Athletic Meet

I didn’t take pictures today. I just didn’t feel like I would want to or have to. I’m not sure why, but that’s just the way that it happened to be.

I got to Sendagaya station and the Tokyo Metropolitan Gym at 9am today. I set my alarm for 5am and didn’t really get ready or even leave the house until 2 hours later. I didn’t really do much at the beginning but, just change my clothes.

The whole day, I was just going around looking at the games played by the students. I was an active “cheer” leader, and would get the classes involved with cheering for their classmates. It was fun. We started the day in the Main Arena, but we had to move to the Sub Arena since another event was schedule for that day. I’ve never seen the sub arena before, and didn’t know that it existed, but now I know.

Some of the students weren’t very good at the sports, but some were just simply amazing. They are just very good.

After all the students finished, the teachers went at it with old students. I played basketball this year. It was tough as hell. I never thought that I’d feel like dying, but today I got really close. I was very dehydrated and couldn’t really breathe normal. And then I got a huge as blister on my right foot too. I wasn’t wearing the right type of shoes to be playing basketball. So it was horrible.

After we finished cleaning and all that good stuff, we were going to have dinner at a place called China Quick. But that was still a long while away, so some of the teachers dispersed and I ended up at a café with some of the English teachers I was with. I didn’t want to go with the male teachers since my foot was in pain and I didn’t want to walk on it a lot. I just got an iced chocolate, which wasn’t very bad, but just average in my opinion.

The Chinese food was pretty good. I mean, I’ve had better, but I think it’s a good prelude of what I can expect for when I go to Taiwan next week. I can’t wait to dive into the food. I’m going to get so fat. I didn’t eat as much as I thought that I would eat. I wasn’t feeling very good so decided to take it easy. I was talking to a lot of teachers around me. I thought that was good because I was speaking mostly in Japanese with them. I could get most of what they were saying and asking me, so that was good. I think my Japanese actually has gotten better. I’m not sure how or even why it has since I hardly study any new words or anything. I think I need to make it a habit to at least study just a little. I think that it wouldn’t kill me, but at least I’m more confident in my Japanese ability.

When I got home to look at my foot, I saw that I had lost a good chunk of my skin to the blister. I would say it’s about the size of a quarter in shape and width too.