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Fighters minor league games are fun
Wheeee.
So today I spent the afternoon at Lotte Urawa stadium for a Fighters-Marines minor-league game. I mean, I didn't have class until 5pm, so a 1pm game in Musashi-Urawa was pretty doable. (It'd be even more doable on a Friday - no class till 6 - but for some reason they don't seem to have minor league games on Friday up here very often. There's a few upcoming Friday games in Kamagaya but maybe that is pushing it...)
I got there, looked for an empty seat, and... my friend (?) Hiromi found me. She's a crazy Fighters fan who goes to like 4-5 games a week, mostly minor-league in the Kanto area. I met her in Kamagaya in mid-May, saw her again at the Tokyo Dome, she gave me her card, and we exchanged an email or two but I didn't write back because I suck at Japanese and she doesn't speak English.
So she said to come sit with her! So I did.
She has a D80 and an awesome 18-200 VR lens and I have a D200 and a crappy 70-300 lens. So I'm like "dude! I want your lens", and she's like "dude! I want your camera!"
We took pictures of Fighters players for the whole game and chatted with the people around us. To my right was this old guy who had been a Fighters fan for like 40 years or so. He was talking about the 1981 Japan Series. That was pretty crazy. And we were having a discussion about high socks, and about whether the Fighters have any "cool young players" like so many other teams do, and so on. Oh, and a bit about Jason Botts, the new pickup by the Fighters. Hiromi wanted me to cheer for him in English but I was too scared to say anything!
I also had to admit I am really familiar with the Marines. I was babbling about how Kohbe is my ni-gun boyfriend, so Hiromi decided that Sadaoka was really cool, and we both took pictures of those guys. Oh yeah, and she was at the Swallows ni-gun game last week where Hichori came back. She said he was even out signing stuff! Arrgh!
Koichi Hori hit a homerun, so did Sadaoka, and so did Fighters catcher/2B Ozaki, and the Fighters team won 10-7.
It was really kind of neat to just talk in Japanese for like 4 hours straight, but my brain was bursting by the end. The other neat thing was feeling like "hey! I have a Japanese friend to watch the Fighters with! Awesome!" I really should answer her email and maybe hang out at another Fighters game sometime.
Anyway, I came back to GEOS and the 5pm kids' class target was "How much is it? / N dollars." SO what I had done was, I bought play money at Daiso and I also bought a bunch of candy and some pencils and erasers. And I put price tags on all the stuff. And then made vocabulary cards with stuff they should know already, and the other side had a money value. So after getting all the stuff done, they had to be like "How much is the ______" about each vocab card. If they got the right word, they got the money value on the back. Then when they had a lot of money I had them ask "How much is the pencil?" and such and actually BUY the prizes from me.
Kids like money. It went well.
I just hope their parents don't ask them why they came home with a ton of gummies and Ramune candies and all.
So today I spent the afternoon at Lotte Urawa stadium for a Fighters-Marines minor-league game. I mean, I didn't have class until 5pm, so a 1pm game in Musashi-Urawa was pretty doable. (It'd be even more doable on a Friday - no class till 6 - but for some reason they don't seem to have minor league games on Friday up here very often. There's a few upcoming Friday games in Kamagaya but maybe that is pushing it...)
I got there, looked for an empty seat, and... my friend (?) Hiromi found me. She's a crazy Fighters fan who goes to like 4-5 games a week, mostly minor-league in the Kanto area. I met her in Kamagaya in mid-May, saw her again at the Tokyo Dome, she gave me her card, and we exchanged an email or two but I didn't write back because I suck at Japanese and she doesn't speak English.
So she said to come sit with her! So I did.
She has a D80 and an awesome 18-200 VR lens and I have a D200 and a crappy 70-300 lens. So I'm like "dude! I want your lens", and she's like "dude! I want your camera!"
We took pictures of Fighters players for the whole game and chatted with the people around us. To my right was this old guy who had been a Fighters fan for like 40 years or so. He was talking about the 1981 Japan Series. That was pretty crazy. And we were having a discussion about high socks, and about whether the Fighters have any "cool young players" like so many other teams do, and so on. Oh, and a bit about Jason Botts, the new pickup by the Fighters. Hiromi wanted me to cheer for him in English but I was too scared to say anything!
I also had to admit I am really familiar with the Marines. I was babbling about how Kohbe is my ni-gun boyfriend, so Hiromi decided that Sadaoka was really cool, and we both took pictures of those guys. Oh yeah, and she was at the Swallows ni-gun game last week where Hichori came back. She said he was even out signing stuff! Arrgh!
Koichi Hori hit a homerun, so did Sadaoka, and so did Fighters catcher/2B Ozaki, and the Fighters team won 10-7.
It was really kind of neat to just talk in Japanese for like 4 hours straight, but my brain was bursting by the end. The other neat thing was feeling like "hey! I have a Japanese friend to watch the Fighters with! Awesome!" I really should answer her email and maybe hang out at another Fighters game sometime.
Anyway, I came back to GEOS and the 5pm kids' class target was "How much is it? / N dollars." SO what I had done was, I bought play money at Daiso and I also bought a bunch of candy and some pencils and erasers. And I put price tags on all the stuff. And then made vocabulary cards with stuff they should know already, and the other side had a money value. So after getting all the stuff done, they had to be like "How much is the ______" about each vocab card. If they got the right word, they got the money value on the back. Then when they had a lot of money I had them ask "How much is the pencil?" and such and actually BUY the prizes from me.
Kids like money. It went well.
I just hope their parents don't ask them why they came home with a ton of gummies and Ramune candies and all.