Hot and sunny.
I woke up this morning a little after 8 am and decided not to go back to sleep. It was a beautiful sunny day, so I decided to get dressed and go to the park for a walk. So, that's what I did. I put on my clothes, grabbed my hat, iPod and Alien Registration card, hopped on my bike and rode to the park. When I was there, I parked my bike and then spent the next 15 minutes walking. It was actually rather nice, except I should remember to warm up next time.
I came home, had some coffee and got on with my day. I had a quiet morning at home. I watched Monk from earlier in the week and then rewatched Desperate Housewives because there was nothing else on. I went back and re-cued the episode for Fumihiko. I even left him a note on the table today telling him that he could watch it if he wanted to. He went to bed on the show last night.
I had a nice lunch and then left for work. I made good time on my bicycle. However, I did have scratch my head at some Junior High School girls that passed me on the way. We were all on the sidewalk on our bicycles. They were riding three abreast. I've often thought that two bikes side by side is too much, three was asking for trouble.
My school was a sweltering 27 degrees when I got there so the air conditioner went on right away. I also did some vacuuming before my first class. However, my first student cancelled today. She's off on a business trip tomorrow and wasn't quite ready to leave yet. She scheduled another class for next week.
My other two classes went fairly well. We all seemed to have a good time. In my last class of the day we talked about some of the craftwork that we've done in our lives. That was fun.
Fumihiko sent me a message just after 9 and sounded like he was in a good mood. He must have watched the video! I wasn't ready to go though. Today I had a lot of filing and paper shuffling to do. It took a long time. I also had my regular paperwork to do after my class so I wasn't able to finish until almost 10. I called Fumihiko at the point when I was going to do my dishes.
He picked me up and we decided to go to Fireball again. We went last week and it was a fairly nice Italian restaurant with terrible music. Tonight we went and were the only customers. I had pasta again, fish and mushrooms in a basil sauce. It was okay. The fish and mushrooms were tasty, but I couldn't really taste the basil sauce. Fumihiko had half a chicken, roasted Mexican style. We weren't sure what that meant, but it was served with some nice salsa on the side, so maybe that made it Mexican? Anyway, tonight's music was much better, heck they even played Rod Stewart, so you know I'd be happy! Fumihiko's chicken was great, my pasta was good, so another nice restaurant. We finished up and paid. Fumihiko did apologize to the chef for keeping him as we finished after the closing time. Sorry!
We came home and just vegged. We chatted a little bit about this and that, but Fumihiko went to bed after a while. I should be off soon too. The earlier than usual morning made me a little tired.
Got to go. Night!
4 comments:
Yeah, you don't want to leave without that gaijin card lest you risk arrest and a 200,000 yen fine. :-p I get annoyed at having to get it every time I open the front door or step out to put the trash in front of our building.
The riding 3 abreast thing irritates me as well. Mostly, it's kids or teenagers who do it. I think they just don't care about other people.
Is that how much the fine is now? Egads!
The park has a small Koban just opposite it so you can see why I wouldn't want to risk it.
I never take my card out unless I'm traveling back to Hawaii. Never.
One good side of the "Inaka"
Tsuruoka isn't a very big place really, but I'd rather not risk running into an officer who doesn't like foreigners or hasn't made his arrest quota (if they have such a thing) for the month!
Sides, this is one of the laws that predates my coming to Japan so I try to follow it!
Thanks for visiting :-)
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