Iemoto-sensei (my seminar teacher) gave me a very difficult task of translating this paragraph into English. I tried my best, but due to the length of both sentences, I feel that my translation is a little odd. Plus, I also fear that I may have made a mistake or two on grammer. If any of my journal readers who are fluent or near fluent can offer ( Read more... )

When it rains here, it pours. Luckily, there`s been some sunny days within the last couple of weeks. Rainy season here ends around early July, so then it`ll be time for fun in the sun. Ise-shima has been one of my favorite places in Japan so far. I went there with my family, and I also took George there. While I was there, I accumilated tons of ( Read more... )

The NBA has been pretty strict lately with their employees, esp. after the brawl that happend in November of 04. During the playoffs they`ve been handing out suspensions and fines almost on a daily basis. A while back, a forward for the Knicks got suspended for 5 games for going out into the stands during a game to protect his wife. Just the other ( Read more... )

さて、昨日の昼にゼミの終わった後にゼミの生徒とラウンドウンの「Spoーcha」という所で遊びに行った。Spo-chaはもちろんボーリングがあるけど、色々なスポーツと運動の活動を出来るのよ。バッティングケージ、3対3バスケ、卓球、ビリヤードなどあるし、ゲームセンタもあるんだよ。私達は五時間くらいそこで遊んで、料金は千円だけ。かなり安かったやな！バッティングケージで１３０km時速スピードボール奴があって、練習してた時に絶対無理だと考えていた！めっちゃヤバイ！俺のプロ野球の選手になるの夢は夢だけだよ！でも、全部の卓球の試合を勝って、卓球優勝になった ( Read more... )

A friend of mine had some extra tickets and invited me to a Hanshin Tigers (baseball) game, but, naturally the game has been postponed due to crappy Osaka weather. From what she tells me, the seats are pretty nice too, right along the third base line. Well, hopefully I will be re-invited when they cash in the rain check. I have been planning to ( Read more... )

Man, the last couple of day`s weather has been absolutely perfect. Sunny, in the mid 60`s to lower 70`s. I`ve been wearing shorts, and sippin on cokes and beer out in the little lawn of our dorm, or up on the roof, working on my tan a little bit. Yoshi has kinda started up this club for the exchange students. It`s basically the exchange student ( Read more... )

I played baseball at a park with some 12 year olds. Made me glad that I played little league up until 7th grade, cause those kids were good.

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( Another little stupid story: )

My brothers came to visit me in Japan, and they brought me a 24 ounce can of Colt 45 and a 24 ounce can of Schlitz malt liquor. My original plan was to share them with my Sweedish friend, Martin, since I don`t believe you can get either beverages in Scandanavia, let alone in Japan. Well, Shaun comes to Osaka, because Yuki (Mihoko`s son) was ( Read more... )