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Kutabare Yomiuri!
Quick update since I fell asleep last night almost immediately after getting home:
I went to school, had 6 classes, it was pretty exhausting.
Funniest moment was telling Alice in Wonderland to a group of 2nd-year students, mostly boys, who wouldn't stop yelling "arisu kawaiiiii!!!" ("Alice is cute/pretty!") every time I held up a picture. At one point I'm holding up a photo of Alice talking to Humpty Dumpty, they're shaking hands, so I've gotten to that photo like "What is Humpty Dumpty saying?" in other classes, and most people catch on to "Hello. My name is Humpty Dumpty." fairly quick. In this particular class, the most talkative boy yelled out, in Japanese, "Alice, will you go on a date with me?"
I'm not supposed to understand Japanese, supposedly, but I lost it and started cracking up at that point.
School lunch was some kind of fried egg omelet, I guess, with some rice and pickled vegetables, and some miso soup, and also a halved kiwi fruit.
In the evening I bolted from the school and got to Jingu as fast as I could. Simon had bought me a discount ticket (he's in the Yakult Swallows fan club so he can do that) and met me at the gate at 5:53pm and gave me my ticket and I followed him to the top of the stands, where we were sitting with the Tsubamegun guys and some of their friends in the Swallows cheering section. I hate the Giants, and it was a Swallows-Giants game, so even though I haven't been in the actual Swallows outfield since um... 2004? it was okay, since I've heard the songs more than enough times to follow along. I wore my Furuta shirt and brought a normal umbrella, and the Swallows beat the Giants 6-2 with former Fighter Kawashima Keizo hitting a 3-run homerun. Unfortunately former Fighter Ogasawara hit two homeruns for the Giants, but that's ok.
I got to meet their "personal beer guy" Oji -- that's not really his name, it means "prince" in Japanese, but they call him that because the guy is a real Swallows fan and goes to non-Jingu games and sits in the stands with them, so during Jingu games they only buy beer from him, he apparently sells more beer than anyone else in the outfield. And then during the 5th inning Christopher went and ordered pizza from Pizza-La and had it delivered to Gate 18. He told me that the pizza place actually has his "home address" down as Jingu Stadium, Gate 18 because that's the only place he ever calls and orders to.
Oh yeah, and the Japanese clan of folks behind us were just plain crazy. One of them, who didn't seem to speak any English, carried a megaphone and kept yelling towards left field, "Ramirez!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!"
I got to do the umbrella dance a lot, it was fun. Mysteriously I seem to have picked up most of the lyrics to Tokyo Ondo.
I tried to explain to most people there, "I'm really a Fighters fan, but boy do I hate the Giants, so I'm happy to come here and yell a lot."
Good times. But after the game I pretty much walked back to Gaienmae with Simon, we took the subway to Shibuya, went our separate ways, and when I got home, I had enough consciousness left to basically go to the convenience store and pay a bill that had a deadline of today, and then collapse into sleep. Wasn't even awake for the sports news. Whee.
PS -- this is the shirt Christopher's going to order for us:
how cool is that? :) it basically says "I *HATE* the Giants!"
I went to school, had 6 classes, it was pretty exhausting.
Funniest moment was telling Alice in Wonderland to a group of 2nd-year students, mostly boys, who wouldn't stop yelling "arisu kawaiiiii!!!" ("Alice is cute/pretty!") every time I held up a picture. At one point I'm holding up a photo of Alice talking to Humpty Dumpty, they're shaking hands, so I've gotten to that photo like "What is Humpty Dumpty saying?" in other classes, and most people catch on to "Hello. My name is Humpty Dumpty." fairly quick. In this particular class, the most talkative boy yelled out, in Japanese, "Alice, will you go on a date with me?"
I'm not supposed to understand Japanese, supposedly, but I lost it and started cracking up at that point.
School lunch was some kind of fried egg omelet, I guess, with some rice and pickled vegetables, and some miso soup, and also a halved kiwi fruit.
In the evening I bolted from the school and got to Jingu as fast as I could. Simon had bought me a discount ticket (he's in the Yakult Swallows fan club so he can do that) and met me at the gate at 5:53pm and gave me my ticket and I followed him to the top of the stands, where we were sitting with the Tsubamegun guys and some of their friends in the Swallows cheering section. I hate the Giants, and it was a Swallows-Giants game, so even though I haven't been in the actual Swallows outfield since um... 2004? it was okay, since I've heard the songs more than enough times to follow along. I wore my Furuta shirt and brought a normal umbrella, and the Swallows beat the Giants 6-2 with former Fighter Kawashima Keizo hitting a 3-run homerun. Unfortunately former Fighter Ogasawara hit two homeruns for the Giants, but that's ok.
I got to meet their "personal beer guy" Oji -- that's not really his name, it means "prince" in Japanese, but they call him that because the guy is a real Swallows fan and goes to non-Jingu games and sits in the stands with them, so during Jingu games they only buy beer from him, he apparently sells more beer than anyone else in the outfield. And then during the 5th inning Christopher went and ordered pizza from Pizza-La and had it delivered to Gate 18. He told me that the pizza place actually has his "home address" down as Jingu Stadium, Gate 18 because that's the only place he ever calls and orders to.
Oh yeah, and the Japanese clan of folks behind us were just plain crazy. One of them, who didn't seem to speak any English, carried a megaphone and kept yelling towards left field, "Ramirez!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!"
I got to do the umbrella dance a lot, it was fun. Mysteriously I seem to have picked up most of the lyrics to Tokyo Ondo.
I tried to explain to most people there, "I'm really a Fighters fan, but boy do I hate the Giants, so I'm happy to come here and yell a lot."
Good times. But after the game I pretty much walked back to Gaienmae with Simon, we took the subway to Shibuya, went our separate ways, and when I got home, I had enough consciousness left to basically go to the convenience store and pay a bill that had a deadline of today, and then collapse into sleep. Wasn't even awake for the sports news. Whee.
PS -- this is the shirt Christopher's going to order for us:
how cool is that? :) it basically says "I *HATE* the Giants!"
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*coffeeptewph*HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA.
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