Sunday, November 27, 2005
lesson 29: new, new, news.
what a busy few days i hav had!
i will try and tell it in pictures as much as words because i hav lots of piccys and not many words.
so it begins...
on saturday i went ova to the city and met up wit my friend, Claire (thats her with ure's truly on the left), and we bummed around the city for a while, had a coffee and a chat, then strutted off 2 c Nagoya Castle.
neither of us had been there yet, even though we had both been around Nagoya for about 5 months.
we decided it was about time we took in some traditional culture rather than just bars and clubs!
so here is the first picture of us in the park around the castle, it was really beautiful because the leaves were really great colours as it is kinda still autumn here, different shades of red, brown, green and orange.
i lik this picture but it makes my right ear look quite deformed. check it out! it looks huge! haha. john merrick calling sonofsam, com in sonofsam! haha.
ok, so we trekked around the castle and for all the 'tradition' we find out that the original castle was destroyed completely in the war by the yanks so this is a re-build...from 1959! but neva the less, it did look really cool.
then we go and get som food at an izaka-ya, which is lik a Japanese pub, cheap food and drink and the lik. as we entered the establishment i got a bit confused with the door and i managed to walk into it b4 it had opned fully crunchin my skull between bone and doorframe. ouch! it made my teeth hurt!
was hopin 4 a bit of a shiner but only got a bit of a lump. that went down quickly 2 cos the beer glasses were really cold and i used it to soothe my throbbin 4heed!!! haha! the food was good and we chowed down and chatted.
then we went to another bar 4 another beer and headed home as i was crashin at Claire's cos we were goin to c the local footy team, Nagoya Grampus Eight, today.
the mornins and the nights r really cold at the moment, so crashin on Claire's floor wasnt the best nights sleep i hav ever had, and as it was really cold i slept in all my clothes, which meant that when i woke up this mornin my tshirt wasnt in the
greatest state of cleanliness! (i 4got 2 pack a spare) it seems that trekkin around all day, hittin restaurants and bars and then sleepin in the bad boy meant that i was a little stinky boy.
this brings me nicely onto the next piccy.
because of the state of my tshirt i had asked Claire if she had a spare tshirt i could borrow 4 the day...clearly that was a bad idea as this was the best she could com up with.
IT JUST WOULDNT WORK! so the stinky tshirt got a quick airin and then put back on.
we went to c the footy last term and i missed both goals of the game cos i was gettin beers. typical! so there are only a couple of games left this season and we decided we would try 1 more time (Nagoya Grampus is were now-Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and house-wives-favourite, mr-nice-guy and 'crisp don' Gary Lineker used to earn an honest crust).
it was quite a dull 1-0 loss to Nagoya, but we were in the home fans end and we were able to join in on some of the songs, well, make noise at least : ) but the atmosphere was pretty good even tho the quality of the match was lackin a little bit.
it was quite funny tho cos the fans neva seem to get on the backs of thier players or their team. even if their team gets absolutely drubbed in a humiliatin drubbin. they neva 'boo' their own players. unlik us lot of course who giv stick to any1
that makes a mistake, but i guess if i was gettin paid £100, 000 A WEEK and made mistakes i would expect a little criticism!!!!!so this picture is of the mad buggers at the football. megaphones, chantin, flags, scarves and a whole lot of passion! brilliant!
so, i am now enterin the final run-in, the last 10 lessons...booohoo! im well gonna miss my little buggers. oh well, better make the most of my last few weeks in this fair country and evade the authorities for a little time longer!! haha!
just kiddin mum!
right, sammy ova but not out...just yet.
# posted by sonofsam @ 2:40 AM 
