Sugoi Gaijin

So after Karaoke, I had to crash at someone’s apartment and by someone, I meant Annie’s. We forced David to stay over too, he was drunk as hell. It’s awesome when Englishman get drunk, suddenly, they’re not so polite anymore ha ha ha, but I digress. The morning started out normally. I was awoken by my cellphone at around 6:30 AM; we slept at around 3AM, so that gave me roughly 3 and a half hours of sleep. Lovely, isn’t it? Not only that, I woke up Annie and David and boy were they pleased!

Actually, they had no idea what was going on. They woke up, quite disoriented, whereas me, who knew perfectly well that my cell phone’s alarm went off, quickly got up and shut the damn thing off :mad:! I really felt bad for Annie, because for some reason, the cell phone ended up right next to her head :oops:! So she was especially upset. Now I know what you may be thinking, why the hell didn’t I turn off my cell phone? Well, I did! This was actually the first time I turned it off, except my phone decided to turn itself back on in order to wake me. How thoughtful of it! I went back to sleep again, only to be woken up about an hour or so later by the F*ing sun! When sunlight’s shining on your head, you just can’t sleep, it’s not possible. I put the covers over my head, but that caused my body to sweat profusely, so I finally gave up, in my sweaty body and tried to reorient my head!

Are you bored yet with this blog entry? Because I am…so let me just paraphrase to the more palatable parts. Um…David and I had a very controversial 3 hour conversation. Then I started to teach him American English, (the real kind). Though the only thing I remember teaching him is that in England they go to the “loo” and in America, we go to the “shitter” (or “crapper” is acceptable). Annie made pankakes, chocolate chip ones at that, so we didn’t need syrup.

Ok, Fast Forwarding!

So we toured Ishinomaki a bit. First was Frisbee on the fake grass! You see, there’s no real grass in Japan. In fact, if you ever see grass, it’s probably fake and will relaly let you down. I one time went to this park and I was like, Holy shit, there’s grass here! Then I touched it and realized that it didn’t feel soft and wavy like normal grass. It felt very cold and lifeless; like a cross between a grass and a weed. You could even tell it was layed in patches and the grass never quite mixed. But this other place that we played frisbee at was even worse; it just felt like astro turf. I think the only place i’ve ever seen real grass was from a distance at this really elite private school. Until I touch it, I can never be sure, but I’m beginning to think that grass is a sign of wealth here. No wonder peeps think we’re so rich in America! We all have grass!

So first was frisbee, then next was basketball. Guys vs. girls…well, almost. There were two girls and three guys, so one of the guys played always offense. I dunno how that really worked, because he always missed when he was playing for us and sank the basket when he was playing for the girls. There was a definite conflict of interest going on. Afterwards we went to a picture photo booth. It was my first time and I must say, these things are on steroids :razz:! In America, you take a couple shots, pick your favorite ones (if you find a good one that is) and then have the prints printed out. Ok, in Japan, it is a long complicated process involving picking backdrops, taking 6 pictures and then custom designing each and every one. It took us 30 minutes for a simple photo booth picture, but I must say, it was really worth it.

Ok, I’m going to stop before I kill myself from boredom. I’m actually watching Japanese television while I write this. I have no idea what the hell anyone’s saying.

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