Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Late night Monopoly

Friday was spent at Sougawa-Elementry school. That same day there were reports of a large snake on the loose in those parts of the mountains. Two weeks before that it was a bear on the loose. Nobody ever got hurt. People in that small town were just concerned. I was looking forward to playing Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 2 in Wakayama that night. I went with Kitayama-sensei to have dinner and then then go to Wakayama on Friday night. I thought I had a goo enough car, but it really wasn't that great. I was able to win most of the time. A little disappointed.
Saturday was another trip to the theater in Japan. This time it was to see SW:EPIII ROTS. Saturday was a special showing of the movie throughout Japan. We went the first showing at 3pm. The theater we went to in Gobo was maybe a quarter full. I had a blast watching it, but I felt as if the other people really didn't know what was going on. Although I did see some Japanese people come out of the theater in a great mood. So some people knew what was going on. It is a movie that in a way is made for the fans. Well you jsut have to pay attention and remember what happened in the first 2 movies.
After the movie I drove about and hour and a half out to Hongu. There was suppose to be a Monopoly party or something, but it ended up just being 4 of us and we then played Monoply until 3:30am and then went for a cold swim in the river near-by. The sun was coming out by the time we made it to sleep.
The next was then a bit rough, and I had to go to Osaka. I had to check on my Toy Mall case that I have been renting at a store near Den-Den Town. I ended up in Osaka by about 3:30pm. Turns out I did sell a bunch of stuff out of that case. Good thing I went up there. I then also wanted to see what the 'pro' Wangan MMT2 players were like. I found several awesome players up in Umeda, Osaka. They were nuts and I felt like I had then been playing the game all wrong. I just watched them play and didn't even play myself.
As for today, the normal English teacher is sick here at the Junior High. So I just showed SW:ANH to two classes. I even set it to Japanese dialogue so the students could understand the movie better.