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Tuesday fun
Aug. 22nd, 2007 03:54 pmThe first and foremost thing I'm very worried about right now is internet.
( Internet situation suckitude )
Other than that, yesterday also sucked for various other reasons, mostly involving classes. I had four classes, and 2 went extremely well, 1 went well until the last 10 minutes, and then the last one just went horrendously bad. And of course, that's the note I remember the entire day by. It wasn't even really due to the internet situation, although I'm sure it didn't help that it stressed me out a lot. I just sort of made an extremely bad judgment on pairing two students to work together and on the way an activity would go, and everything went downhill from there. On the other hand, TWO of my students actually sought me out just to chat in English about random stuff for 15-20 minutes, and that was good.
I didn't get out of the school until after 11pm again, due to ranting about classes with Eri, who also wasn't having a good day -- her left eye swelled up so she had an eyepatch on all day. I guess she's lucky enough that the speaking level of her students is low enough that they can't actually ask her what's wrong with her eye.
So, by the time I got back to Warabi station it was around 11:30; I went to this little Japanese-food-24-hour place by the west side of the station and I had katsudon. There was actually another Japanese guy there using chopsticks in his left hand (the first one I've seen since coming to Japan this time -- no, I'm not joking, though three or four of my students are also left-handed), so I wasn't feeling all that awkward until three Japanese salarymen, older guys, came in and sat down inbetween me and the other lefty. Dunno why they made me feel awkward exactly, but I finished my food pretty quickly and left (with a big nod and loud "GOCHISOUSAMADESHITA" to the cook).
I wanted to play PNM, so I went into the little arcade near there, and there were about 5 people in there... and I started playing, and after my second song, the arcade attendant (I swear I had no idea he was working there, he wasn't dressed all official or anything, though he had a nametag on -- this must be a sort of low-class arcade) comes up to me and says in Japanese, "we're closing soon -- this has to be your last game", and I said "Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't see hours outside, what time do you close?" and he says, "Midnight. It's ok, just finish your game."
I get this feeling that most arcades near me close at midnight, pretty much.
Anyway, I played one game of PNM and left and came home and decided to sleep before writing this entry because I'd probably be pretty angry still if I was tired and grumpy about the internet situation.
Now, it is almost time for me to leave for work again. I'm hoping to duck out and watch Koshien's final game in the afternoon for about an hour -- I don't have any classes until 5pm, and it starts at 3pm. It's Hiroshima's Koryo highschool vs. Saga Kita! I'm rooting for Saga of course, but Koryo looked like a damn good team too, so who knows. Hopefully they'll let people watch at the Daiei again.
GUESS WHAT! KITAKO WON THE GAME 5-4!!!!
It was 2-0 for most of the game, I started watching in the 6th inning, Yusuke Nomura had a one-hitter going into the 8th, and then BLAM, Saga pitcher Kubo singled to lead off the inning, the bases got loaded, Nomura walked in a run (it was Kubo), and then Soejima (I think thats how you say his name) hit a grand slam home run. 5-4. Koryo almost had a guy on third in the top of the 9th but instead he got himself picked off in a sac bunt attempt trying to go to third. 2 outs and the last batter was nomura, the Koryo pitcher, and Kubo struck him out.
ADACHI MITSURU COULD NOT HAVE WRITTEN A BETTER STORY.
it was really cool, even though a lot of the 50-year-old guys in the store looked at me funny the whole time, like "why is this crazy gaijin here cheering for Saga?"
( Internet situation suckitude )
Other than that, yesterday also sucked for various other reasons, mostly involving classes. I had four classes, and 2 went extremely well, 1 went well until the last 10 minutes, and then the last one just went horrendously bad. And of course, that's the note I remember the entire day by. It wasn't even really due to the internet situation, although I'm sure it didn't help that it stressed me out a lot. I just sort of made an extremely bad judgment on pairing two students to work together and on the way an activity would go, and everything went downhill from there. On the other hand, TWO of my students actually sought me out just to chat in English about random stuff for 15-20 minutes, and that was good.
I didn't get out of the school until after 11pm again, due to ranting about classes with Eri, who also wasn't having a good day -- her left eye swelled up so she had an eyepatch on all day. I guess she's lucky enough that the speaking level of her students is low enough that they can't actually ask her what's wrong with her eye.
So, by the time I got back to Warabi station it was around 11:30; I went to this little Japanese-food-24-hour place by the west side of the station and I had katsudon. There was actually another Japanese guy there using chopsticks in his left hand (the first one I've seen since coming to Japan this time -- no, I'm not joking, though three or four of my students are also left-handed), so I wasn't feeling all that awkward until three Japanese salarymen, older guys, came in and sat down inbetween me and the other lefty. Dunno why they made me feel awkward exactly, but I finished my food pretty quickly and left (with a big nod and loud "GOCHISOUSAMADESHITA" to the cook).
I wanted to play PNM, so I went into the little arcade near there, and there were about 5 people in there... and I started playing, and after my second song, the arcade attendant (I swear I had no idea he was working there, he wasn't dressed all official or anything, though he had a nametag on -- this must be a sort of low-class arcade) comes up to me and says in Japanese, "we're closing soon -- this has to be your last game", and I said "Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't see hours outside, what time do you close?" and he says, "Midnight. It's ok, just finish your game."
I get this feeling that most arcades near me close at midnight, pretty much.
Anyway, I played one game of PNM and left and came home and decided to sleep before writing this entry because I'd probably be pretty angry still if I was tired and grumpy about the internet situation.
Now, it is almost time for me to leave for work again. I'm hoping to duck out and watch Koshien's final game in the afternoon for about an hour -- I don't have any classes until 5pm, and it starts at 3pm. It's Hiroshima's Koryo highschool vs. Saga Kita! I'm rooting for Saga of course, but Koryo looked like a damn good team too, so who knows. Hopefully they'll let people watch at the Daiei again.
GUESS WHAT! KITAKO WON THE GAME 5-4!!!!
It was 2-0 for most of the game, I started watching in the 6th inning, Yusuke Nomura had a one-hitter going into the 8th, and then BLAM, Saga pitcher Kubo singled to lead off the inning, the bases got loaded, Nomura walked in a run (it was Kubo), and then Soejima (I think thats how you say his name) hit a grand slam home run. 5-4. Koryo almost had a guy on third in the top of the 9th but instead he got himself picked off in a sac bunt attempt trying to go to third. 2 outs and the last batter was nomura, the Koryo pitcher, and Kubo struck him out.
ADACHI MITSURU COULD NOT HAVE WRITTEN A BETTER STORY.
it was really cool, even though a lot of the 50-year-old guys in the store looked at me funny the whole time, like "why is this crazy gaijin here cheering for Saga?"
