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what a weekend!
Oct. 3rd, 2010 05:52 pmWent back to work on Wednesday despite having a slight fever and the day went ok. So I kept going to work the rest of the week and by Friday I was feeling pretty normal.
Yesterday I was lazy so I slept in and listened to music and read until it was time for me to leave the house. I originally wanted to go see a movie at 1:30pm in Taira but Chelsea said she wanted to go see it with me and asked me if I could change it and go see the 4pm movie. I decided that it would be worth it to see her and maybe Sam too. So I changed my plans and skipped my evening stuff so that I could see my friends and watch a movie. So I got to Taira at 2:05 and let Chelsea know I was there. Then I went to get lunch at Ito Yokado. I had a big bowl of Ramen with bamboo, sea weed, onions, and meat for 380 yen and a drink and dessert. the whole thing cost me about 5 bucks. That made me happy :)
After lunch I went to a yamaha shop and looked at some clarient books. then I went to the Yamani book shop and bought the first book in the series Legend of the Gaurdians: the owls of Gahoule. Apparently there are 8 books!! So I bought the first one. I've been waiting since June to see this movie and now I'm seeing commercials for it on tv....and it's not playing in Iwaki. The closest city that has it is Koriyama which is a 90 minute bus ride (high way bus, not city bus) and it's $30 round trip plus $20 for the movie...I could buy it on blue ray for that price. So anyway. I left the book store at 3:15 and ran into Dan and Clarence. So I hungout with them for about 30 minutes and at 3:45 I went to buy my movie tickets. Rather than buy a single ticket for $18 I bought book of 5 tickets for $50. Saved a tone of money and the tickets are good for a year!
Then 10 minutes before the movie started I got an e-mail from Chelsea saying that ....well stuff...and she didn't know if she could make it. right. so I said screw it and I went to see the movie. It was a great movie! It was 2 hours and 10 minutes long. I'm really glad I went to see it because it was awesome! Then I went to the grocery store to get food for the week and got an e-mail from Candi inviting me out to drinks and kareoke. I had to turn her down since I needed to get the cold food home and I needed to catch the train to Izumi to do that. So at some point we'll be going to Kareoke. :)
I got home around 7:45 and made dinner and watched tv the rest of the night. Jersey Girl was on the Saturday night Road show and I watched that until 11. Then I called mom and Eric and talked until almost 1am.
This morning I slept in a bit and then called Kirstin and talked until 10. I watched Dragon Ball Z and One Piece and then grabbed a shower and headed out to Taira again to meed Peter. I grabbed lunch and met up with Peter and Dan at 1pm and then we went to Club Sonic for a concert. There were 7 bands playing in this tiny club. It cost 1000 yen ($10) if you booked your tickets in advance plus 500 yen for drinks. So for 15 bucks I got to see 7 bands perform live and have a drink. I opted for Pepsi instead of Beer. lol
I went to find the bathrooms just before the concert started and was discouraged to find that there was not one single western style toilet at club sonic. But I needed to go...so I did....and I was successful! I didn't make a mess at all, not on me or the floor! I am so incredibly happy that I have figured out the proper way to use the Japanese style toilet!! I've been avoiding using them since I got here. lol One of the other JETs explained how to do it without having to take your pants completely off. It worked :) So YAY FOR ME!!! LOL
The first band was pretty good. Peter knew the drummer which is how we found out about the concert in the first place. The band consisted of 5 people. the drummer and the guitarists were guys and the two singers were women. They sang hard rock. It was awesome! The last band I watched was called Kujou （九丈） and that group was by far my favourite! It was 2 guys (one singer and was musician) who played original music with Synthesizers and samples and it was awesome!! Some of it was dance and trance like...and some of it was more like ballads and they did two covers, one of the covers was a song by the petshop boys. This guy was amazing and fun and really got his audience involved. He seemed to enjoy singing to me. He was right down in my face at one point and sang to me with a big smile on his face and told me he loved me LOL (i love his song lyrics :) ) the last song he sang was from his new album that they are working on and hasn't been to the recording studio yet. So We were the first to hear it. It was called Peace and Love. Beautiful song!
After he performed I decided I had had enough (I'd been there for 2 hours by that point) and I left. I went back to Ito Yokado to buy more bread (I FOUND BROWN BREAD!!!) It costs 110 yen for 3 slices! but at least it's brown bread. Now I'm home for the evening. Going to make chicken nuggets and rice and veggies for dinner!
