This week is club week at osaka-gaidei and everytime any of us go to the campus, we are attacked by swarms of curious people. There are only 2 other western students at the school, so we get a lot of looks. I joined Jazz band club today, or at least that's what i think i did. The girl didn't speak any english and i left half of the spaces blank in the form i filled out because i either didn't have the information or i had no idea what they were talking about. Anyways, one of the guys got invited to a girls' hockey game by a cute girl, so naturally we all went. It turned out it was girls' hockey practice and free ice time and then a boys' game. Also, Ice-Hockey Club is for anyone who wants to come and cheer, be rowdy and hang out. Ice-Hockey Club is awesome. The boys won something like 8-0 (although i'm not sure anyone kept score). Everyone in "Ice-Hockey Club" was really nice to us. Two girls (Yumi and Yuki) took the train with us (and paid!) and wandered around the middle of the suburbs somewhere looking for the arena (apparently they don't have a bus). Then when we got there, they offered us skates and told us to skate. We also got free bento boxes. Some girl gave me her coat to wear because it was cold. It was almost creepy. Now it is nearly midnight and I've been up since 2am due to jetlag. (which explains why this is less than coherent)
Here are some pictures of the view out of my window. The first is looking out of my back window to the left in the afternoon yesterday. The second is the mountain at 5am the first day I was here. My neighborhood is surrounded by mountains and they are really beautiful (when you can see them; it is often cloudy). In other news: i bought a bike today and i can ride it! It is a little awkward because Japanese bikes are balanced a little differently, but it's been so long since the last time I rode a bike, that I really can't tell the difference. The other guys had a really tough time with it though. The bikes are like women's bikes, but the pedals are a little bit forward of the seat. People don't really ride fast here, and the bikes don't have any gears. Then again, they're like $50, so it's a good deal anyhow.
My Japanese is getting a little better. I've adopted a new policy of just fumbling through nonsense until something vaguely coherent comes out of my mouth. The Japanese people don't seem to mind that i am completely butchering their language, so it works out. I'm pretty sure I said "When sumo tournament, what time is that?", trying to ask when the end of the hockey season was. I don't think they had a clue what i was talking about.
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You are ice-skating in Japan!!! You are so little. Where are all of the little japanese people?! And by they way I DID check your blog, but apparently not since you actually wrote anything ;-) You are so cool. I have to get ready for work in boring old philly, but then I will write you an email about the boring american things that are going on in case you already forgot. All those cherry blossoms and Hockey club players might be taking up all of the "memory" space in your brain ;-) i almost tried to call you again last night, realizing as I picked up the phone that you were far away in japan and probably sleeping (besides the fact that you have no phone number!) oxoxoxo
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