The Last Night

Friday was the first night (Saturday morning to be exact).  Tonight is the last night.  I'm not really sure what to think.  Not really sure how to feel.  I don't know what will happen after this.  It hasn't even been a week, and feels more like just a day or two.  I've gotten maybe 13 hours sleep total after about 4 days (yesterday I got a full 8 hours).  The timing of all this was really bad.  It's weird to imagine what would have happened had I been, say, 2-3 weeks quicker.  I don't really know what to say, I'm sure I'll have a lot though after tonight.

有り難う【ありがとう】 (arigatou) Thank you

GTA5, Health Examination, End of Japan for Me

I haven't been as diligent in writing entries as I'd hoped, but it's fine, there's not that much to report I guess.  Since the last update I got GTA5 and have been playing that for a while, abusing the glitches.  It's much better than GTA4 as it isn't as repetitive.  The online is pretty cool too.

Took the annual health examination a week or two ago.  It's amazing because they give you a cup to pee in then make you walk around with it for a while before handing it off to someone.  We also have to give stool samples and the guy who took it was wearing one glove, and of course he took the sample with the hand without a glove.  Love this country sometimes.

A little over 2 years into my time in Japan, and it's decided.  I'm not signing up for another year.  The past 2 years I really felt that I wanted to do another year, but this year I don't feel like that.  I feel like I've stayed long enough.  I still have 9-10 months left, and those'll go by quick, and at the end I'll feel really sad about leaving, but I'll also feel like I haven't left anything behind.  I'll be very happy with my 20s and the fact that I was overseas or trying to get back overseas for roughly half of that decade.  I can't believe I'll be 30 by the time I get back to the US.  When I signed up to go over for Japan I was 26.  Seems so long ago.

I still don't know what I'm going to do for Christmas.  I definitely want to go somewhere.

保険検査【ほけんけんさ】health examination

Tokyo Game Show, Sumo, Tank Girls, Etc

So a week after my last post I went to Tokyo for 3 days and got to check out the Tokyo Game Show.  I've always wanted to go to one of those things ever since I found out about E3, and it was pretty much what I expected.  I got to see some people walking around cosplaying, got to try out some of the new games including the new Killer Instinct that'll only be for Xbox One unfortunately, and bought an overpriced Kingdom Hearts keychain. I also got to watch my neighbor get whooped by Daigo (famous street fighter player among competitive gaming nerds).  Cool experience, but since I don't play games as much as I used to, I'm cool with missing it next year.


The next day, on Sunday, we went to see sumo!  We bought a small box section to sit in which was really small, maybe the size of a standard dinner table, for a little over $100 a person to sit in.  I got there around 1 and watched the rest of the matches until 6.  Both the yokozunas won though, so there was no cushion (zabuton) throwing into the ring, which would have happened, had the yokozunas lost.  That night we also went to an AKB48 cafe in Akihabara and got served by a real AKB member (I think).


That same night we went to a place called Robot Restaurant.  It wasn't so much a restaurant as it was an entertainment show with near naked girls dancing around with robots.  It wasn't my idea to go but it was an awesome show!  Very erotic!  I want that tank!


Atsushi Hirano met us there for the show, and then we went back to his place to sleep which was ironically in Fujisawa.  We went back to where I used to live and it was really nostalgic.  The next day we went to see the Daibutsu and visit a few temples before I headed back.  It was a good trip and hopefully I'll have more of those before I go back to the states.

I just have to say that there is a lot of drama in Kesennuma with the ALTs here.  Lots of people don't like this or that ALT, it's hard trying to juggle who to hang out with and who I shouldn't invite to this or that.  I'm getting a little tired of it all.

懐かしい【なつかしい】 nostalgic