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The last week or so -- playing catchup
It's already hard for me to remember what the hell I did at school last week either. I just spent like 20 minutes piecing together my schedule based on "wait a minute, I didn't have this paper that day..."
I actually don't remember last Monday at all at this point, besides that I stayed at school until like 6:30pm, then went to buy my ticket to the Keio-Waseda playoff, at 7pmish when they went on sale at the convenience store. Other than that, I have deduced that it must be the evening I got dinner at Tenya and had the tempura teishoku with udon which was actually quite delicious. Aside from that I remember absolutely nothing about the evening. Maybe I slept.
Tuesday I wrote about, it was game 3 of the Japan Series.
Wednesday I also wrote about to some extent, it was the Keio-Waseda playoff and ensuing ennui.
Thursday I stayed at school really late because I thought I wouldn't be around on Friday due to the Arakawa speech contest and student performances afterwards, and I had a bunch of stuff to get done. Despite that, I got bakery food on the way home (and a loaf of bread to eat on Friday, thinking I would need lunch at the speech contest), and watched the last hour or two of the Japan Series game, which the Marines won.
Friday was our English speech contest in the morning, at Sun Pearl Arakawa. I've written a bit about it in a friends-locked post, and the upshot is that none of our students won anything and I was quite pissed off about it -- not pissed off at the students but pissed off at the judges. Unfortunately I had to spend the afternoon at school after that, though I did eventually get a decent amount of stuff done. In the evening I ate dinner at Heiroku in Akabane (had briefly thought to go look for a new point-and-shoot camera but didn't).
I slept a lot on Friday night -- conked out around 9 or 10pm and woke up at 10 or so the next morning.
Saturday I had no plans but to watch the Japan Series at home by myself in the evening. What sucks is that there was a "practice viewing" that afternoon at Kamagaya where fans could go to the stadium and watch the players practice, and I guess maybe talk to them or get photos or signatures afterwards, but I found out about it at 11:30am or so, when I saw the news about the Obispo trade (the Fighters traded Konta and Sunaga to the Giants for Obispo) and emailed a few friends to go "WTF" and Shinozawa K wrote back like "I'm at Kamagaya! I heard that maybe Kaneko or Koyano will be at the open practice today." Seriously if I had discovered that even an hour earlier -- the time was from 10am-2pm -- I could have gone for part of it -- but by that point there was no way I'd reach the stadium until at least 1:30pm.
And well, there was pro hockey going on in Yokohama but there were no seat tickets available for it either, just standing-room, and I didn't think my friends were going to it because they hadn't said anything about it (turns out I was wrong, but that's another story), so I opted to go watch some college hockey at the DyDo Ice Skating Arena out in Higashi-Fushimi. The last time I was there was for the final Seibu Prince Rabbits game in March 2009... quite a while back now. Apparently it is mostly being used for college hockey now, along with occasionally preliminary figure skating stuff.
The good thing about college hockey is that it is like 800 yen and you can sit there for 3 or 4 games, AND nobody goes to it (the recorded attendance this day was 150 people per game, though I believe more people come to the bigger matches) so you can just sit wherever the hell you want. Like, say, right behind the player's benches in the dead center seating area. Lovely view for watching the game or taking photos or whatever. I opted not to buy a program for 1000 yen but instead talked a press dude into giving me a list of the players active in the game that day, for the Hosei-Senshu game. Though when I got there at 2:15pm, the Daito-Aoyama game was in its last 10 minutes, so I took some photos of that.
Hosei's game was interesting but it was clear that they were just BETTER than Senshu, there's a reason they are the #1 team in Division 1-B. I mean, they would score goals when DOWN one player. They eventually won 7-0, it was really just a trampling in many ways, Senshu kept getting penalties and they had a lot of trouble mounting an offense, though their defense is better than it sounds, because Hosei would make like 16-17 shots per period and only get 2-3 in, where Senshu would make 2 shots per period and get 0 in. No joke. A lot of the Hosei guys come from Saitama Sakae HS, which is one of the stronger hockey high schools that isn't in Hokkaido.
Third game of the day was Rikkio vs. Nihon Taiiku, but I opted to stay for the pregame and not the game itself, and came home to watch the Japan Series on TV, grabbing katsu dinner at the station on the way in.
Unfortunately this game was not on BS1 so I had to watch on my crappy reception of channel 8. And this game went LONG. 6 hours, almost, and it was a 15-inning tie in the end. I felt very fortunate that I didn't go to Nagoya. Steve was there in the Lotte ouendan and he ended up having to walk half of the way back to his hotel before catching a ride with some Chunichi fans who took pity on him like "hey, I saw you on TV".
