man, it was pretty frickin' hot this past weekend. playin' vball for 4 hrs in a non a/c gym really sucked but was fun. got to meet one of ami's team members who's from atlanta. real bubbly personality.

after that, headed over to 西船橋駅 to meet up with aya and atsuko. aya has been havin' some crazy bad luck lately. one bein' lockin' her keys in the car when she went to the gas station and just before meetin' up, droppin' her purse into the toilet. we headed over to odaiba to meet up with ricky, lou and marc. walked around a bit, had some grubbin' hokkaido ice cream and went to this dope sports store. they were also havin' this frog style summer festival. frog style is the little toys that i collect from the $1 machines. they had tons of stuff there. shirts, ties, yukatas, balloons and even books. i got the book that had the whole collection. after that, we drove over to komazawa to eat at kula.

thought maki had that day off but she was there. so we just left the food up to her. highlights included:

- finally got to meet shin
- had some interestin' hawaiian pale ale
- atsuko straight downed her first drink
- lou goin' out of his comfort zone by orderin' a mango juice
- the table next to ours had this big rat (tiny dog) that tried eatin' off rick's late

we all barely made the last train home. hung out at cha cha afterwards with kawanaka san, the same guy that found my wallet. found out that he's a certified HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) parachuter. also found out that one of my other drinkin' friends passed away. he was young too, only in his early 30's. haven't seen him that much these past 9 months but last summer, we kicked it quite often. rest in peace...

the next day, slept and got a call @ around noon. happened to be mama and she told me to come over for lunch. when i got to her place, there was a little party goin' on. mama, minoru, yasuko and minoru's niece and her husband. they just got married in taiwan a few days before and are now goin' to tochigi, so they stopped over in funabashi for a day to hang out. he's currently in med school @ oregon state and has been livin' there for about 15 years, so he's pretty americanized. she's japanese from japan but studied in america for a few years. since his level of japanese is limited, it was quite refreshin' to be able to speak in west coast english. yasuko was gettin' mad at me since she couldn't understand. she even hit me!?! so, mama calls sensei over and we all talk while watchin' the slideshow from their weddin'. since they had to catch the shinkansen to tochigi, they caught the bus which comes right in front of mama's apt. yasuko busted out a 10,000円 so sensei busted out 100円 to give to them. ken chan came later and we all just hung out, ate sushi and drank.

headed home around 1500, got ready and headed out to ohanajaya where megu just moved into a new place and to celebrate her bday. got to meet a lot of new peeps. 2 girls from america, one girl from scotland and a bunch of japanese peeps. since it was a potluck temaki party, people brought various things to put in. this one dude, testu, brought some 大トロ, which is the highest grade of fatty tuna. i must say that megu's place is pretty dope. it's a pretty new apartment complex, but the inside is laid out well. all her kitchen appliances are brand new, full makeshift bar on the kitchen counter, lcd tv, slim form factor pc, nice furniture along with her 4 snowboards displayed on a wall. the only drawback is that it's a little far from the station. megu put me and this other guy, ito, to work by havin' us prepare the sushi rice. brought back memories of when my mom had my sister and i fan the rice. couldn't really get the 味 right, but it wasn't a big deal. after a long nite of fun, headed out @ around 2300 to catch the train. had to escort nao (lives near ikebukuro, 45 min) and ayumi (saitama, 1 1/2!?!) to the station cuz they were pretty drunk. had to keep them from walkin' into the street.

another muggy day at school. didn't really have lessons cuz we just went over the midterms. honda sensei had me run the review in japanese. it's kinda koo how he makes me practice my japanese. i think it's a good way to show to the students that i'm tryin' hard at a foreign language even tho i make mistakes here and there. well...i hope the students see that. since all of the classrooms face the field as well as the gym, durin' class, we could hear and see all the students swimmin' durin' p.e. class. made the classes a bit hard to teach cuz i was constantly thinkin' of swimmin' in the nice cool water ;( it was a shortened schedule day cuz the teachers had counselor trainin' so durin' the afternoon, i stayed in the teachers' room. however today was a special day cuz it was the first day that we used the brand spankin' new a/c!!! man, it makes a total difference. i'm glad that the city finally put in da money and think about the teachers for a change.

it's another hot and muggy day but i'm chillin' in da nice and cool teachers' room. headin' out early today for an interview. wish me luck. just wanted to thank: b, jt and rick for providin' me with some great information.

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