Time for the weekly this-is-what-I-did-this-weekend entry! Saturday morning I had to wake up early to go to Minami Shougakkou for an “open school” thing. Parents come to observe classes, and it’s a big deal and blah blah blah. I taught directions to both 3nensei classes. Although I was bitter about being there on a Saturday morning, it was really fun. The kids are so cute! I could seriously play Simon Says with them for five hours and they wouldn’t get tired of it.
I went in there and KNEW I was going to be attacked by an English leech at some point during the day, and sure enough, it happened! Some lady comes up to me all of a sudden and is like “Hi, I’m a teacher at blahblahblah, are you free December 18th?” Um, I don’t fucking know! When I asked why, she explained “Please come to Cultopia (culture center) in the afternoon on Sunday 18th” For what? “Cultopia on Sunday 18th!” Yes, that’s nice, but for what purpose? “Cultopia on the 18th!” Um, yeah. I was supposed to give her my cell phone info later, but SOMEHOW forgot to do so, hehehe.
The main reason I was bitter about teaching in the morning was because the annual Ashikaga Wine Festival took place on Saturday and Sunday, and I had literally had it on my calendar since August! Hehe. Don’t get in the way of Jeff and wine!
My last class was done at 11:40 and I figured there was no way I could get out of school, bike home, change clothes, pack up food, and get to the train station for the 12:22 train, but somehow I had fucking time to spare?! The ride downhill to Minami Shougakkou takes 10-15 minutes, but I somehow made it uphill in 7 minutes! Moral of the story: never underestimate an alcoholic on a bike!
Anyway, I finally got to the wine festival and many people were very happy off of their wine. It was only $15 for admission, a bottle of wine (or grape juice, pshaw!), a wine glass and a corkscrew! HELLO! Anyway, I busted out my bottle as quickly as possible, which maybe was a bad sign of things to come. It was fun hanging out with people (like every ALT was there), and the weather was very nice, tho a crazy Gunma windy day. After going through my ‘free” bottle, I decided that naturally I must have another. So, I went down with Minako to buy a bottle. It was my lucky day, as I found the one Japanese person bad at math! A bottle was 1300 yen, and I gave her a 5000 note and got 4700 yen back! HELL YEAH!! $3 bottle of wine, mothahfuckah!
After finishing the second bottle, we all had to catch the last bus back to the train station. It was Cindy’s birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY CINDY!!!!), so we went out for Italian in Ota. Mmm, it was yummy!
After dinner, drunk Jeff was craving a bit of karaoke, so some of us went out to sing some tunes, and get drunk a second time in one day. Yet another bad sign of things to come. It was crazy, tho, ‘cause we literally hadn’t done karaoke in at least 2 months. That’s like 10 years in Japanese karaoke time! Like four banana islands, 2 gin and tonics and a beer later, Jeff was druuuuuuuunk. My conversation to myself while swerving around on my bike on the way home consisted of “Holy shit, I’m drunk. DRUNK. Drunkety drunk drunk drunk!” over and over. Hmm, yes, bad signs galore.
At home I had my drunk yakisoba and Pizza Man, semi-chatted with Cindy (with lots of typos, sorry, Shinders!) and ASSED the fuck out.
Monday, November 21, 2005
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3 comments:
guess it is ok to drink and bike there? :D
Actually it's illegal, but we'll ignore that fact :)
Hmm...I guess there were many illegal activities we partook in on Saturday. ;-)
Anyway, thanks for a great birthday! It was fun...even with the grape juice!
And yes, I understood everything you typed that night...*cough*
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