senshuumatsu wa...
omoshirokatta desu.
After waking up at 4:00 and meeting an agry sensei at the airport for being 30mins late, the weekend ended up OK.
The Sakura Matsuri was 'aight. There weren't really any... sakura. In the morning our team + sensei hauled our asses to the mall and were rather disappointed at the lack of foliage. After mulling about and wathing the parade for a bit (and eating some delicious steamed buns, grilled tako, and ramen) I got on the metro (I wish with all my heart we had a transit system like the metro... I don't understand why MARTA is more expensive than the metro either) and went back to the hotel to get ready to see Die-chan. Sensei didn't let me take a shower earlier ;-; Die-chan arrived and we had a ball being goofs. I explored a little more of DC with her and just had a good time. Die's got a few pics of us, they are cute so I'll have to get them from her. The ones I took of us turned out kinda crappy.
The next day was JapanBowl.
I am a fucking idiot.
M = Moderator
N = Me
I = Ian
M: 田中さんはクリスマスに生まれました。お誕生日は何時ですか？
N: (with confidence) 12月31日^__^
M: .... I'm sorry, that is incorrect.
N: Huh??....... OMFG (holds head).
I said Christmas was December 31st.
M: Translate the following into Japanese: I had a Japanese quiz yesterday. It was not hard. I have a math quiz every week.
N: 昨日、日本語のクイズがありました。むずかしかった。毎週、数学のテストがありま
す。
I said the quiz was hard, not was not hard. It's not that I don't know how to say was not hard, I just fucked up.
M: Please calculate the answer and answer in Japanese: 四百+三百五十-五百
I: 二百十です。
Yeah that was sanbyakuGOjuu buddy. Ian was never good at math... I woulda answered but he rang the bell before me.
If we hadn't have made these dumbass mistakes, we woulda had 120 points, putting us in first. 130 if we knew there were 2 meanings for pecha pecha. Man if we had gotten 130 we would have dominated everyone like we did in the regionals, striking fear into the hearts of many. Instead we made 95 and ended up 7th of 17. Not bad, but man.... we so shoulda won. I knew pretty much all the answers in the final round. Arg. Well I think I could probably dominate all the level 2 people there regardless.
Our scorekeeper was cute.
After the bowl we went to the Japanese embassy. There are 2 and we went to the newer one because Musashi Maru was there and he needed special treatment. Oh God, the food. The desserts. The garden. Truely a marvelous place.
After thet, met some students from Colorado and another state or two and hung out n what not. This one Chinese girl was very mysterious. I liked her.
On the plane back there were about 945873945385 salaryman type people. One was in front of me, behind me, and across the isle from me. The one across the isle decided that it would be ok to look at a porno mag. There were a lot of half naked ladies, and on one page was this kinda buff lookin Japanese dude wearing this:
and I kid you not. I wanted to tell him すみません、その雑誌を見たくない。しめてください。 But I always get "zasshi" and "shashin" mixed up, so I didn't want to sound stupid.
Somehow I was taken home in a limo.
Pics:
-The awesome Metro.
-I'll bet it does.
-I've never seen a homeless dude with more stuff.
-Note how many people are asleep.
-His face makes it better than it already is.
-The dessert room
-Garden at embassy
-Cute guys with a balloon.
-My true passion.jpg
-Die gives this statue a thumbs up
all pics are here
Memorable quotes:
"It's tea bag time!"
"Tsuchi-cha."
"I'm in the military so don't tell anyone I had sex with a man."
"I don't like to talk about my sex life."
"Do you HAVE a sex life?"
"Ahh, finally sensei can drink."
After waking up at 4:00 and meeting an agry sensei at the airport for being 30mins late, the weekend ended up OK.
The Sakura Matsuri was 'aight. There weren't really any... sakura. In the morning our team + sensei hauled our asses to the mall and were rather disappointed at the lack of foliage. After mulling about and wathing the parade for a bit (and eating some delicious steamed buns, grilled tako, and ramen) I got on the metro (I wish with all my heart we had a transit system like the metro... I don't understand why MARTA is more expensive than the metro either) and went back to the hotel to get ready to see Die-chan. Sensei didn't let me take a shower earlier ;-; Die-chan arrived and we had a ball being goofs. I explored a little more of DC with her and just had a good time. Die's got a few pics of us, they are cute so I'll have to get them from her. The ones I took of us turned out kinda crappy.
The next day was JapanBowl.
I am a fucking idiot.
M = Moderator
N = Me
I = Ian
M: 田中さんはクリスマスに生まれました。お誕生日は何時ですか？
N: (with confidence) 12月31日^__^
M: .... I'm sorry, that is incorrect.
N: Huh??....... OMFG (holds head).
I said Christmas was December 31st.
M: Translate the following into Japanese: I had a Japanese quiz yesterday. It was not hard. I have a math quiz every week.
N: 昨日、日本語のクイズがありました。むずかしかった。毎週、数学のテストがありま
す。
I said the quiz was hard, not was not hard. It's not that I don't know how to say was not hard, I just fucked up.
M: Please calculate the answer and answer in Japanese: 四百+三百五十-五百
I: 二百十です。
Yeah that was sanbyakuGOjuu buddy. Ian was never good at math... I woulda answered but he rang the bell before me.
If we hadn't have made these dumbass mistakes, we woulda had 120 points, putting us in first. 130 if we knew there were 2 meanings for pecha pecha. Man if we had gotten 130 we would have dominated everyone like we did in the regionals, striking fear into the hearts of many. Instead we made 95 and ended up 7th of 17. Not bad, but man.... we so shoulda won. I knew pretty much all the answers in the final round. Arg. Well I think I could probably dominate all the level 2 people there regardless.
Our scorekeeper was cute.
After the bowl we went to the Japanese embassy. There are 2 and we went to the newer one because Musashi Maru was there and he needed special treatment. Oh God, the food. The desserts. The garden. Truely a marvelous place.
After thet, met some students from Colorado and another state or two and hung out n what not. This one Chinese girl was very mysterious. I liked her.
On the plane back there were about 945873945385 salaryman type people. One was in front of me, behind me, and across the isle from me. The one across the isle decided that it would be ok to look at a porno mag. There were a lot of half naked ladies, and on one page was this kinda buff lookin Japanese dude wearing this:
and I kid you not. I wanted to tell him すみません、その雑誌を見たくない。しめてください。 But I always get "zasshi" and "shashin" mixed up, so I didn't want to sound stupid.
Somehow I was taken home in a limo.
Pics:
-The awesome Metro.
-I'll bet it does.
-I've never seen a homeless dude with more stuff.
-Note how many people are asleep.
-His face makes it better than it already is.
-The dessert room
-Garden at embassy
-Cute guys with a balloon.
-My true passion.jpg
-Die gives this statue a thumbs up
all pics are here
Memorable quotes:
"It's tea bag time!"
"Tsuchi-cha."
"I'm in the military so don't tell anyone I had sex with a man."
"I don't like to talk about my sex life."
"Do you HAVE a sex life?"
"Ahh, finally sensei can drink."