SDYSCS and SDYSCAA

I have three appointments today with members of both groups. It will be an interesting day and I’m not sure how things will turn out, but I’m sure that I will do my best to get the message across. It will be good to get back into the swing of things, but I’ll see how things go. I had also scheduled this day to be one with family, but things in Japan had altered today’s plan. Instead of taking care of my shit, I had to take care of other peoples’ shit. That seems to be common in San Diego, partly a reason why I’m a bit bitter for coming back. I really never get enough time to focus on the things I want to take care of, and always have other people to worry about. You can tell I’m a bit pissed about it. I mean it’s nice to see these people and all don’t get my wrong, it’s not like I hate these people. But I would have like to spend more time doing the things that I wanted to do since my trip is so short.

My breakfast appointment was with the President of the SDYSCS. I first went to her house and then we talked for a little bit. It was nice to walk into her house again. Since she does have an amazing view of San Diego and it’s such a traditional and modern house all wrapped up into one. It really was nice. The conversation that we had was something revolutionary for me too. I really learned a lot and was impressed by many things that I guess I hadn’t realized before. Then we went to Ichiro restaurant to continue our conversation. After that she took me to Ranch 99 to get some stuff that she needed to prepare for a party the next night for some arena football players that were from Yokohama. This only happened because my lunch appointment had cancelled on me this morning. But after buying all the stuff and going shopping, she took me back to her house. It was nice to ride in her brand new car too. It was cool.

My lunch appointment was cancelled because he caught a cold. I was going to meet with the Vice President of Kyocera International human resources department. I think that was a shame to have missed this appointment. I think that there were many things to explain and talk about. I needed to learn what was going on in the society on this side so I could help the association on the other side and get things going again.

My dinner appointment was with the SDYSCAA. At first we were going to go to Hooters, but I didn’t really feel comfortable with that. Since I was meeting the members of the association for the first time and I didn’t want them to have that kind of impression of me on our first meeting. So we switched to go to T.G.I. Fridays. They were nice to me even though I think there were alternative motives going on. I know that there was a lot of tension, but not really tension. I was being watched close under a microscope I felt like. I know that there were some other people, who happen to want to learn more about me than just knowing me. I know it’s hard to explain since I know that one person who reads this will know that I’m talking about this matter. It’s a very delicate situation and I came at an awkward time to just mess things up for people. I seem to be pretty good at doing that. It was volatile without really being volatile. After we had dinner there, we went to Tapioca Express to get some drinks and just hang out for a little bit. I ran into some friends while I was there. They hadn’t known that I had moved to Japan since I haven’t seen them in a long time they just didn’t know. It was nice way to end the evening and it wasn’t as tiring as I thought, although I know that I didn’t get much sleep during these past few days. I know that I wasn’t going to be able to get a good night’s rest tonight either.