Week in Review
This week I learned that you cannot buy a Wii in Imabari…yet. You cannot reserve one, either. And the people who work at Saty are probably the most clueless about the situation. Most helpful? Probably the folks who work at GEO. Yamada Denki sits firmly in the middle – not helpful, but not completely inept. Oh well. C’est la Wii. (Ouch. I know.) I shall wait. Wait until the new Zelda game can be mine. At least I got fun Japanese phone practice in and used a few minutes on my plan, so it’s justified.
I went to Imabari on Monday and Tuesday to teach at Imabari Nishi High School. I collected some goofy essays to grade over the weekend – a few excerpts will be forthcoming, for those who are anticipating giggling at these poor students making an honest attempt at writing an essay about their favorite things. I also headed to the Mexican Cafe again.
Party Report – general consensus: awesomeness was experienced by all. A big thank you to my teachers at Oshima who threw this enkai for me, and to the guests who showed up from far away places. It was great. I was absolutely stoked, and it was well deserved stokedednessicity. (That’s even more of a fake word than ain’t. And I didn’t even shy away from it for a second.) We had loads of yakitori and beer in Imabari after a day at Nishi High School. It was GREAT. Some choice sentences were, as Aileen will testify, “I am sorry. I am crazy.” (Spoken by the most serious and down to earth sweet guy in the room at the time.) And…the best one… ”…sexual harrassment…心配ですね…” Ha ha ha. Fun times. (Safe times too, for Mom and worried friends. It was all in fun.)
Favorite bits of yumminess were: fried cheese with strawberry jam, gobo sticks, chicken skin on sticks, grilled leeks, and a hormone salad. Some of you probably think hormone salad sounds really disgusting, but it was actually really good. As far as I can tell, “hormone” refers to any random bit of meat from the animal it is listed under. In this case, it was the closest thing to bacon I have had since coming to Japan. Mmmm.
Wednesday had me back at Hakata HS, where I did a lot of dilly dallying. I felt bad not being useful, but there was simply nothing for me to do. So the day ended and I headed home to get a decent night’s sleep in preparation for Yuge on Thursday and Friday.
Coming up this weekend: party on Sunday for ICIEA (the International Association for Imabari), then shopping on Sunday with Will. Unplanned goofing off is likely to occur. Stay tuned for updates after the weekend.
