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So I have been lazy on the blogging so I have to catch up a little here. Lets see... last week my wife and I went out for lunch down by the beach. It was pretty nice, the food was really good. The price wasn't too bad either, soup, salad, meal and desert for $15. The view was really nice and we could even see surfers in the water. Despite the way it may look its actually kind of cold here, not like back home but you need a jacket.

On the weekend I had the year end party with my classmates. There was a little issue with it though. So I got to the place that we had said we were meeting and no one was there. I waited for about 30 minutes and still no one showed up, I started to think this was the old 9th green at 9 trick (not really but it sounds good). I had to ask where a pay phone was so that I could try to call the guy that organized it. Luckily there was a pay phone in the store across the street (pay phones are rare now a days). So I called the guy and mind you he doesn't speak English so that was interesting, but I said "Where are you? Are we doing this today?" He said yes "where are you?". I told him I was at the meeting place and he asked why. At this point the pay phone time expired so I had to call back but it was $1 every time I called so I really didn't want to have to keep calling. He asked why I was there now and I said because that was the time we said anyway can you come get me. He said yea and that I should wait at the first place again.

So I went back and was waiting and waiting and about 25 minutes went by. I was thinking just to leave, maybe there was a miscommunication and he wasn't coming he had said it was only 10 minutes away. I walked outside and likely going to leave to look for some place to eat when they pulled into the parking lot.

What happened? I think I was right in all this but I'll explain, again this was all communicated in Japanese. So when we decided to meet I was told the place and the time, the time was 10:20 a real strange time if you ask me. The problem was that to say 10:20 in Japanese its juu ji ni juu pun, ji shows the hour and pun or fun shows the minute but when he told me he said juu ni juu which is just 10 20 makes sense right. Well the problem is I heard juu ni ji which is 12, I asked him again 12? this time he heard juu instead of ji so he though I said 10 20 juu ni juu so he said yes. I asked him a few more times and he said yes again confusing what I was saying ( I was saying it right but he was hearing it wrong). To further re enforce the 12 meeting time he wrote down the restaurant name and the time to be there for the people going directly there which was 1pm. If we are eating at 1pm then meeting at 12 makes sense right.

Anyway after all that we got to the place and everyone else was there one of the teachers came, 2 Chinese girls, 1 girl from papua new guinea (who speaks English), 1 french guy (who knows some English) and the Korean guy who organized it. It was a good time and after about 3 hours we left and went to a karaoke.

 I don't really like karaoke but everyone wanted to go, once we got there I hung out but didn't sing despite heavy peer pressure but luckily one of the girls also didn't want to sing so we were like a team. At one point the teacher told one of the girls to get up and then started dancing with her it was really funny there were spins and dips the whole thing it was just really funny.

After I left I went to the city and bought some games cuz thats what I do. I got Pokemon Red for the Gameboy and a few SFC games. Gunforce which I knew nothing about and kind of wish I didn't get ( cuz it was $5) but took a chance on it, Darius Twin ($2.50) and Contra 3 ($9.50). Contra 3 was kind of expensive but its a good game.

I also picked up Donkey Kong Country 3 which I already had but this one was in really good shape and I figured I would just sell the other one. Finally I picked up Super Ghost and Ghouls another game I had but again this was to sell and it was only $1.