come to school on a Saturday. Whee. And that is where I am now. I am also going to the Tokyo Dome tonight, and then tomorrow is Sports Day, and Monday I go to Sagamihara for more baseball, and..
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hehe i do this all the time. on fb, too.
lol :/ awww. I swear the way certain language is exclusive to different ages and genders is annoying! Especially if you're like me and don't want to talk super-feminine/like a girly girl when you speak English.
Yeah, some old Japanese guy thought I was Italian... haha, never got that before...
Man I miss having から揚げ at izakaya!!
Hope to see you in Sapporo!! :) You're welcome to crash at my place if you want, too.
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