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Work

2:50pm JST Saturday 17 April 2004

Fun. Three students selected my lessons today, for a total of four lessons. My last two lessons will be with the same student. Yasuko said that she enjoyed my lesson most of the instructors she had taken; and I remembered we had done many roleplays with her introducing me to Mr Kleenex. That's one interesting thing about all man to man lessons. Role plays requiring three people allow us to talk to boxes of kleenex and the like. Fun stuff.

This time I called her and she transferred my call to Mr Plant, or took messages for Mr Plant. She did well with learning several variants of the conversation.

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Had Hiromi for my last two lessons. She said she has selected lessons with me for the next several days. Cool. I'm glad that my teaching style is enjoyed by at least a couple students.

miki

10:10pm JST Saturday 17 April 2004

KG Miki texted me tonight; she was in Motosumiyoshi at her new job! Wow! I was heading out to Carla's thingie so I met Miki at her work to say HI and plan a movie with her next month. Damn - 3 weeks in advance is pretty far for a movie, it seems.

I'm reallly excited for Miki having a new job; she wasn't enjoying her previous job (her boss, actually) so she had to quit. She's only working one day a week so far in this one, but hey it's a start.

overnight at ageHa

9:13pm JST Saturday 17 April 2004

Messages between me and Carla:

Hey Miss C
is there a party t
onight?

YA..HEY DUDE!WE R 
GO'N TO AGEHA!SHIN
 KIBA STATION(NEAR
 DISNEY)!COVERIS 3
000!DON'T KNOW MEE
T TIME OR PLACE YE
T!WILL 411 YA LATE
R

YOWza!  are you go
ing all night?  is
 it a club like C
&J's byebyeparty w
as?

CLUB IS BETTER!YA 
ALL NITE DEAL!MAY
BE 20-25 PEOPLE G
O'N!

OK GUYS..DO UR BES
T TODAY! ONLY 16HR
S UNTIL GROUP HUGS
&BALLOON SURF'
N BEGINS!

Whats da dress cod
e?Should I bring a
nything?

BRING ID!NO REAL D
RESS CODE!ANYTH'N 
GOES!

OK EVERYONE!MEET T
IME IS 1030 YOKOHA
MA STATION KQ EXIT
!  NO BLACKTIME!BR
ING ID!HA HA!BALLO
ON TIME NE!

10:12pm

me to Carla:

I AM COUNTIN ON YO
U BEING LATE CUZ I
 WILL BE 5 MINS LA
TE

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I'm wearing my contacts tonight so I can throw down when I dance. Whatever throw down means; I'm gonna do it. And sweat. Oh yes; don't even worry about that.

6:29am JST Sunday 18 April 2004

Fun night.

Four different dance floors (plus a big ramen tent), with one dance floor outside by a pool, with no barrier between the pool and the people dancing. No splasualties, though.

Ali and I ventured around the place a bit, checking out the hip hop dance floor, at which the DJ played what nearly could have been one of Ali's CDs that he plays at Nova. Except, Ali points out, one of the songs was performed by a different artist.

There was a woman there wearing a cat-like ball mask. Another was wearing a white leather outfit that was like a Jetsons swimsuit.

Back to the big dance floor, where there was more room for me to gyrate wildly. I developed a new dance called The Convict, where I keep my ankles and wrists "locked" together. Another dance called oh man I forgot what it even looked like so I can't think of a name for it.

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9:30am JST Monday 19 April 2004

Also that night/next morning:

• After around 3:30am, I was pretty tired and took a nap on the stairs, sitting sideways, with my back against the columns of the hand rail. Not the most comfortable bed, but I definitely slept.

• During the night, exploring such a big area, I found us using cell phones for herding purposes like Douglas Adams described. This helped me feel young.

• As we were leaving, and I went to the coatroom to get my backpack, this really tall, fit, beautifully blonde braided ponytail woman got her things as well. I was like, ??? Do I know her or just wish I knew her??? cause she looked familiar, but maybe only because she reminded me of Sally. I asked Morag the exact question as posed in my brain and she's like, "you know her; she's with our group," and I was like, woohoo! and are you sure; I think I'd remember if I had met her tonight

  so as we were all walking back, I was like, "what's yer name again?" "Kelly."

  and it turns out I had not previously met her. On the train I found out that She's from Montreal, and has been here 5 months, but(!) will leave in 2 weeks. She liked the dance area by the pool best. She came to Japan right out of university for lack of anything better to do. I didn't exchange contact information with her for two reasons: (1) I was tired, which makes me fall in love more easily (2) she would be leaving in two weeks, and I didn't want to try and work my way frantically into her schedule to make up for 5 missed months. Release.