from a stressful week to a refreshin' weekend.
the weekend got a good start durin' vball practice on friday. after warmups, i had a quick little meetin' with the girls and reinforced the goals of the next drill: ookii koe dashite (loud voice), callin' every ball and most importantly; the ball should not touch the floor. i kinda got mad at them a few days earlier cuz when the other school came to practice with us(they only have 12 girls) in our 'house', why the #%@&! are they louder than us? (we have 18 girls). so when we did the drill, i saw a completely different team out there. they hussled for every ball while the girls who were waitin' were cheerin' them on. they seemed to have reignited that fire in them that has been dormant for so long. i was also surprised to see toita sensei show up for practice. we did some game situation drills with rena, rie, yukako and me against them. it was probably the most productive practive we've had in the past 2 weeks.
had a nice meal @ ikko. headed home early cuz i was tired, tried to stay up for kinpachi sensei, but for some reason, it wasn't on, so i went to bed. get a call like @ 0130 from chacha mama tellin' me to come by. i was like, uh...i'm kinda sleepin' right now but she insisted. she doesn't insist that often, so when she does, it's kind of an obligation to come, so i did. hung out with mi-chan and yoshi, then headed over to serenade. before i knew it, it was 0430!?!
tried to sleep in but couldn't cuz of my internal alarm clock. did tons of laundry and packed up for the weekend in tokyo.
met up with tama @ 'pongi for her ikebana exhibit. i was pretty amazed at some of the arrangements. and after tama taught me the fundamentals of ikebana, i have more of an appreciation for it now. we then hopped on a bus and went to shibuya. from there, i headed to b's to drop off my stuff and hang out with him and rick. b left early cuz he had a weddin' to go to. rick and i then headed to shibuya for dinner with shuko's crew @ gonpachi. gonpachi was the restaurant that was used in kill bill, HOWEVER, we didn't go to that one :( we went to the other one. the restaurant was really nice inside and we got a nice little private room overlookin' tokyo. rick's team consisted of: jt (sf), scott (hawaii), jeremy (KENTUCKY), jun (ny) and me (sl). shuko's team: yoko (ny), emi (jersey), haley (pen/ny), jenny (la), aki (too many places). so it was a kind of a east coast/west coast with a cat from da midwest which made the conversation quite interestin'. didn't really eat that much food, but i know that rick, shuko, me and a few others killed 3 bottles of kome sho chu. some peeps had to leave early (not sure how jt was goin' to run a half-marathon the next day) and things started to wrap up from there. for the nijikai, headed upstairs to this really chic bar. we sat at this godfather-esque table and of course rick took the head. b met up with us there and we only had like one drink before headin' to go eat some ramen. things are a bit blurry from here on out and i remember jumpin' in a cab with rick, jenny & b. came back to b's and it was lights out.
the next day, b and i had lunch with these 2 girls who grew up in da states. yumi (hawaii, 8 yrs) & kanami (torrance, 15 yrs) were pretty interestin'. they aren't your typical j girls. they were constantly givin' each other shiet which was kinda funny to see. for lunch, we went to eat hawaiian food @ this restaurant that maki works at. took a while to get there cuz somebody kinda forgot where it was...but we eventually made it. the food was good and then we headed back to shibuya for some coffee and met up with one of kanami's friend. he was a fullback for his school's football team. don't get to meet too many football players in nihon. we went to this one little cafe that yumi picked out. it wasn't crowded and it was very cozy.
came back to b's and chilled. watched the art of war and ordered some pizza. came home @ around 2330 and went to bed.
i must say, it was a ja overload this past weekend. it totally felt that i wasn't in japan. in the wise words of my big bro, "it's so refreshin' not havin' to think in japanese and to be able to just relax and be yourself"
anyhow, since i got 4th period off today, i went to lunch early and was able to shoot around durin' lunch break. i also got to work out a bit near the end of the day after all the kids went home (this week is midterms, so there's no club sports this whole week) i kno i've been laggin' on my free throw shootin', but i was able to catch up. so here are the current results:
free throw %
today: 17-20
tot: 55-70
ft%: .786
.: here are the pics from saturday :.
