Rakugo

I woke up really late today. The alarm sounded at 7am and I didn't wake up till 8am. I was an hour late and I wasn't sure if I would be able to get to work on time. I didn't have to show up today at all if I didn't want to, but there was an event today called Rakugo, where it's a farce made up of a group of 5 people. I arrived at school around 10:20am, and the show was going to start at 10:30am, but I made it there on time, so I was happy about that. I even squeezed in enough time to eat breakfast before I went.

It was mainly two people, but there was a total of five. One of the guys was from the Kansai area, or the west side of Japan and there was one guy who was from the Edo area, or the Tokyo area. The other people were just assistants. They played some music that went with their skit and most of it was just jokes, but I couldn't understand most of them because they were either speaking too fast or used words that I didn't know and understand. The other thing that I couldn't understand was why it was funny. One of the English teachers had to explain that they were using word play and something that I hadn't learned or studied. They were using the different meanings of words that I knew, which made it incredibly hard for me to understand.

Over all, I wasn't very impressed with it, but I did learn how they make comedy skits. While others were laughing, I was studying what made them laugh. They used a lot of onomatopoeias to engage the audience. The one from Kansai picked on some of the audience to participate and knew some of the teachers to pick on too. His gestures were way over the top too. I think he added a very personal touch to his performance and I think that most people felt that he was the better of the two. He took up more time too. The other guy did a skit that lasted way too long and didn't get any laughs for a long time. The thing that saved him was his pantomime. He was dressed in a n orange latex suit, which showed his ... overbearing features. It was a bit nasty, but funny at the same time. Then the kansai guy came back and did his trick with a stick like object and I think that he messed up on purpose only to feed the audience to see how difficult things were for him, but he was able to do it.

After that I stayed around school for a little bit longer. I had lunch and didn't do much after. I was planning to stay to play tennis, but I decided that it would be better for me to go home early and get some of my laundry done since I don't have any clean clothes for tomorrow. So I wanted to take care of that. I also went out to buy some post cards and dinner. It was cold on the way home, which I wasn't used to because it was still daylight out. That was a very strange feeling to come home when there is still light out.

I came home and realized that I couldn't do laundry because the door was locked and no one was home. So I naturally jumped on my computer and did that for a long while. I talked to some people on line that I usually don't talk to. I found out that one of my friends is back in Japan, but will leave soon and that EK will meet with her tonight too. It's a bit suspicious since he didn't tell me about it. But he did end up telling me about it when I called him and asked him what he did yesterday because we were supposed to meet up and he didn't call back or anything. I know that he likes this type of girl and probably likes this one too, but I don't know. I talked to him again and he told me some things about when we would meet next time when he helps me to fix up my laptop for my younger sister. We plan to go eat bear on the Emperor's birthday, well it will be a bear nabe, which is very expensive about $50 a person. It's at a place near Akihabara, which is where we will go to get the computer parts. He also helped me on something today too that I was trying to figure out. I learned that AU had included a CD-ROM in the box that came with the phone. That CD happened to have the software I needed to get the music from my computer onto my cell phone. Which is great since I'll finally be able to use up all the space on my miniSD disk that I paid a lot for in Taiwan. I didn't want that to go to waste, so it was good that EK told me about it. So I'm happy that I'll be able to use that instead of the mp3 player that I have now. I could just give that one away to my younger sister too. So I think that will be good.

I need to replace my lamp too because it's flickering right now and it's very annoying. I need to buy a new one for the other room too so my family will have both working lights.