JGz comes to my house

Today, I was planning to meet up with a friend of mine from the San Diego- Yokohama sister city exchange. One of the people that came with me to Yokohama back in 2003 is coming and other members during that time from the Yokohama side invited me to have dinner with them.

It turns out that they couldn’t get a hold of him, and I got a call from him today. He asked me if he could stay at my place, which I allowed him to. I probably shouldn’t have since I need to get some things done too.

So I met up with him at Totsuka station, we came back to my house and he dropped off his stuff.
Then we met up with TSrai and we had dinner at an Izakaya. It was nice to see her tonight, but she was acting all strange with JGz. It made me sort of sick… for many reasons. She didn’t seem like herself and was friendlier towards him than I have seen her with anyone else. She was all giving him hugs and a massage and everything. It was very interesting. I mean tomorrow night, JGz will stay at her house and her mother will make him Tempura since the place that we went to didn’t have it and he wanted it. I was a bit shocked really. It makes me look at her in a different way.

Then we walked around so he could get more money, and went to a Vodafone place so he could look at the cell phones that he wants. He is looking into pre-paid cell phones.

Then we walked around some more before we came back to my host mother’s house because they were having a party. A lot of people were there, but most of them were leaving when we walked in. I haven’t seen some of them for a very long time. I’m talking like years. It was nice to see them, since I think some of their daughters are pretty, friendly. I had a little dinner since we just came back.

I met MTki’s father for the first time. But the weird part about it was that he was giving me and JGz a lecture about something dealing with America and Americans being the hegemonic. It was very interesting. I was listening and realized that he was scolding me and JGz for just being Americans and asking me why I’m in Japan and can’t speak perfect Japanese. I thought it was interesting, but only a one sided view. I wasn’t offended because, honestly it isn’t a big deal to me. But for JGz, he was a little offended and probably would have said something if he could have done so in Japanese. I’m glad that he couldn’t. It was just better to leave it like that.

Overall, it was an interesting day. I didn’t get any of the work that I had planned to do today or even start on it. That really made me upset. I wished I would have had a little bit longer warning of him coming so I could have prepared. But I think that it wasn’t on me and I probably won’t let him stay another night. I need to plan my trip to Hong Kong. I’m really motivated to go and I can’t let any more things get in the way.