World Cup Japan vs. Australia

I had awakened really late today. I got up around noon, even though I was awake around 8am. I was planning to see the Da Vinci Code today, but that didn’t happen. The friend I was planning to go with got busy at the last minute. I was still planning to go, but never ended up going because of things that just came up. I needed to talk to family today to make sure that I could get my housing things taken care of. That was the most important thing for me to take care of today. I started doing what I needed to do and talked about it with family.

We are thinking about buying a new car since I would need to go back and forth and around LA. But that won’t be months after I go back and after I started school. I would be thinking that it won’t happen till at least next year. I don’t really feel that will be important though since I have done well without a car for two years. But I think in America, you’d have to have a car to get to places and do things.

I was also talking to YSki today too. We were talking about what will happen when I go back to San Diego. She brought up something that I didn’t think she would bring up. We were talking about who we would hang out with, and she brought up the topic of my ex-girlfriend. I was surprised since some things changed and I didn’t realize it. Since San Diego is a really small city, I’m sure that I will have to eventually face up to the fact that we will all run into each other. It’s just what will happen when it does happen. I know that we can all think about it, but we really wouldn’t know until it actually happens. So I guess that really doesn’t matter. I won’t think about it too much and just enjoy my time while I’m in San Diego. It is after all my vacation time.

The next thing that I needed to take care of was my financial aid. I know that it’s about 5 months late, but I think that I’ll still be able to get something, and even if it’s a little, it’s still something. I think that I underestimated how much I would need and I think that since my status has changed, I need to get some help. So I started filling out the FASFA online and realized all this and I didn’t need some of the things that I though I would need. I could take care of everything myself and I didn’t really need the help of my family. So then I started to do some more research and realized that I should have filed my taxes separately from my mother. So now I’m almost 2 months late. But because I’m living abroad, I automatically get a 2-month extension. But that will only be till this Thursday. So I have to step on it and get it taken care of otherwise, I’d be in some tough shit. So now I have a lot of work to do in the next few days. But hopefully that will set my residence status to be a CA resident and everything will be taken care of and I don’t have to pay that much for school.

But at the moment, I’m watching the world cup on TV. It’s from 10pm to midnight, so I’ll be up late tonight watching that. Japan just scored in the 26th minute of the match. It was a nice loopy shot, which was really surprising how it went in. And the captain of the Japan team (Miyamoto) just got a Yellow card. It’s a really good game and both teams are really evenly matched. As it seems, Australia is really bringing on the pressure. There is a lot of pushing going on and and Grella of the Australia team just got a yellow card in the 32nd minute. Takahara just got a yellow card in the 39th minute. The passing of the Japan team is off, they always seem to miss or just not read it. They constantly lose possession of the ball.

In the second half of the game, things just fell apart for the Japan team. I was working on my Taxes and very distracted, but in the last 10 minutes of the game, Australia scored not once, not twice, but three times to seal the win and the upset over the favorite Japan. It was really sad at the end, but for Australia, it must have been amazing since Japan had complete control over the game up until the last 10 minutes. They made some mistakes and paid for it. The first goal by Australia, I believe was the mistake of the goalie, but the other two were pretty solid shots and well deserved. It was a good game to watch from the standpoint that if I weren’t supporting either team, but tomorrow I have to go to work with people in Japan, so it won’t be a pleasant one. Because one, I know they all stayed up till 12:30am or later to watch and mope about it and it will probably carry on since it is pretty determined that they might not make it into the next round since both Croatia and Brazil are even stronger than the Australian team.