Friday, February 25, 2005

So much, so little time

Where to begin. I don't know. My world here has really been flipped upside-down in the past week, and mainly becasue of a few little things. Some people have noticed that in my last few posts I might have not been the normal me, but I don't really know that hte normal me is anyways. So yes after last Thursday I have been busy straight and doing everything.
Well I'll start from my last post and see how far I get, if I can make it all the way up to today. Well, last Thursday night I had my shoudo class, which is Japanese calligraphy. I enjoy it, it is fucking hard and I don't really know enough Japanese to do it, but I try and it does feel good when you get a chracter just right, and you know when it looks good. So maybe in about 20 years or so I might be able to do. Right now I take the class with the a bunch of elementry school kids and am writing out Kanji that frikin 1st and 2nd graders use and maybe some that 3rd graders use. But hey, give me a break. I know that people think that I may never be able to do it, but I might prove them wrong someday. Someday.
Ok, so still on Thrusday, but on another note, my junior high is small, maybe what 11 teachers in all, not including me. So out of the 11, all of which are cool, there area two girls my age, that is 25 and 26. Both single, I think, but I know they aren't married, so if they have any boyfriends I'll just bust that shit up. So this one girl has grown on me, she's been here since October last year, but I really haven't started to talk to her until now. She is cool and so I asked her, via phone email(which EVERYONE uses in Japan), if she wanted go eat somewhere on Friday. So I did it was cool. On Friday I had to go to Kasamatsu elementry school and do my thing. Which was actually a great bunch of fun. Those kids are always great and for some reason I was all jazzed up and excited through-out the whole day. It was a ton of fun and learned to play this card slapping game with the teachers. So then I went home, and met up with that girl. We drove to Gobo(35 minutes away) and ate Uniagi(fresh water eel). It was damn good. She busted out more English than I thought she knew. Afterwards we decided to go back to Miyama and had some tea at my place. I was tired and had to leave at 6:00am the next morning so she took off early and I hit the hay.
I woke up at 5:30, did the 3 S's and left. Left in time to make it to Gobo and catch the 3 necessary trains to get to Tokyo. It took 6 hours in all to get all the way up there. So I was there at 12:30 and already tired. I still have yet to recover a week later. The trains were awesome. Well the Shinkansen or bullet trains were the shit. I took the Nozomi 700 up there. Let me tell that these trains are like no othere anywhere. They are so fast that it feels like you are floating. Sometimes the train made some sort of howling sound too. And if there was a dip in the tracks, the train took it like an airplane going through tublulance and you could feel your stomach jump a bit. Plus the seats were pimping and you can drink beer and whatever. So it took only 2 and half hours to get from shin-Osaka to Tokyo.

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