Home Sweet Home
And a sweet home it is. This past weekend was a three day one to celebrate the first day of spring. And how is the first day of spring? Frickin’ raining. But then again lots of stuff went down this past weekend that can’t make me spirits down.
Although last week Thursday St. Patrick’s day, Krystal and I had to pass on the night of green beer because of the procrastinated moving schedule. We got a lot of stuff done but we still had to pass on the Friday night festivities with some other JET folkas well. Anyway Saturday finally came and we knew it was going to be very tiring day.
We got up fairly early Saturday morning to do some last minute cleaning. Then we had the pleasure of the MIICH to get the rental van and drive it through the heart of Kyoto City, with all of our crap stuffed to the roof. We had the van for about 5 hours but surprisingly we were able to finish in about 3. I would like to send a personal THANK YOU to: William, MIICH, Kevin, Val, Colleen, Steve, Amie and Scott for making moving day especially easy for us. The day ended with a total gluttony-fest at a yakiniku place. The beer and beef flowed like water to our table and I’m sure that everyone was pretty stuffed after we left. It was the least we could do since people were hung over, others had prior engagements, people cam eon their lunch break, and others decided to help us even though a day of vegging was on their schedule. Thanks Guys we couldn’t have done it without you.
The new place the Rez-O is AWESOME! I believe the apartment is the size of Krystal and my old apartment put together. Not to mention the balcony we have so we may be able to dry our clothes just like everyone else. Everything about the new place is bigger. The only thing bad was I was late this morning because I had to turn off a lot of lights that were left on in almost every single room thanks to Krystal. Nothing like a nice run to the train station to start the day.
On Sunday we had our trip to Costco. We had Kevin came this time as well as other newbies like An-Chan and Akiko. An-Chan brought her son Hikaru and he was the cutest 5 year old I’ve seen here in Japan. At first he was very shy and wouldn’t even like look us in the face but by the time we were in Costco he was laughing and playing around with s. It’s so funny how Costco brings people out of their shells, like James. We got home around 7:3- but still needed to do some shopping so went to the nearest department store to buy a couple of shelves and other household necessities.
Monday we even a cooler day. We went to Osaka to check out the Spring Sumo tournament. The past few months we have been involved in sumo so it was cool to check out the place we see on T.V. every other month. If you thought that sumo wrestlers were big you haven’t seen them in real life. These guys are huge and I don’t mean just fat, but HUGE! It really hit me when I saw a wrestler named Ama. On T.V. he looks like the guy that is awkwardly small in the silk mawashi (sumo belt). But in real life he was a good foot taller than me and I knew that he could probably take me out with just one hit. For lunch we went to Kua’Aina Burgers. It was kind of weird because I’ve only eaten at Kua’Aina’s a few times back home so when we went there for lunch it still felt a little foreign to me. Nevertheless the burger and fries were awesome.
At the tournament we went looking for wrestlers to get autographs and stuff and guess who we run into? MUSHASHIMARU! Man that guy is huge! Supposedly one of he great yokozunas to ever battle on the clay arena it was truly an honor to meet him. Krystal was wearing her HAWAII sweat shirt and I had on a loud orange and yellow aloha shirt so he immediately warmed up to us.
Me: May I get an autograph?
Mushashimaru: ok… you from Hawaii?
Me: Yes
Mushashimaru: From which part?
Me: Honolulu, Kaimuki side.
Mushashimaru: Oh-yeah? Kaimuki-side?
Me: This is so awesome that I get to meet Mushashimaru.
Mushashimaru: So wat some Hawaiians doing in Osaka.
Me: We’re actually in Kyoto teaching English to elementary school kids.
Krystal: We’re teaching them the Aloha spirit and some hula. Heehee
Me: Also some local pidgin.
Mushashimaru: Good good.
He was a man of little words but it was till awesome to meet him. (The conversation wasn’t exactly like the one above but it was the jist of it) Sumo ROCKS!
So its Tuesday and it’s the last day of school for my Tuesday school. Kind of sad to say goodbye but the thing is that I might come back. I wouldn’t mind coming back here, I think all the students like me. Actually while on the computer writing this out a couple of fourth graders came into the staff room to say good bye one last time. So sweet huh? Anyway this is getting long, talk to you dudes later.
