Juggling

So this weekend has been pretty good, but for almost all intensive purposes, I did nothing on Friday or Saturday. Friday we didn't have class so I slept in, rather, I stayed up to 8 AM from the night before for no reason then went to bed and woke up around 2:00. I did eat breakfast though before going to bed, haha. Saturday it rained all day so I just went out to get food and came back.

Oh, which reminds me, Thursday was pretty interesting / fun / bad / fun, in pretty much that order. Interesting and fun first, Japanese class. We met with Japanese students and talked about things, then randomly got paired with a Japanese student to be Email Partners with. I got paired with a girl whose name is Kimmie, she's someone's E-Pal [IES Japanese Friend and Assistant, that I do not actually have] as well. She's really nice, understands a little English, has a part time job at Disney, and is great at helping me with Japanese. Anyway, we had to record a conversation for 40 minutes, I'm not sure why, probably to look back on and see how bad I suck at Japanese. Well, that class was fun, I did accidentally say I was afraid of Shrimp though when I meant to say Snakes. The words are "ebi" and "hebi" respectively, and they sound quite alike, haha. She laughed at me -_-;;

The bad part comes afterwards. Well, I guess it's not right afterwards. Two people from my next class and I ate lunch at a Gyuudon, or beef and rice bowl, place, that was really good. We thought we had enough time to do that and still casually go to the station to meet at Nihombashi for the field trip at 2:00. Well, we didn't. We ended up getting there at like, 2:50 because of train waits and everything, so that was real good in a sarcastic manner. The actual tour that I made was good though, and you can see it in this album! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2077503&id=3708410&l=b5a9ef0003

Yeah, so that was good. The last part being fun refers to Tennis Club, it was fun. =P Simple as that. This kid from my Japanese class now goes with me to it, he's pretty good as well.

So back to today! At Yoyogi Park a couple weeks ago there were people there with Poi and it looked really cool so I decided I was going to get some, along with a Devil Stick. For those of you not in the know, these are both performance arts like juggling. You can see them in these videos :

Poi : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-2VAb4wQqo
Devil Stick : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5OxpAhzsJA

Just throwin' it out there, I've never done either before so I am pretty bad at both of them. I was poi-ing on the roof here a bit earlier in the dark, that was fun, and I think the videos of what you can do with them are crazy. I actually bought 2 different kinds of Poi and a Devil Stick at a store called Naranja's in Itabashi, 50 minutes west of where I live. It was a nice train ride over and it wasn't too hard to find. However, it was supposed to be closed today, I just wanted to scout out the area and then head to a park, so I didn't have that much money on me at the time, so when I found out that it was open I had to find a 7-11 as that's the only place really that accepts American Issued Visa cards of my kind. I actually couldn't find one so I took a train ride over to Ikebukuro to look there. It took a bit, but I found one. Then I went back.

Naranja's is such a cool store. Like, the customer area is really small, but they have all their stock [or at least most of it] out to try out and to go outside the store and use. They aren't in the road, they're tucked back, so no one walks by the storefront. All the stuff in that area of the store is used, but they have an abnormally large warehouse type thing in the back. Maybe they share it with another company or something, that much juggling stuff would be ridiculous. They also do other flair items like Contact Juggling and Bar Accesories and whatnot. Anyway, I bought a goldenrod and red sock poi, a red and white tail poi, and a red trigon dube devil stick.

I then remembered I hadn't eaten anything in a long time, so I went back to Baraki Nakayama and gathered a small group of people from my dorm to go get some curry at Coco's. I got a level 7, it was good, and pretty spicy, although admittedly not too hot to enjoy. 10 still worries me though, haha. It was actually the only thing I've eaten all day and am rather hungry now, but alas I should not go out to get a snack at 12:30 when breakfast is in 7 hours. What I should do is go to bed now. So that is what I shall do.

Thanks for reading! More updates later sometime!