Change of plans

Today, I didn’t do much in the morning. I woke up late and then headed out to Shibuya to meet up with EK. I haven’t seen him in a long while. I guess since I wasn’t told that I wouldn’t have to go to the annual teacher’s relaxation trip that I just assumed that I was going, that was a big mistake. Since now I’ve just wasted a lot of time and time is something that shouldn’t be wasted. I had made a change in my plans and had the free time to meet up with him.

I had asked him to bring his laptop computer so I could watch a video that my friends had made for me for my birthday. But because I know EK very well, I knew that he would forget to bring it. Which in fact was the case. I also presumed that he would show up late from the time that we both agreed to, and again, I was correct. He was earlier than I thought, but still late. Since I was on a roll, I was happy, but unhappy that things hadn’t gone my way. It was the last time that I had the opportunity to see the video that my friends made for me before I would actually get a chance to meet up with the people who made it for me. Next week I will be going back to San Diego and meeting up with my friends, so it would have been nice to see it all and then talk to the people about it. But then I guess they shouldn’t have entrusted EK with that responsibility since he flakes on everything.

Anyways, we met up at Hachiko and then went walking around the Shibuya area. I was showing him around since he never really goes there. I’ve been there a few times already so I knew it pretty well. I showed him all the things that people go there to see like Shibuya 109. We got a bit hungry and went to eat a Freshness Burger. It was pretty good, but only served as an appetizer because we were supposed to meet up with another friend of ours. I had sent her an e-mail about where we were and what time to meet, but I presumed that she would be late too, since she’s always late as well. A few hours had passed and we got tired of waiting, so I sent her another e-mail to say that we were going to eat dinner first and then meet up with her later. Just before we walked into the restaurant though, I thought I had seen a teacher that taught at my school. But I didn’t want to go say hi, since on the last day, she had said something to me that left us in an awkward situation and I guess that’s still how it goes.

EK and I went to a nice restaurant. I think it’s a restaurant more than an izakaya, even though it was much like an izakaya. Its specialty was Tofu, so we had ordered many things of Tofu. It wasn’t bad at all. We actually had ordered a lot of food, but we finished it. It was about $30 a person for the meal. Not sure that it was worth that much. I learned a lot about what had been going on in San Diego while I was gone. It doesn’t seem like much has changed. And the circle of friends had grown by one person after losing me. It was an interesting mix of how things worked out and it was an interesting conversation. I did learn a lot about the situation that I would go into when I go back to San Diego.

Even by this time I hadn’t gotten an e-mail back from MTka. I was wondering what was going on, since the e-mail she had sent yesterday said that she was going to come. But at this time I had to go back home. I didn’t want to miss my last train. So it was a disappointing day in many ways, and that really isn’t a good thing that I can learn from, since I saw it coming.