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...and raining in Yokohama
I went down to Yokohama this afternoon/evening for the Baystars/Tigers game, where I met up with Michael Westbay, the guy who runs japanesebaseball.com. That was pretty interesting. He's even geekier than me, but unlike me, he has the baseball cred to back it up :)
Sadly, there were a lot of really close calls and a few stupid things and a LOT of rain, and then Ohya-kantoku had this brilliant idea to intentionally walk Shinjiro Hiyama, and it all went downhill from there and the Tigers won 9-7. What kind of moron intentionally walks Hiyama?
I meant to check out the Kannai north McDonald's before the game, but couldn't find it and instead got a late lunch from KFC. In retrospect, that was probably the best choice before seeing a Hanshin game. I got home too late to really get food anywhere, and it was raining, and I thought I'd cook some noodles but instead I just ate crackers for dinner. Bleh.
I think I am definitely coming down with a cold though, or at least my throat feels a little yucky, although that might just be the aftereffect of spending half of the weekend outside in the rain yelling at baseball players.
Also, I need to do laundry still. Oops.
Sadly, there were a lot of really close calls and a few stupid things and a LOT of rain, and then Ohya-kantoku had this brilliant idea to intentionally walk Shinjiro Hiyama, and it all went downhill from there and the Tigers won 9-7. What kind of moron intentionally walks Hiyama?
I meant to check out the Kannai north McDonald's before the game, but couldn't find it and instead got a late lunch from KFC. In retrospect, that was probably the best choice before seeing a Hanshin game. I got home too late to really get food anywhere, and it was raining, and I thought I'd cook some noodles but instead I just ate crackers for dinner. Bleh.
I think I am definitely coming down with a cold though, or at least my throat feels a little yucky, although that might just be the aftereffect of spending half of the weekend outside in the rain yelling at baseball players.
Also, I need to do laundry still. Oops.
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I didn't start studying Japanese on my own until I had already gone through four semesters of it at CMU, so I really don't know much about starting out. If Sony needs you to go to Japan, wouldn't they get you an interpreter and/or lessons?
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I can't wait to see how much easier it will be after 3, or even 4 years...
P.S. It's started to rain here a ton in Seattle too. We got well over an inch yesterday, and it's coming down as I speak...
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I can tell you that after 10 years it doesn't really get any easier or harder.
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I don't know if my goal is to become a Japanese scholar as much as I'd like to learn to be polite and ask "how much?" and "where's the bathroom?" I am sure that there will be interpreters for business and all that.
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I can probably tell you most of the "random useful phrases", or you could buy a phrase book from any bookstore, though.
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So i hear the A's and the dark sox of some kind are heading to Japan in MARCH? if that is the case, and you are there, i'm going!!!! once i hear the details i'm going to plan because i can enjoy your company, see the A's and see Tokyo all at once. can't beat that!
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I totally want to go to the A's/Sox game if I can get tickets!!
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it's going to probably be pretty insane trying to get tickets because of Matsuzaka. I'll be keeping my eyes open for details, but if you hear anything through your guys, let me know! I'll buy them all a ton of Japanese beer!
haha, I just realized I didn't bring any of my A's stuff with me to Japan! only MLB stuff I have with me is a Mariners jersey and a t-shirt, because wearing Ichiro stuff always gets a lot of people talking to me.
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awww well i have 2 buck shirts, huston & haren giveaway jerseys and 1 buck jersey. between that, we can be well dressed!!