Went to Musashi Urawa

Today the plan was just to meet up with some friends in Saitama. This is two prefectures away, but not really incredibly too far. I like to use the analogy of Washington D.C. where you could be in 4 different states within a few hours. That’s how this is. The trip to get there wasn’t too bad and in fact I got there incredibly early. Much earlier than I expected and faster than any of the other times I’ve gone previously. Since I arrived early, I took a look around the station and the department stores there. I found an electronics store that I decided I wanted to go into. I’ve never heard of it before, but I figured that I could look at some of the prices of the mp3 players and other gadgets that I’ve wanted to buy. I found out that this store sells things for an overly incredible price. I had received a call from my friends who arrived at the station and asked me where I was, so I headed back to the store.

I met them by surprise since I took a different way to get to the station. They were waiting in the department store. I was happy to see them; it had been a long time since the last time we’ve all talked together. I really had a feeling a joy to see them. It’s hard to describe, but it’s like the feeling of seeing someone you haven’t seen in a long time. Yes, it was a great feeling, but we were left there waiting for the last member of our party to arrive. The teacher we were meeting wasn’t going to get there till 5pm, and we all met around 4:45pm. Everyone was early, which was weird, actually they were a little late, but it was still early. We went downstairs together and met up with their Math teacher from High School. I don’t know if that’s a weird feeling or not, but to having dinner with your former Math teacher. I can’t say that I’ve ever had that happen to me before. We hadn’t decided what place we wanted to go to for dinner, but we went to Jonathon’s. It was the same place that we (me and the YSensei) met for the first time. I learned a lot about the girls. The one sitting next to me has the same likes and dislikes that I have, which is a very strange thing, since I have only started to dislike things since I moved to Japan. I thought that was pretty cool, and learned that she worked at the city hall. Also nice. Her friend will work at a pet shop in the Chiba prefecture. She will move to there next month to begin work. I hope she has fun since there isn’t much to do out there. But I think it’s something that she will like since she accepted it. Dinner wasn’t so bad, and actually I was shocked when the person sitting next to me ordered something that I like to order from Jonathon’s, but I ordered something different. I had a tempura shrimp and something else.

While we were having dinner someone recognized me out of nowhere. It was the strangest feeling ever. Disney had it right when they said that it’s a small world after all. I ran into something that I had gone to college with, in fact she was sitting behind me the whole time while we were eating dinner. But it was crazy, we took the same business class at Grossmont and she remembered me, even though we never talked at Grossmont. I was shocked. It was incredible that she talked to me though. This really is a small world. She had only lived like 5 minutes from the restaurant and it was really random that we would eat dinner there and since it’s over 2 hours away from my house in Yokohama. I mean it really is random since there are many other places to eat and do and she ate there. What’s random is that I was at her house but didn’t know it, since I knew her roommate well. We had even worked together.

If I’m keeping count, then I should add this one to the list. People that I’ve ran into randomly that I know, 5.

After dinner, we left to go back to the station. YSensei just dropped us off. He wanted to meet again soon since it’s been a long time since we all last met. The girls stuck around afterwards to chit-chat, and I hopped on a train to go back home. That was the evening, very eventful and exciting. I was happy and enjoyed it. It’s good to see old friends.