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Fried-day
To balance out Thursday's lunch which made me so sick, I got the closest thing I could think of to chicken soup for lunch today: miso ramen.
I bought my train tickets for Sunday. I felt really retarded spending so long reading all the menus on the train ticket machine in Japanese and so proud of myself for managing to do it all, and then after the whole thing reset, I see the big button to press that says "English" on it.
There was an enka concert going on in this little CD shop in La La Garden when I went over to Daiso to get some stuff. That was pretty surreal. The singer's name was Ikeda something, an older guy, he was there signing CDs afterwards.
I think I need to somehow split my Friday kids' class up, or I am going to go insane chasing after all four of them.
I finally met the school's French teacher today. He's from Paris and speaks French and Japanese fluently, and sort of mostly speaks English too. He called to find out if his student was showing up and I answered the phone in Japanese but utterly couldn't figure out what the hell he was asking until he switched to English. (He only comes to Akabane once a week for the one class, basically, and his student had been out of town for a few weeks.)
My Saturday 11am student called to say he can't make it tomorrow, and I answered that call too but didn't realize it was him at first, and I was fielding it in Japanese until I got up to the part where I politely asked "What time is the class you won't be able to come to, Lastname-san?" and he said, "I'm in YOUR 11am class, Deanna-sensei." [I switch to English] "OH!!! Firstname!! HOW ARE YOU? You're missing class tomorrow??" "Deanna-sensei no nihongo wa umai na?" "Yeah whatever. What's up?" "I have to go to my work tomorrow." "Oh. That sucks. I'll see you next week?" "Yes, see you next week. I am sorry."
Something tells me I am going to have several conversations like this over the next few weeks until we get a new manager.
After work I decided to do something pretty crazy -- bike to Urawa. This is actually not all that easy. Despite it only being something like 6km as the crow flies, it's really a royal pain in the ass to bike to from where I live, and it literally took me about 20-25 minutes to bike from home to the Minami-Urawa train station. I didn't realize the real Urawa station is only about 5 minutes past there, but hey. Thing is, I can bike from Warabi station to Nishi-Kawaguchi in like 5 minutes, and the next stop after Warabi is Minami-Urawa, so... I think next time I go to Urawa I'm just going to take the train rather than biking, dammit. (I *thought* it'd save me time and money to bike it, but apparently not.)
The other funny part is, so I figured I'd bike to Urawa and eat dinner there, but what actually happened is, I didn't find anything there, so I literally ended up eating dinner less than a kilometer from where I live, at a Japanese-food place I found across from the 24-hour McDonald's, both of which were new discoveries. The Japanese place was fantastic. I got a hamburger-croquette combo, the hamburger was Japanese-style, served in a small pan with a burning candle thingy under it, covered in demiglace sauce and veggies, and the croquettes were actually salmon-cream Hokkaido style. All fucking fantastic and it came with rice and miso as well. I really didn't intend to spend like 1500 yen on my dinner, but that was worth it. It was totally Lunch Queen.
Ugh 2am again and I need to get up earlier than usual since it's Saturday. Sigh.
I think I may actually try to just come home after work tomorrow for once, and work on cleaning my apartment and maybe watch the Giants-Tigers game on TV. Usually I'd go try to do some shopping or exploring on a Saturday night, but eh.
I bought my train tickets for Sunday. I felt really retarded spending so long reading all the menus on the train ticket machine in Japanese and so proud of myself for managing to do it all, and then after the whole thing reset, I see the big button to press that says "English" on it.
There was an enka concert going on in this little CD shop in La La Garden when I went over to Daiso to get some stuff. That was pretty surreal. The singer's name was Ikeda something, an older guy, he was there signing CDs afterwards.
I think I need to somehow split my Friday kids' class up, or I am going to go insane chasing after all four of them.
I finally met the school's French teacher today. He's from Paris and speaks French and Japanese fluently, and sort of mostly speaks English too. He called to find out if his student was showing up and I answered the phone in Japanese but utterly couldn't figure out what the hell he was asking until he switched to English. (He only comes to Akabane once a week for the one class, basically, and his student had been out of town for a few weeks.)
My Saturday 11am student called to say he can't make it tomorrow, and I answered that call too but didn't realize it was him at first, and I was fielding it in Japanese until I got up to the part where I politely asked "What time is the class you won't be able to come to, Lastname-san?" and he said, "I'm in YOUR 11am class, Deanna-sensei." [I switch to English] "OH!!! Firstname!! HOW ARE YOU? You're missing class tomorrow??" "Deanna-sensei no nihongo wa umai na?" "Yeah whatever. What's up?" "I have to go to my work tomorrow." "Oh. That sucks. I'll see you next week?" "Yes, see you next week. I am sorry."
Something tells me I am going to have several conversations like this over the next few weeks until we get a new manager.
After work I decided to do something pretty crazy -- bike to Urawa. This is actually not all that easy. Despite it only being something like 6km as the crow flies, it's really a royal pain in the ass to bike to from where I live, and it literally took me about 20-25 minutes to bike from home to the Minami-Urawa train station. I didn't realize the real Urawa station is only about 5 minutes past there, but hey. Thing is, I can bike from Warabi station to Nishi-Kawaguchi in like 5 minutes, and the next stop after Warabi is Minami-Urawa, so... I think next time I go to Urawa I'm just going to take the train rather than biking, dammit. (I *thought* it'd save me time and money to bike it, but apparently not.)
The other funny part is, so I figured I'd bike to Urawa and eat dinner there, but what actually happened is, I didn't find anything there, so I literally ended up eating dinner less than a kilometer from where I live, at a Japanese-food place I found across from the 24-hour McDonald's, both of which were new discoveries. The Japanese place was fantastic. I got a hamburger-croquette combo, the hamburger was Japanese-style, served in a small pan with a burning candle thingy under it, covered in demiglace sauce and veggies, and the croquettes were actually salmon-cream Hokkaido style. All fucking fantastic and it came with rice and miso as well. I really didn't intend to spend like 1500 yen on my dinner, but that was worth it. It was totally Lunch Queen.
Ugh 2am again and I need to get up earlier than usual since it's Saturday. Sigh.
I think I may actually try to just come home after work tomorrow for once, and work on cleaning my apartment and maybe watch the Giants-Tigers game on TV. Usually I'd go try to do some shopping or exploring on a Saturday night, but eh.
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"Yeah whatever. What's up?"
Hahahahah, the more you speak Japanese to people, the more they will say this to you at every opportunity. Seriously, all you'd need to say to them would be something like そうですね。
Also Urawa! WE ARE REDS!!1! WE ARE REDS!!1!
(Sorry, soccer attack. *twitch*)
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