I'll continue writing Sunday-Monday when I get home tonight I think.
I actually don't remember last Monday at all at this point, besides that I stayed at school until like 6:30pm, then went to buy my ticket to the Keio-Waseda playoff, at 7pmish when they went on sale at the convenience store. Other than that, I have deduced that it must be the evening I got dinner at Tenya and had the tempura teishoku with udon which was actually quite delicious. Aside from that I remember absolutely nothing about the evening. Maybe I slept.
Tuesday I wrote about, it was game 3 of the Japan Series.
Wednesday I also wrote about to some extent, it was the Keio-Waseda playoff and ensuing ennui.
Thursday I stayed at school really late because I thought I wouldn't be around on Friday due to the Arakawa speech contest and student performances afterwards, and I had a bunch of stuff to get done. Despite that, I got bakery food on the way home (and a loaf of bread to eat on Friday, thinking I would need lunch at the speech contest), and watched the last hour or two of the Japan Series game, which the Marines won.
Friday was our English speech contest in the morning, at Sun Pearl Arakawa. I've written a bit about it in a friends-locked post, and the upshot is that none of our students won anything and I was quite pissed off about it -- not pissed off at the students but pissed off at the judges. Unfortunately I had to spend the afternoon at school after that, though I did eventually get a decent amount of stuff done. In the evening I ate dinner at Heiroku in Akabane (had briefly thought to go look for a new point-and-shoot camera but didn't).
I slept a lot on Friday night -- conked out around 9 or 10pm and woke up at 10 or so the next morning.
Saturday I had no plans but to watch the Japan Series at home by myself in the evening. What sucks is that there was a "practice viewing" that afternoon at Kamagaya where fans could go to the stadium and watch the players practice, and I guess maybe talk to them or get photos or signatures afterwards, but I found out about it at 11:30am or so, when I saw the news about the Obispo trade (the Fighters traded Konta and Sunaga to the Giants for Obispo) and emailed a few friends to go "WTF" and Shinozawa K wrote back like "I'm at Kamagaya! I heard that maybe Kaneko or Koyano will be at the open practice today." Seriously if I had discovered that even an hour earlier -- the time was from 10am-2pm -- I could have gone for part of it -- but by that point there was no way I'd reach the stadium until at least 1:30pm.
And well, there was pro hockey going on in Yokohama but there were no seat tickets available for it either, just standing-room, and I didn't think my friends were going to it because they hadn't said anything about it (turns out I was wrong, but that's another story), so I opted to go watch some college hockey at the DyDo Ice Skating Arena out in Higashi-Fushimi. The last time I was there was for the final Seibu Prince Rabbits game in March 2009... quite a while back now. Apparently it is mostly being used for college hockey now, along with occasionally preliminary figure skating stuff.
The good thing about college hockey is that it is like 800 yen and you can sit there for 3 or 4 games, AND nobody goes to it (the recorded attendance this day was 150 people per game, though I believe more people come to the bigger matches) so you can just sit wherever the hell you want. Like, say, right behind the player's benches in the dead center seating area. Lovely view for watching the game or taking photos or whatever. I opted not to buy a program for 1000 yen but instead talked a press dude into giving me a list of the players active in the game that day, for the Hosei-Senshu game. Though when I got there at 2:15pm, the Daito-Aoyama game was in its last 10 minutes, so I took some photos of that.
Hosei's game was interesting but it was clear that they were just BETTER than Senshu, there's a reason they are the #1 team in Division 1-B. I mean, they would score goals when DOWN one player. They eventually won 7-0, it was really just a trampling in many ways, Senshu kept getting penalties and they had a lot of trouble mounting an offense, though their defense is better than it sounds, because Hosei would make like 16-17 shots per period and only get 2-3 in, where Senshu would make 2 shots per period and get 0 in. No joke. A lot of the Hosei guys come from Saitama Sakae HS, which is one of the stronger hockey high schools that isn't in Hokkaido.
Third game of the day was Rikkio vs. Nihon Taiiku, but I opted to stay for the pregame and not the game itself, and came home to watch the Japan Series on TV, grabbing katsu dinner at the station on the way in.
Unfortunately this game was not on BS1 so I had to watch on my crappy reception of channel 8. And this game went LONG. 6 hours, almost, and it was a 15-inning tie in the end. I felt very fortunate that I didn't go to Nagoya. Steve was there in the Lotte ouendan and he ended up having to walk half of the way back to his hotel before catching a ride with some Chunichi fans who took pity on him like "hey, I saw you on TV".
I'll continue writing Sunday-Monday when I get home tonight I think.