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The last few days
Haven't been writing journal entries. Not much to say -- well there is, but most of it's introspective what-am-i-doing-in-japan stuff. In a good way. Like, I've been having many very peaceful moments while riding my bike or walking around alone late at night, and it's always like "I could not do this anywhere else in the world."
So yeah, baseball on Tue/Wed. And going to Hokkaido. Need to buy plane tickets still, but have baseball tickets, which is the first step.
Thursday I had a phone interview for a summer job and today I got email saying they're interested in me, so I need to decide in the next day or two, and go in for an orientation meeting later this month, something like that. It'd put me out of commission during the daytime on Aug 3-7 and 10-14, but I'd still have the evenings free to go to the Fighters games and whatever else is going on. I'd basically be leading kids on fieldtrips during the day... in English.
But yeah, Thursday night and Friday night I essentially did nothing, being exhausted after school from 3-4 hours each day doing mock Eiken interviews with some of my 3rd-year students. I don't even remember what food I ate or anything -- think I went to Heiroku on Friday though. I spent time working on blog stuff a bit and goofing off on PP and such.
Saturday, I decided to go watch baseball, and went for the cheapest and healthiest option, which was Shonan Searex at Lotte Urawa Marines, in other words, a minor-league game that was free of charge and 6 miles away, so I rode my bike there and back too. I have gotten to the point that I no longer know if 12 miles round trip is a long bike ride or not. It felt GOOD though -- it was around 25 degrees and cloudy outside all day, which was fantastic bike weather.
Stopped at Kappa Sushi on the way back for dinner. Kappa is another 100-yen sushi place, up on Road 17. (Seriously, all the 100-yen sushi places are way far away from stations.) Anyway, they VASTLY improved it since last time I was there -- now there are not only touch screens for ordering, BUT they also have these adorable train thingies that deliver your orders! Most normal 100-yen touch-screen places, your order just comes out on the normal belt and beeps when it gets to you or something. But at Kappa there's a second track above the belt and the staff puts the plates on this train thingy and WHOOOOSH it comes to your spot, you take the plates and hit a red button and WHOOOOSH the train thingy slides back away. It's awesome.
Oh, I did laundry on Saturday too.
I ostensibly cleaned up the house a bit too, but nowhere near enough. I'm such a lazy slob.
Today I just hung out here for most of the day. I ate shells&cheese (my last box, sigh) and watched the Fighters game on TV, which they won in the bottom of the freaking 12th after Hisashi Takeda blew the save. So it was a 5-hour game. Went to Yokado after that for some errand-shopping-stuff.
You know what I can't figure out? How am I being eaten alive by bugs here when I don't SEE any bugs and I have tons of spit-chemicals-into-the-air-to-repel-bugs things all over the place? Yet my legs are totally bitten up and I have a few bites on my arms too. I can write off the legs to sitting out at Lotte Urawa yesterday, but WTF, seriously.
So, Gokusen the Movie just came out and Harry Potter comes out on Wednesday here.
I think my plan is to go see at least one of them next Wednesday the 22nd since it'll be "Ladies Day". Or something like that. Hard to believe just 4-5 more days of school and then I'll be on summer vacation...
So yeah, baseball on Tue/Wed. And going to Hokkaido. Need to buy plane tickets still, but have baseball tickets, which is the first step.
Thursday I had a phone interview for a summer job and today I got email saying they're interested in me, so I need to decide in the next day or two, and go in for an orientation meeting later this month, something like that. It'd put me out of commission during the daytime on Aug 3-7 and 10-14, but I'd still have the evenings free to go to the Fighters games and whatever else is going on. I'd basically be leading kids on fieldtrips during the day... in English.
But yeah, Thursday night and Friday night I essentially did nothing, being exhausted after school from 3-4 hours each day doing mock Eiken interviews with some of my 3rd-year students. I don't even remember what food I ate or anything -- think I went to Heiroku on Friday though. I spent time working on blog stuff a bit and goofing off on PP and such.
Saturday, I decided to go watch baseball, and went for the cheapest and healthiest option, which was Shonan Searex at Lotte Urawa Marines, in other words, a minor-league game that was free of charge and 6 miles away, so I rode my bike there and back too. I have gotten to the point that I no longer know if 12 miles round trip is a long bike ride or not. It felt GOOD though -- it was around 25 degrees and cloudy outside all day, which was fantastic bike weather.
Stopped at Kappa Sushi on the way back for dinner. Kappa is another 100-yen sushi place, up on Road 17. (Seriously, all the 100-yen sushi places are way far away from stations.) Anyway, they VASTLY improved it since last time I was there -- now there are not only touch screens for ordering, BUT they also have these adorable train thingies that deliver your orders! Most normal 100-yen touch-screen places, your order just comes out on the normal belt and beeps when it gets to you or something. But at Kappa there's a second track above the belt and the staff puts the plates on this train thingy and WHOOOOSH it comes to your spot, you take the plates and hit a red button and WHOOOOSH the train thingy slides back away. It's awesome.
Oh, I did laundry on Saturday too.
I ostensibly cleaned up the house a bit too, but nowhere near enough. I'm such a lazy slob.
Today I just hung out here for most of the day. I ate shells&cheese (my last box, sigh) and watched the Fighters game on TV, which they won in the bottom of the freaking 12th after Hisashi Takeda blew the save. So it was a 5-hour game. Went to Yokado after that for some errand-shopping-stuff.
You know what I can't figure out? How am I being eaten alive by bugs here when I don't SEE any bugs and I have tons of spit-chemicals-into-the-air-to-repel-bugs things all over the place? Yet my legs are totally bitten up and I have a few bites on my arms too. I can write off the legs to sitting out at Lotte Urawa yesterday, but WTF, seriously.
So, Gokusen the Movie just came out and Harry Potter comes out on Wednesday here.
I think my plan is to go see at least one of them next Wednesday the 22nd since it'll be "Ladies Day". Or something like that. Hard to believe just 4-5 more days of school and then I'll be on summer vacation...
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I so want pictures of that train thing!
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Let me get back to you ASAP--will figure out what I want. <3