DearScotty

Instead of trying to piece together another Thanksgiving holiday in Japan, Theresa and I abandoned the kitchen and took a night bus to Tokyo. For that taste of home we decided to spend the weekend at Tokyo Disney. Unfortunately for us, our bus arrived in Tokyo around 10am on Friday. We would do Disneyland first since Friday would be our shortest day, but we didn’t expect that it would sell out! We arrived at Disneyland just after 11am and were welcomed with apologies from the overhead announcements informing us that Disneyland had stopped all ticket sales until 5pm that night.

There wasn’t anything we could do but hang out in their version of Downtown Disney which they call Ikspiari. We ate a decent burger and fries meal at Planet Hollywood and enjoyed some coffees at a cute bakery. We went into every shop trying to kill as much time as possible but later decided to wait near the gates until they reopened the ticket booths.

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I’ve learned two things this week. 1. I don’t have the half moon on my pinkie nails any longer. 2. I don’t have to double space after completed sentences. Apparently I’ve held on to the practice of double spacing from the typewriter days. Computers have corrected typewriters with proportional spacing so it makes it easier to catch the difference between sentences.

Because this week is reserved for testing, I have no classes. I also don’t have hair on the top of my pointer finger above the first joint. All my other fingers have hair there. I also completed the 10k gold “fun” level on desktop tower defense with a score of 23,500.

Japan is boring but! but! Theresa and I are going to Tokyo Disney and DisneySea this 3-day weekend. Let the jealousy help warm my frozen toes.

It feels like only recently that I was picking up ice-cold Pocari Sweats on my way to school in the morning. Now, instead of something to cool me off when I reach school, I’m picking up the hot teas and coffees. There’s about one week of autumn where every thing is nice, no rain, partly cloudy, dew sparkles on the rice fields, and a fresh smell in the air. Next thing you know, your hands are freezing, and icicles start forming on your eyebrows. Then all the flashbacks of the horrible winter the year before strike you like a lighting bolt of sleet. Soon, I’ll be wearing ear muffs, two coats, scarves and gloves. The weather is so extreme here that you forget about anything else. When it was steaming hot, I couldn’t imagine how on earth this place could ever cool down. Now that I’ve frozen three toes off, I wonder how this place ever gets warm.

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Patriots vs Colts, the battle of the undefeated. Which powerhouse would come out still holding onto their perfect record? With 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter and trailing 20-10, the Patriots make a run for the end-zone. Tom Brady does his thing and tosses a short touchdown pass to bring the Patriots within three (after the point after is good). The Colts get the ball back and seem to have something going but after getting hit with a few penalties, have to punt the ball over. The Patriots now have four minutes to take the lead. Oh the suspense!! “Excuse me, I am Kazo. I am English teacher.”

WTF??!!?!?!!!??? Well, I guess that answered my question. Eguchi is gone and replaced by a very young male teacher. He showed me his lesson plan which was all in Japanese and then thanked me. I hadn’t checked my schedule since I knew today was an off day. No Eguchi sensei meant no classes on Monday, which meant football. I was due in his first class in 5 minutes. I was not formally introduced, or informed of Eguchi’s plight.

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As I rode my bike to school today I was passed by this car:

I wasn’t able to tell if the driver was in fact a whore.