2009.01.28

I ate whale today. It was good. It was in some ketchup-based sauce. De-lici-ous. Absolutely delicious. It tasted like chicken. Just a bit tougher. Like the tough parts of a chicken.
Oh yeah. Enjoy classes today. Went to a meeting in the afternoon. Helped people transfer money to home accounts. Then went out with them. Had a Sea Breeze for the first time in my life. It was pretty good. Pink as heck though. Well, assuming heck is really really really really pink, that is. Had a couple of beers. Had some spicy chicken stuff. Got texted by some really really really really strange guy.
Let me set this up for you...and tell you that I'm 99% sure I don't know who he actually is.
1) his message to me: "Don't send such perverted pictures. They make me want to masturbate" That was the message, and I knew that I didn't know him from then 'cause I've NEVER sent ANYONE any perverted pictures. Ever. Except to that one guy, but that really doesn't count since it was my friend knockers that were covered.
2) my message to him: "I think you have the wrong number. Who are you?"
3) his message: "I didn't make a mistake. Don't you know me? I am that bad? I'm from Akita, and my name is ------."
4) my message:

HOLY HELL, his last message before the one he just sent was "Don't you want to see my penis?" (let it be known that I haven't responded at all after the one that I was sure would end it...well two actually; the first being "Yes, it's no good. Sorry" (with sorry in English), and "(It's no good) because I don't know you" (which was evident after he asked me who I was...) BUT, he just sent me a message with an attachment. I don't think I've been more creeped out in a while. In a good long while. I think I'm going to hide under my sheets now and turn that traitorous phone off.

2008.12.05

Today I was with the third years for the morning. It was rather fun. They are cuties. We got to joke around in English - which is always interesting. Did a little joking in Japanese, but not as much since it is English class and whatnot. Got asked if I was a virgin. Just so you know, "cherry girl" does, indeed, mean what you think it does. It took about 30 minutes to get an answer as to what it meant 'cause there are some things you just don't want to ask...just in case you are wrong and you just asked the students 'no sex? sex?' and they take that the wrong way. Seriously though - it's embarrassing to tell the meaning of the word, but it's not embarrassing to ask the question. That's the part that gets me. If they would have just told me what it meant, I would have answered, but I didn't 'cause they didn't. Next time maybe they'll help a foreigner out.
At 1 I left for the ALT meeting. It was pretty good as far as ALT meetings go. After that, kinda hung out and drunk some chuuhai and played some Tekken and soccer. Then it was off to the Christmas party. It was at an Indian restaurant. Very nice. It was delicious and fun. I took no pictures 'cause I didn't have my camera, but it was indeed a nice night. We did a nomi, and had a set menu. After that, a few of us went out to karaoke for about 2 hours. It was bordering on Christmas karaoke, but...well, what the hell, it was Christmas karaoke. Three glasses got broken...that was nomi karaoke. Luckily, this time, I listened to my body, so I stuck to orange juice and today I don't really have a hang-over. Who knows, it might hit me in the middle of the day. All I do know is that I'm going to get dressed and go to the gym, then do other things. The package for my mom is not going to be shipped out today either. I realized at 2 in the morning that I have no tape to tape it shut, so there's no mailing the sucker out. That, and I've yet to find somethings for my aunt and cousins. I think maybe some Matsushima stuff. He is the mascot for this area. And who doesn't love mascots?

2008.09.03

Today was a practice session at some elementary school with a long name (Kamisugiyamadori). I got to do my self-intro (again!) today. I don't think it went too badly, but I definitely wasn't the best. I'm not sure if there was a worst since everybody just has a different way of going about things in an intro. Either way, it was fun. After that was the monthly ALT meeting. A lot of announcements. Pretty informative as far as announcing things went. But, I must say that I am enjoying my wallet. Expensive as it was, it does the job well and feel damn good doing it.
After the monthly meeting, I had coffee with one of my sempai's - Waylon - and had a good chat with him. Rather interesting fellow. Now if only I wasn't so socially awkward I might be able to have a less one sided conversation with him. Either way, the coffee was good, as was the conversation. After that, we took the subway and I walked him to his gym since it wasn't that far from where I was going. It started to storm. Not too heavy on the rain, but there was a little bit of lightning and thunder. It seems to be completely stopped now, however.
When I got home, I had a note from the Pelican - a postal system here in Japan - that my book from Amazon came, but he couldn't leave it. So, I gave him a nice little call and he redelivered it. I now have my Thor comic. Fun times. Fun times.