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Rockin' ramen (tweet?)
We didn't have anyone around from Head Office today, which was both good and bad. The good thing is, Friday is the day I have my entire afternoon free (which usually doesn't matter because I have like ninety classes on Saturday to prepare for), and I was worried whether I'd be able to actually go eat lunch and whatnot. So since she wasn't around, I didn't worry about it. Took my usual Friday kaitensushi lunch at Heiroku (tried the special scallops they had, decided I like normal ones better, go figure). Had to stop by Daiso to get stickers -- the girls in my kids' class figured out my rule that perfect homework means you get a sticker -- and since they did that, they started working harder on their homework and depleted my entire collection of stickers. (On Wednesday, they were actually whining in Japanese how "Sensei doesn't have any cool stickers for us anymore, why are we working so hard on our homework?")
Around 4pm, Jon and I BOTH decided we were heading out for a bit, so we just locked up the school and left. I dunno where he was going, but I had made plans to get coffee with Sam and give him the stuff I got for him in America. (Which was a good thing since one of the things I got him was a big bag of Reese's peanut butter cups and I had given into temptation and eaten one of them yesterday -- I really needed to get those out of my house.)
Apparently there is a big Akabane festival this weekend that will be happening basically right in front of the station -- that is, right in front of our school. That might make things pretty crazy as well. They were setting up today, so every time I walked in and out of our building there were a ton of old guys just standing around pretending to look busy.
I discovered something horrible at the convenience store around the corner, too -- BBM 2008 baseball card "Light Packs". 4 cards and one is always a reflector, 105 yen, instead of the normal 8-card 210-yen packs. Convenient! Terrible! I really need to find some friends to trade baseball cards with this year :( 5 packs in and I already have a double (but it's Chunichi's Ryota Arai, and I already know I have somewhere I can sink any extra Chunichi cards, so it's ok).
I got miso ramen for dinner at the cheapo ramen place. It was good, but I splashed a little on my shirt. So naturally I arrive back at GEOS around 8:45pm, and my 9pm student shows up early and comes into my classroom and I'm just like "uhh... hi... I need to clean the miso soup off my collar, be right back." He lives in Hokkaido though (well, he goes back there every 3 weekends or so), and even went to the Sapporo Dome 2 weeks ago with his son to watch Consadole (coolest team name EVER) playing soccer against Jubilo, so I got a whole bunch of info from him about Sapporo, for my trip next week. And then we ended up spending like half an hour talking about soccer. I know I claim to know absolutely nothing about soccer, but I actually seem to have picked up a decent amount about J-League by just watching the sports news here every night.
I ended up having to lock up the building and take out the trash and all at the end of the day. Sigh. Some things never change, I guess.
One more day of work and then GOLDEN WEEK!!!!
I am going to be awash in geekery and baseball. I suppose if I was smart I would also try to sleep a lot, but sleep is for the weak, not the week.
I think I jinxed Hitoshi Tamura, too, by pointing out that he had not yet killed himself running into a wall. Tonight he managed to run full force into another PLAYER and broke his leg. Akira Ohtsuka got an inside-the-park home run out of it and Tamura ended up leaving the stadium on a stretcher. Whoops.
Around 4pm, Jon and I BOTH decided we were heading out for a bit, so we just locked up the school and left. I dunno where he was going, but I had made plans to get coffee with Sam and give him the stuff I got for him in America. (Which was a good thing since one of the things I got him was a big bag of Reese's peanut butter cups and I had given into temptation and eaten one of them yesterday -- I really needed to get those out of my house.)
Apparently there is a big Akabane festival this weekend that will be happening basically right in front of the station -- that is, right in front of our school. That might make things pretty crazy as well. They were setting up today, so every time I walked in and out of our building there were a ton of old guys just standing around pretending to look busy.
I discovered something horrible at the convenience store around the corner, too -- BBM 2008 baseball card "Light Packs". 4 cards and one is always a reflector, 105 yen, instead of the normal 8-card 210-yen packs. Convenient! Terrible! I really need to find some friends to trade baseball cards with this year :( 5 packs in and I already have a double (but it's Chunichi's Ryota Arai, and I already know I have somewhere I can sink any extra Chunichi cards, so it's ok).
I got miso ramen for dinner at the cheapo ramen place. It was good, but I splashed a little on my shirt. So naturally I arrive back at GEOS around 8:45pm, and my 9pm student shows up early and comes into my classroom and I'm just like "uhh... hi... I need to clean the miso soup off my collar, be right back." He lives in Hokkaido though (well, he goes back there every 3 weekends or so), and even went to the Sapporo Dome 2 weeks ago with his son to watch Consadole (coolest team name EVER) playing soccer against Jubilo, so I got a whole bunch of info from him about Sapporo, for my trip next week. And then we ended up spending like half an hour talking about soccer. I know I claim to know absolutely nothing about soccer, but I actually seem to have picked up a decent amount about J-League by just watching the sports news here every night.
I ended up having to lock up the building and take out the trash and all at the end of the day. Sigh. Some things never change, I guess.
One more day of work and then GOLDEN WEEK!!!!
I am going to be awash in geekery and baseball. I suppose if I was smart I would also try to sleep a lot, but sleep is for the weak, not the week.
I think I jinxed Hitoshi Tamura, too, by pointing out that he had not yet killed himself running into a wall. Tonight he managed to run full force into another PLAYER and broke his leg. Akira Ohtsuka got an inside-the-park home run out of it and Tamura ended up leaving the stadium on a stretcher. Whoops.
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