Getting a Burberry suit

So I didn’t have much of a plan for the morning and early afternoon. I still am trying to get used to getting up in the morning to get my body used to getting up earlier. I think that it has been working recently. I’m still sleepy for a little bit, but it’s getting better. The only thing that I had planned today was to go to school around 3pm. The headmaster of the school is going to take the male teachers shopping for a new suit.

But before that, I saw some TV and had lunch, which wasn’t much. It was an instant ramen dish, something that isn’t too healthy either. I also talked to my mom and sisters for only a little bit. It was the strangest thing, since I was only talking to them for about 15 minutes. The weather changed drastically. It was all nice without a cloud in the sky and the temperature was warm. It was much like San Diego’s weather. But then in a matter of minutes, the temperature dropped about 10 degrees Celsius and it started raining with thunder and lightning. I was like, what the hell is going on. I had to get ready in a suit to go to school, so I was all confused as to what to wear. But when I was changing, the weather changed again. It was so weird because it was all nice and sunny again. It was nice and very warm even. It was good because I could walk to the station instead of taking the bus. It really felt like spring outside, so that was good.

Since I left late, I thought it would be late to get to school, but I actually arrived on time. I wanted to get to school at 3pm, and I did. I kind of figured that we really wouldn’t leave school at that time, but at least if we did, I would be ready. So I was just cleaning up my desk for a little bit throwing things out that are old and nasty. I have a lot of clutter in the drawers in my desk, so I needed to clear that up. That was really quick though and I found myself with nothing to do again. I was talking to some teachers for a little bit until I decided to start studying Japanese again. It was horrible. I had forgotten a lot of what I learned at Grossmont. That’s horrible since it is a foundation that I had to build on, but I think overall my Japanese has improved, but still it is horrible. I’m all messed up with my Japanese grammar and vocabulary. I really need to find a way to improve a lot. It will be a waste to learn all this Japanese and not be able to use it later.

We left school around 5pm and we walked to the station, which was a surprise for me. We took the train from Toritsu-daigaku to Shibuya and changed to the Ginza line to Mitsukoshimae. That’s where we would end up. We got to Mitsukoshi and then took the elevator up to the “tailoring” floor. It was a pretty neat experience for me since I have never had a custom tailor made suit before, let alone one that is a Burberry suit or one that would cost my boss about $1,300. I learned that my left arm is about 0.5 cm longer than my right arm. The person was having trouble measuring me because the language he used was something I didn’t understand and haven’t learned. I was getting help translating from a Science teacher, Mr. Honda. I took the longest of all the teachers since I was new and they didn’t have any information for me so they had to take all the measurements. All of the other teachers have had suits made for them before, so it was just a simple matter of just checking to see if they stayed the same, which most of them were.

We also got custom made shirts too. That was pretty cool, I think. That also took a little bit of time to get measured too and to choose a color and logo and letters and stuff. It was pretty neat to have one made like that. But I think that in the future, I will do things like that too. It is very good to see how the headmaster treats his teachers. It’s a good custom to see. It really motivates me to work harder and to appreciate the things that I have had here in Japan. It has become a really unbelievable experience.

After we all got fitted for our suits, we had dinner at a nice high-class Chinese food restaurant. The restaurant’s specialty was Shark’s fin. I must say that the food was very delicious and some of the best Chinese food that I have ever had. It was a full course and I started to think that I might not fit the suit that I just got because I was stuffed like a turkey. But damn, that food was delicious. The Shark’s fin was especially good. The mango pudding at the end was also pretty good. We had crab and other foods too like wonton soup. But the most delicious food was the Shark’s fin soup, which I found out costs \4200. The whole meal per person was like \20,000. There were 12 male teachers, plus the accountant and the headmaster and his secretary. So it got pretty expensive, but I would have never had that experience in the states. I’ve been treated to things, but never to this level. I think the headmaster spent more tonight than I make a year working at the school, which is strange to think about it. We left the store around 10pm so I got home around midnight. It really is a night that I won’t soon forget. It’s just crazy to be honest with you.