Touche Pussycat

Yesterday I went to Osaka again and spent a ton of money on an electronic dictionary, some memory for my computer, and a region free DVD player. Region free? Well to further divide the world, the world is divided into 6 regions for DVDs. Japan is region 2 and the USA is Region 1. Australia is region 4 and so on. So I have DVDs that region 2 from Japan and some DVDs that I brought with me so I had to find a player that could play both. I found such a player in Den Den Town. I found a nice Pioneer region free player. A tough find at a good price.
So yeah. And then also bought a Tom and Jerry DVD. You know the one where they are in France and there is that little grey mouse that says 'touche, pussycat.'
The language barrier isn't so bad. Actually at times it is good. Usually I don't have much to say in English, I guess so I am at times kind of dull. There are times that I don't really want to talk to people or don't have anything to say to people here. So at times it is good to have the language barrier and people here understand that I am quiet because I can't speak Japanese too well and they can't speak English too well.
I am here at Kasamatsu elementry school on a Sunday. They had a big relay race in which all the students ran this morning. So today is sort of a school day. The school is close and it is a Sunday so I thought I'd stop by and give my support.