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Inaba!!!!!!!!
Someone will have to explain to me what it is about guys named Inaba that makes them become absolutely and completely irresistable at the age of 35 or so. Seriously. The same thing happened to me like ten years ago with Koshi Inaba of the B'z rock duo, and now with Atsunori Inaba of the Fighters. He was playing right field, so we were sitting behind him for the entire game again, just like yesterday, and he HIT THREE HOME RUNS IN CONSECUTIVE ATBATS!!!!! Love love love. Maybe I'm just tired.
The only bad thing is... I broke my Canon IXY camera... it fell out of my pocket during an Inaba jump :( Now it will take photos but won't view them or take movies. I can't switch the mode, basically. And it makes weird noises. But well, it was a cheapo camera a year ago so maybe I'll have to get another. But that cost plus a new lens for my D200 is going to be somewhat annoying to swallow.
But at least I got to sit up front again with a big group of people. We were even on the big screen this time, probly due to an abundance of Inaba (3 HR) and Koyano (2 HR) signs in our group. And my friends said that we were on TV last night with our Tadano/etc signs. Woo. Oh yeah, Sakamoto was at this game and came down and waved to me in the 2nd inning so I chased him back up to the top of the stands and sat there with him for an inning, behind the ouendan and with the crazy people. I saw Mushiga-san who always gives me bizarre random crap whenever I see him... but this time he gave me an Opening Day schedule magnet from when he went up to Sapporo for Fighters opening weekend! how cool is that?
I vaguely got ditched after the game as all my friends in my group up front left fairly soon and didn't even stay for the entire post-game cheering session, so they missed us doing "Kamisama Hotokesama Inabasama" ("God, Buddha, Inaba") and some other stuff. Then I tried to catch up with Sakamoto and the weirdoes, but they were all talking really excited about something, I couldn't catch it all and didn't know 2/3 of the people in his group so I waved and left alone. I did talk to a few Fighters fans on the train though, one dude had his bag signed by a whole ton of players so I was admiring it like "dude! why did Ken Miyamoto sign in English?" or "oh, you got Sunaga! wasn't he great tonight?" and things like that. And he was like "Why the hell do you know who all of these guys are?" But they warmed up to me eventually - right when I got to my stop. Figures. either way it's just as well since I'm so tired. I've slept like 9 hours in the past 2 days.
Today I had work at the school again. There was very little for me to do, so I read through textbooks and tried to think up lesson plans. I had "school lunch" for the first time. It wasn't bad (fish, some bean-fried rice, some salad, strawberries... but unfortunately plain milk to drink, yuck). The funny moment of the day was when the teacher's meeting, which started at 3, went over... so at 4 I was the only person in the teacher's room... and students kept coming in like "ummm... we need the keys for the sports closet" or various other stuff and they mostly would ask in Japanese and then try really hard to ask in English. It was cute. "midori no kagi, aru?" and I'm like "midori? english that?" and they'd say "GREEN KAGI" and I'd be like "ok" and then tried to find it for them.
I have other stuff I could say about work but not in a public entry, sorry.
It should be picking up pace on Friday when I actually start classes for real, at any rate.
The only bad thing is... I broke my Canon IXY camera... it fell out of my pocket during an Inaba jump :( Now it will take photos but won't view them or take movies. I can't switch the mode, basically. And it makes weird noises. But well, it was a cheapo camera a year ago so maybe I'll have to get another. But that cost plus a new lens for my D200 is going to be somewhat annoying to swallow.
But at least I got to sit up front again with a big group of people. We were even on the big screen this time, probly due to an abundance of Inaba (3 HR) and Koyano (2 HR) signs in our group. And my friends said that we were on TV last night with our Tadano/etc signs. Woo. Oh yeah, Sakamoto was at this game and came down and waved to me in the 2nd inning so I chased him back up to the top of the stands and sat there with him for an inning, behind the ouendan and with the crazy people. I saw Mushiga-san who always gives me bizarre random crap whenever I see him... but this time he gave me an Opening Day schedule magnet from when he went up to Sapporo for Fighters opening weekend! how cool is that?
I vaguely got ditched after the game as all my friends in my group up front left fairly soon and didn't even stay for the entire post-game cheering session, so they missed us doing "Kamisama Hotokesama Inabasama" ("God, Buddha, Inaba") and some other stuff. Then I tried to catch up with Sakamoto and the weirdoes, but they were all talking really excited about something, I couldn't catch it all and didn't know 2/3 of the people in his group so I waved and left alone. I did talk to a few Fighters fans on the train though, one dude had his bag signed by a whole ton of players so I was admiring it like "dude! why did Ken Miyamoto sign in English?" or "oh, you got Sunaga! wasn't he great tonight?" and things like that. And he was like "Why the hell do you know who all of these guys are?" But they warmed up to me eventually - right when I got to my stop. Figures. either way it's just as well since I'm so tired. I've slept like 9 hours in the past 2 days.
Today I had work at the school again. There was very little for me to do, so I read through textbooks and tried to think up lesson plans. I had "school lunch" for the first time. It wasn't bad (fish, some bean-fried rice, some salad, strawberries... but unfortunately plain milk to drink, yuck). The funny moment of the day was when the teacher's meeting, which started at 3, went over... so at 4 I was the only person in the teacher's room... and students kept coming in like "ummm... we need the keys for the sports closet" or various other stuff and they mostly would ask in Japanese and then try really hard to ask in English. It was cute. "midori no kagi, aru?" and I'm like "midori? english that?" and they'd say "GREEN KAGI" and I'd be like "ok" and then tried to find it for them.
I have other stuff I could say about work but not in a public entry, sorry.
It should be picking up pace on Friday when I actually start classes for real, at any rate.
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