Break it down
Although last week Thursday St. Patrick’s day, Krystal and I had to pass on the night of green beer because of the procrastinated moving schedule. We got a lot of stuff done but we still had to pass on the Friday night festivities with some other JET folkas well. Anyway Saturday finally came and we knew it was going to be very tiring day.
We got up fairly early Saturday morning to do some last minute cleaning. Then we had the pleasure of the MIICH to get the rental van and drive it through the heart of Kyoto City, with all of our crap stuffed to the roof. We had the van for about 5 hours but surprisingly we were able to finish in about 3. I would like to send a personal THANK YOU to: William, MIICH, Kevin, Val, Colleen, Steve, Amie and Scott for making moving day especially easy for us. The day ended with a total gluttony-fest at a yakiniku place. The beer and beef flowed like water to our table and I’m sure that everyone was pretty stuffed after we left. It was the least we could do since people were hung over, others had prior engagements, people cam eon their lunch break, and others decided to help us even though a day of vegging was on their schedule. Thanks Guys we couldn’t have done it without you.
The new place the Rez-O is AWESOME! I believe the apartment is the size of Krystal and my old apartment put together. Not to mention the balcony we have so we may be able to dry our clothes just like everyone else. Everything about the new place is bigger. The only thing bad was I was late this morning because I had to turn off a lot of lights that were left on in almost every single room thanks to Krystal. Nothing like a nice run to the train station to start the day.
On Sunday we had our trip to Costco. We had Kevin came this time as well as other newbies like An-Chan and Akiko. An-Chan brought her son Hikaru and he was the cutest 5 year old I’ve seen here in Japan. At first he was very shy and wouldn’t even like look us in the face but by the time we were in Costco he was laughing and playing around with s. It’s so funny how Costco brings people out of their shells, like James. We got home around 7:3- but still needed to do some shopping so went to the nearest department store to buy a couple of shelves and other household necessities.
Monday we even a cooler day. We went to Osaka to check out the Spring Sumo tournament. The past few months we have been involved in sumo so it was cool to check out the place we see on T.V. every other month. If you thought that sumo wrestlers were big you haven’t seen them in real life. These guys are huge and I don’t mean just fat, but HUGE! It really hit me when I saw a wrestler named Ama. On T.V. he looks like the guy that is awkwardly small in the silk mawashi (sumo belt). But in real life he was a good foot taller than me and I knew that he could probably take me out with just one hit. For lunch we went to Kua’Aina Burgers. It was kind of weird because I’ve only eaten at Kua’Aina’s a few times back home so when we went there for lunch it still felt a little foreign to me. Nevertheless the burger and fries were awesome.
At the tournament we went looking for wrestlers to get autographs and stuff and guess who we run into? MUSHASHIMARU! Man that guy is huge! Supposedly one of he great yokozunas to ever battle on the clay arena it was truly an honor to meet him. Krystal was wearing her HAWAII sweat shirt and I had on a loud orange and yellow aloha shirt so he immediately warmed up to us.
Me: May I get an autograph?
Mushashimaru: ok… you from Hawaii?
Me: Yes
Mushashimaru: From which part?
Me: Honolulu, Kaimuki side.
Mushashimaru: Oh-yeah? Kaimuki-side?
Me: This is so awesome that I get to meet Mushashimaru.
Mushashimaru: So wat some Hawaiians doing in Osaka.
Me: We’re actually in Kyoto teaching English to elementary school kids.
Krystal: We’re teaching them the Aloha spirit and some hula. Heehee
Me: Also some local pidgin.
Mushashimaru: Good good.
He was a man of little words but it was till awesome to meet him. (The conversation wasn’t exactly like the one above but it was the jist of it) Sumo ROCKS!
So its Tuesday and it’s the last day of school for my Tuesday school. Kind of sad to say goodbye but the thing is that I might come back. I wouldn’t mind coming back here, I think all the students like me. Actually while on the computer writing this out a couple of fourth graders came into the staff room to say good bye one last time. So sweet huh? Anyway this is getting long, talk to you dudes later.
Break it down
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