the weekend got a good start durin' vball practice on friday. after warmups, i had a quick little meetin' with the girls and reinforced the goals of the next drill: ookii koe dashite (loud voice), callin' every ball and most importantly; the ball should not touch the floor. i kinda got mad at them a few days earlier cuz when the other school came to practice with us(they only have 12 girls) in our 'house', why the #%@&! are they louder than us? (we have 18 girls). so when we did the drill, i saw a completely different team out there. they hussled for every ball while the girls who were waitin' were cheerin' them on. they seemed to have reignited that fire in them that has been dormant for so long. i was also surprised to see toita sensei show up for practice. we did some game situation drills with rena, rie, yukako and me against them. it was probably the most productive practive we've had in the past 2 weeks.
had a nice meal @ ikko. headed home early cuz i was tired, tried to stay up for kinpachi sensei, but for some reason, it wasn't on, so i went to bed. get a call like @ 0130 from chacha mama tellin' me to come by. i was like, uh...i'm kinda sleepin' right now but she insisted. she doesn't insist that often, so when she does, it's kind of an obligation to come, so i did. hung out with mi-chan and yoshi, then headed over to serenade. before i knew it, it was 0430!?!
tried to sleep in but couldn't cuz of my internal alarm clock. did tons of laundry and packed up for the weekend in tokyo.
met up with tama @ 'pongi for her ikebana exhibit. i was pretty amazed at some of the arrangements. and after tama taught me the fundamentals of ikebana, i have more of an appreciation for it now. we then hopped on a bus and went to shibuya. from there, i headed to b's to drop off my stuff and hang out with him and rick. b left early cuz he had a weddin' to go to. rick and i then headed to shibuya for dinner with shuko's crew @ gonpachi. gonpachi was the restaurant that was used in kill bill, HOWEVER, we didn't go to that one :( we went to the other one. the restaurant was really nice inside and we got a nice little private room overlookin' tokyo. rick's team consisted of: jt (sf), scott (hawaii), jeremy (KENTUCKY), jun (ny) and me (sl). shuko's team: yoko (ny), emi (jersey), haley (pen/ny), jenny (la), aki (too many places). so it was a kind of a east coast/west coast with a cat from da midwest which made the conversation quite interestin'. didn't really eat that much food, but i know that rick, shuko, me and a few others killed 3 bottles of kome sho chu. some peeps had to leave early (not sure how jt was goin' to run a half-marathon the next day) and things started to wrap up from there. for the nijikai, headed upstairs to this really chic bar. we sat at this godfather-esque table and of course rick took the head. b met up with us there and we only had like one drink before headin' to go eat some ramen. things are a bit blurry from here on out and i remember jumpin' in a cab with rick, jenny & b. came back to b's and it was lights out.
the next day, b and i had lunch with these 2 girls who grew up in da states. yumi (hawaii, 8 yrs) & kanami (torrance, 15 yrs) were pretty interestin'. they aren't your typical j girls. they were constantly givin' each other shiet which was kinda funny to see. for lunch, we went to eat hawaiian food @ this restaurant that maki works at. took a while to get there cuz somebody kinda forgot where it was...but we eventually made it. the food was good and then we headed back to shibuya for some coffee and met up with one of kanami's friend. he was a fullback for his school's football team. don't get to meet too many football players in nihon. we went to this one little cafe that yumi picked out. it wasn't crowded and it was very cozy.
came back to b's and chilled. watched the art of war and ordered some pizza. came home @ around 2330 and went to bed.
i must say, it was a ja overload this past weekend. it totally felt that i wasn't in japan. in the wise words of my big bro, "it's so refreshin' not havin' to think in japanese and to be able to just relax and be yourself"
anyhow, since i got 4th period off today, i went to lunch early and was able to shoot around durin' lunch break. i also got to work out a bit near the end of the day after all the kids went home (this week is midterms, so there's no club sports this whole week) i kno i've been laggin' on my free throw shootin', but i was able to catch up. so here are the current results:
free throw %
today: 17-20
tot: 55-70
ft%: .786
.: here are the pics from saturday :.
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月曜日, 11月 15, 2004.
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