Basketball game and fishing

The plan originally was to just go fishing with EK, but because of last night’s news, I think that I’ll end up doing both. So I woke up early, but not as early as I thought that I would. I think it was about 8am, but that was a bit late. Since I still hadn’t decided what I wanted to do, I didn’t talk to EK about it either, so then I decided and called up EK and told him my plan. I think that it had altered what was going on for the day.

So I didn’t know whether to wear a suit or just go in casual clothes since it’s a non-school function, but still school related. So I just went in a suit and brought casual clothes too. About half way during my long trip to Sendagaya station, I received an e-mail from a teacher that I had asked and she told me that casual is fine. I think that no one was really expecting me to go, so I didn’t think that it would matter too much.

I arrived a bit late and the game was already in the second quarter. My school was already behind, and they weren’t able to catch up. The other team was really good and it was quite remarkable. They hardly missed a shot that they took. That’s really good. But I felt bad that they lost even though they made it much further in the tournament than anyone expected. They won their first two matches to get to today’s game. They beat the defending champions of the tournament in the first round, and are ranked in the top 8 in the Kanto area, so that’s incredibly good.

After the game, I met with some students and then some teachers gave me a ride to Shinagawa station. I took the Yokosuka line to Yokosuka. It is very far from where I was, but very near to where I live. From my house, I’m guessing it would take about 30 minutes total, but today the trip took about 2 hours. So I think I slept on the train, I’m pretty sure I did, but not sure.

Then I hung around the train station for a little bit, bought lunch and ate it. I went into a little museum since it was free; it was the Verny Museum of a man named Verny who visited the area from France. I wasn’t able to pinpoint what he did that was so significant that they would make a museum for him, but there was one and a park outside it too. Then EK came to pick me up at the station, we drove for about 5 minutes to get some lunch for everyone and then go fishing.

The weather was absolutely beautiful today. It wasn’t too hot or too cold near the sea, so it was perfect to be out there. But else where in Japan, it was too damn hot. The temperature reached up to 30 degrees today, which is really hot with the humidity. But where at the location we were at, it was very nice.

We were fishing for about 7 hours from 2-9pm. It actually didn’t seem that long. I only caught one fish, that died in the process and that was during the first 15 minutes that I was there. All the other times, I was just watching and losing the weights for the fishing pole. During the day I had lost two of them, both times because the fishing line was weak and broke during the cast. But that wasn’t as bad as EK who lost three. He did catch more fish at the very end. It was anchovy time and they all flocked in by the hundreds so everyone was enjoying good catches.

After we decided to leave, we went to get some dinner at a place near my house. It was a keiten-zushi, which is one of those places where they serve Sushi on a conveyor belt that goes round and round and you can pick up the ones that you wanted to eat. The sad part was that I had eaten half of the total amount. Well almost about half.