It was an excellent weekend. Tomorrow I'm back to school. Teaching grade 3 tomorrow. It should be fun!!
Yesterday I was lazy so I slept in and listened to music and read until it was time for me to leave the house. I originally wanted to go see a movie at 1:30pm in Taira but Chelsea said she wanted to go see it with me and asked me if I could change it and go see the 4pm movie. I decided that it would be worth it to see her and maybe Sam too. So I changed my plans and skipped my evening stuff so that I could see my friends and watch a movie. So I got to Taira at 2:05 and let Chelsea know I was there. Then I went to get lunch at Ito Yokado. I had a big bowl of Ramen with bamboo, sea weed, onions, and meat for 380 yen and a drink and dessert. the whole thing cost me about 5 bucks. That made me happy :)
After lunch I went to a yamaha shop and looked at some clarient books. then I went to the Yamani book shop and bought the first book in the series Legend of the Gaurdians: the owls of Gahoule. Apparently there are 8 books!! So I bought the first one. I've been waiting since June to see this movie and now I'm seeing commercials for it on tv....and it's not playing in Iwaki. The closest city that has it is Koriyama which is a 90 minute bus ride (high way bus, not city bus) and it's $30 round trip plus $20 for the movie...I could buy it on blue ray for that price. So anyway. I left the book store at 3:15 and ran into Dan and Clarence. So I hungout with them for about 30 minutes and at 3:45 I went to buy my movie tickets. Rather than buy a single ticket for $18 I bought book of 5 tickets for $50. Saved a tone of money and the tickets are good for a year!
Then 10 minutes before the movie started I got an e-mail from Chelsea saying that ....well stuff...and she didn't know if she could make it. right. so I said screw it and I went to see the movie. It was a great movie! It was 2 hours and 10 minutes long. I'm really glad I went to see it because it was awesome! Then I went to the grocery store to get food for the week and got an e-mail from Candi inviting me out to drinks and kareoke. I had to turn her down since I needed to get the cold food home and I needed to catch the train to Izumi to do that. So at some point we'll be going to Kareoke. :)
I got home around 7:45 and made dinner and watched tv the rest of the night. Jersey Girl was on the Saturday night Road show and I watched that until 11. Then I called mom and Eric and talked until almost 1am.
This morning I slept in a bit and then called Kirstin and talked until 10. I watched Dragon Ball Z and One Piece and then grabbed a shower and headed out to Taira again to meed Peter. I grabbed lunch and met up with Peter and Dan at 1pm and then we went to Club Sonic for a concert. There were 7 bands playing in this tiny club. It cost 1000 yen ($10) if you booked your tickets in advance plus 500 yen for drinks. So for 15 bucks I got to see 7 bands perform live and have a drink. I opted for Pepsi instead of Beer. lol
I went to find the bathrooms just before the concert started and was discouraged to find that there was not one single western style toilet at club sonic. But I needed to go...so I did....and I was successful! I didn't make a mess at all, not on me or the floor! I am so incredibly happy that I have figured out the proper way to use the Japanese style toilet!! I've been avoiding using them since I got here. lol One of the other JETs explained how to do it without having to take your pants completely off. It worked :) So YAY FOR ME!!! LOL
The first band was pretty good. Peter knew the drummer which is how we found out about the concert in the first place. The band consisted of 5 people. the drummer and the guitarists were guys and the two singers were women. They sang hard rock. It was awesome! The last band I watched was called Kujou （九丈） and that group was by far my favourite! It was 2 guys (one singer and was musician) who played original music with Synthesizers and samples and it was awesome!! Some of it was dance and trance like...and some of it was more like ballads and they did two covers, one of the covers was a song by the petshop boys. This guy was amazing and fun and really got his audience involved. He seemed to enjoy singing to me. He was right down in my face at one point and sang to me with a big smile on his face and told me he loved me LOL (i love his song lyrics :) ) the last song he sang was from his new album that they are working on and hasn't been to the recording studio yet. So We were the first to hear it. It was called Peace and Love. Beautiful song!
After he performed I decided I had had enough (I'd been there for 2 hours by that point) and I left. I went back to Ito Yokado to buy more bread (I FOUND BROWN BREAD!!!) It costs 110 yen for 3 slices! but at least it's brown bread. Now I'm home for the evening. Going to make chicken nuggets and rice and veggies for dinner!
It was an excellent weekend. Tomorrow I'm back to school. Teaching grade 3 tomorrow. It should be fun!!
