Great Views and Ichiro

Friday I had class in the early afternoon so I slept in a little bit. On my way to the train I saw Casey ahead of me. She even got on the same train car but at the opposite end. It was strange though because she got off at a stop before she needed to in order to go to her class that day. But anyways, I had class at the Asahi Cultural Center in Shinjuku. I got there a little early again though, even though I was the week before, because I wasn’t sure which room class was going to be in.

I waited by the elevators and when sensei showed up I said hello and followed him to the classroom. It was a very fun class and I felt very relaxed because except for 2 or 3 others out of the 7 of us the other half were worse than me. Hehe. After class ended I went over to the Metropolitan Government Building. It has twin towers that have great views.

In the first tower I found a cute little store that sells hanko (name stamps) of popular English names. The prices are a bit high of course because it’s a tourist trap but they had both Isaac and my names so I thought that was funny. I also took some nice pictures but unfortunately it was too hazy to see Fuijisan. =( I still want to go back though because it was free and fun. Also it was very funny that at the bag inspection before you can get on the elevators that take you up to the observatory of either building I was asked what my flute was (it’s in a wooden case) and also asked not to play. =)

When I got back I tried out my Cup of Noodle reusable cup and had some Japanese style French toast from the conbini nearby. The French toast was good though a little strange. After that I watched a special of back to back episodes of that Japanese Columbo guy. The first one was actually of him as a kid and then the second was really cool because it had the baseball player Ichiro as the guest. I was really amused.

Somewhere toward the end of the episode with Ichiro I ended up getting into a conversation with Casey and Michael in the hall about whether they were going to be going to the shoga (singing) class on Sunday or not. I let them know I wasn’t because I was going to the matsuri and mentioned that if they wanted they should come too. But I also said that if they were going that they needed to take a box of chocolate, as per Terumi-san’s instructions.

Casey was pretty sure she wasn’t going so I repeated it to Michael but as per usual he didn’t seem to care. I think that it’s pretty arrogant of him not to listen to what Terumi-san says in her emails. There is a reason why you goaisatsu and it was really annoying me that he didn’t give a crap. Whatever, I chalk it up to him being German. After that I went to bed. And now on to Saturday. Woot, almost there.