still getting to know the locals and how to play soccer

this weekend was quite eventful! after finishing work on friday, i invited my JTE (Japanese Teacher of English), Tamura sensei to come have a few drinks after she finished up. but as per usual shes a workaholic and rings me up while im at the bar chatting to the locals waiting for her, that she cant make it. IT WAS 8:30 ON A FRIDAY NIGHT AND SHE WAS STILL WORKING!! what the....?!? anyways...... didnt let it get me down so continued chatting to the locals. had some drunk old lady ask me a bunch of stupid questions about where im from and then once the bar closed (at 10), she dragged me to the local pachinko parlour where i quickly escaped to the local karaoke bar, Nobara. There i met some people from the yakuba where many drinks were had. later, the local hanshin tigers fan club came in to celebrate the tigers winning the SE League championship. being the big hashin tigers fan i am, i joined in with them and we drank and drank and sang the club theme song to death many times! some old guy, who id only met maybe once, gave me his hanshin tigers whackers (umm....the best way to describe them is that they look like tenpins and at the games u whack them together when u support ur team, sorta like clapping but it makes a bigger noise). they are now hanging up proudly in my room. anyways got back from that late at night, quite pissed and staggered home and passed out!

The next morning got up and called Erinn to see what she was doing during the day before she came up to mine to knock back a few. She wasnt doin anythin so we went to the Ryugado Caves and for a drive around. Got back in the evening, had a few drinks and waited for Yarun and Julianna to come. Watched some TV, then headed to EMU (no not the bird), ate various food off the menu, had some beers and cockktails then once we had warmed up into it, headed to Nobara for some karaoke! had a classic time! It was Erinns first time to karaoke so i think shes now well on her way to being a karaoke legend! At some stage someone tied a rubber band to the middle of my frindge of my hair and called me a samurai, then next thing u know there was another few guys with the middle part of their hair tied up, singing along with us. i think it has been a long time since my village has had four people in it but they were very nice to us, they even sang along and danced with us as well. This all went on till about 3am coz i had to get some sleep because i had to wake up and leave at about 7 for the soccer tournament in kochi city and pick up Dom from Noichi on the way.

Woke up right on 7, did a quick change to get ready, then left. got about 15 mins away from where i left when i noticed i had forgotten my shoes, drove back and hooned to pick up Dom and go in to the city! got to where we were told to go, only to realise that they had given us the wrong directions. so some of the other Jets and i drove around for ages trying to find this place......anyways finally got there......late as, changed and tried my best to play, hungover as anything! i almost died playing but wasnt the only player on my team to be hungover thankfully. surpisingly enough we won the tournament and went on to a BBQ before driving home and chilling out at home.