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Tuesday: Got a haircut. Mentioned.
Wednesday, day off from work, went to Tokyo Dome with Lisa. Blogged more about it on Marinerds of course.
Thursday: Normal day at work I suppose... debated going down to Tokyo Dome to get gatchapon pinbadges and see start of Fighters game. Didn't. Vague regret. After work met up with![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
the2belo and we hung out at Denny's and ate dinner. As a result I kind of had three full meals for the day (kaitensushi lunch, katsudon dinner, and then Denny's sandwich). Oh well.
Other note about Thursday is that I had a successful new student interview. Haven't done those in a while. Go me.
Friday: Went to Shinagawa in the afternoon and picked up my new visa stamp. They'd sent me a postcard the other day. What is annoying is, when you arrive you stand in line for like 5 minutes for them to process that you have the postcard, the payment stamp, and your passport. THEN they take your stuff and give you another number and tell you to wait for an hour so they can give you your passport back with a sticker in it saying your visa is extended. Got kaitensushi from the expensive place in the station afterwards. Was totally worth it.
Most of my students cancelled class that evening and I only had my 8pm. After it, at 9pm,klari and samuelp came to Akabane and we went for yakiniku dinner at Anrakutei and I did the ordering and was the Grillmaster, which was fun. Good to see Kirstin before she flies bsck to the states. I'm sure she'll be back soon.
Saturday: Went to Pia in the morning to try to get All-Star tickets, but they don't sell them in person on the first day. GRR. Instead, bought tickets to the July 28th Fighters-Hawks game in Fukuoka and the August 3rd Fighters-Eagles game in Sendai. Inaba's birthday!!! Now I just need to figure out how the fuck I will get to/from Sendai and if I will stay anywhere.
Had a bazillion classes today and then also a trial lesson, with a 9-year-old boy. He was really eager to speak English and tried very hard, and I taught him many store names and "go left" "go right" "go straight". He kept directing me out of the classroom, haha. We did the map game with Doraemon and I levelchecked him some more. Smart kid. It went something like:
"Where is the library?"
[points]
"Great! What place do you like? I like the toy store."
"I like the zoo."
"Oh, zoo is good! What animal do you like? I like tigers."
"Hmmm... I like elephant."
[puts Doraemon on the candy store] "Where's the zoo?"
"Go right-- jaa. Go left! Stop! Go right!"
His mother signed him up for a year of studying with me, I think. Dang. I'm a little worried whether he'll fit in with the other student on Friday, who's a girl and doesn't seem to like boys, but we'll see. She is also very high level for a 9-year-old so maybe they can actually learn together, I hope.
After work for whatever unknown reason I decided to hang out in Kawaguchi. Did the circuit of arcades, won some stuff out of UFO catchers, half of which is not Stitch and will go to my kid students. Ate katsudon at the cheap friendly place I hadn't been to in a while. Then stopped by in the big arcade and played Pop'n'Music. I noticed another foreign chick at the Pop'n machine next to me...
...and then I realized it was the person who had sent me a message on Mixi a while back. Her name's Naomi and she has the same last name I do, bizarrely enough, but is a lot younger than me, and I'm pretty sure we're not related. She likes Bemani and stuff like that, and so we hung out in front of the arcade for a while talking. Weird conversation, but we exchanged cellphone emails, maybe hang out again some other time, we'll see.
Ugh, why is it almost 2am? I need to be in Chiba in like... 9 hours... to sneak into the Marines-Seibu game... it's Shunsuke Day... yay...
Wednesday, day off from work, went to Tokyo Dome with Lisa. Blogged more about it on Marinerds of course.
Thursday: Normal day at work I suppose... debated going down to Tokyo Dome to get gatchapon pinbadges and see start of Fighters game. Didn't. Vague regret. After work met up with
the2belo and we hung out at Denny's and ate dinner. As a result I kind of had three full meals for the day (kaitensushi lunch, katsudon dinner, and then Denny's sandwich). Oh well.Other note about Thursday is that I had a successful new student interview. Haven't done those in a while. Go me.
Friday: Went to Shinagawa in the afternoon and picked up my new visa stamp. They'd sent me a postcard the other day. What is annoying is, when you arrive you stand in line for like 5 minutes for them to process that you have the postcard, the payment stamp, and your passport. THEN they take your stuff and give you another number and tell you to wait for an hour so they can give you your passport back with a sticker in it saying your visa is extended. Got kaitensushi from the expensive place in the station afterwards. Was totally worth it.
Most of my students cancelled class that evening and I only had my 8pm. After it, at 9pm,
klari and samuelp came to Akabane and we went for yakiniku dinner at Anrakutei and I did the ordering and was the Grillmaster, which was fun. Good to see Kirstin before she flies bsck to the states. I'm sure she'll be back soon.Saturday: Went to Pia in the morning to try to get All-Star tickets, but they don't sell them in person on the first day. GRR. Instead, bought tickets to the July 28th Fighters-Hawks game in Fukuoka and the August 3rd Fighters-Eagles game in Sendai. Inaba's birthday!!! Now I just need to figure out how the fuck I will get to/from Sendai and if I will stay anywhere.
Had a bazillion classes today and then also a trial lesson, with a 9-year-old boy. He was really eager to speak English and tried very hard, and I taught him many store names and "go left" "go right" "go straight". He kept directing me out of the classroom, haha. We did the map game with Doraemon and I levelchecked him some more. Smart kid. It went something like:
"Where is the library?"
[points]
"Great! What place do you like? I like the toy store."
"I like the zoo."
"Oh, zoo is good! What animal do you like? I like tigers."
"Hmmm... I like elephant."
[puts Doraemon on the candy store] "Where's the zoo?"
"Go right-- jaa. Go left! Stop! Go right!"
His mother signed him up for a year of studying with me, I think. Dang. I'm a little worried whether he'll fit in with the other student on Friday, who's a girl and doesn't seem to like boys, but we'll see. She is also very high level for a 9-year-old so maybe they can actually learn together, I hope.
After work for whatever unknown reason I decided to hang out in Kawaguchi. Did the circuit of arcades, won some stuff out of UFO catchers, half of which is not Stitch and will go to my kid students. Ate katsudon at the cheap friendly place I hadn't been to in a while. Then stopped by in the big arcade and played Pop'n'Music. I noticed another foreign chick at the Pop'n machine next to me...
...and then I realized it was the person who had sent me a message on Mixi a while back. Her name's Naomi and she has the same last name I do, bizarrely enough, but is a lot younger than me, and I'm pretty sure we're not related. She likes Bemani and stuff like that, and so we hung out in front of the arcade for a while talking. Weird conversation, but we exchanged cellphone emails, maybe hang out again some other time, we'll see.
Ugh, why is it almost 2am? I need to be in Chiba in like... 9 hours... to sneak into the Marines-Seibu game... it's Shunsuke Day... yay...