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I just came back from Chris and Jess’s. I go over to their place to play cards a lot; even though it took a while, I taught them how to play ba-shi fen/shang zi (my favorite card game) last week  so now I’m super excited I can play with people here too. Tonight though, we realized Kemi, another friend, hadn’t watched Ocean’s 11, so we watched that instead.

So I left at midnight to catch the train back home and for the first half of it, I had to stand up because so many people are going home from work (yes, at 12am). Finally seats became open and I sat two seats to the right of a girl who was sleeping; the seat between us remained empty. I closed my eyes, like a proper Japanese person on a train, and tried to drift off. A few seconds later, I felt hair on the side of my arm and quickly realized that the girl sitting to the left of me hadn’t mastered sleeping while staying upright -_- I fought the urge to laugh, and hoped that my face looked like I was sleeping too so I didn’t know what was happening. In the next three subsequent stops, she would suddenly sit up when the train stopped, but before the doors even closed, she would be sleeping on my arm again. It came to the point that by the last stop, which was my stop, she was completely leaning on me and totally horizontal. I was afraid that she wouldn’t wake up when the train stopped for the last time, but luckily she jerked awake. I looked at the people around me, but they were all diligently texting away on their cellphones, hehe.

Last week, I had another awkward experience while taking the train back home. There’s was a middle-aged man (wearing the standard work clothes, white top and black bottom) standing in between the train cars smoking, which is totally illegal. I smelled smoke and turned to look at him; he was staring right at me. I quickly looked away and a while later, I turned again, and he was still staring right me. He opened the screen after putting out his cigarette and held up two fingers and said something to me. He was obviously either drunk or just out of it. At this time, I was listening to “Through the Fire and Flames” by Dragonforce (yes, Rui, I’m still listening to that), which is really loud (and I had no desire to turn down), so even if I understood Japanese, I wouldn’t have been able to hear him. Luckily, my stop was the next stop so he just kept talking to me, and I kept staring at him blankly, not hearing a word. At the next stop, everyone around me walked to the door on the other side of the car, instead of going for the one nearest to us (thanks), and I just walked out the door, still playing my music, while he followed me, but I lost him in the crowd. creepy…

I went to the beach this past weekend! At Kamakura. The water wasn’t too cold, and the sand was super soft. We played President/A-hole on the sand with 10 people and 2 decks of cards; it was hilarious. We quickly realized that played completions up to 4 didn’t work… neither did 8. Afterward, we went to Denny’s to eat dinner! I got udon -_- and this “American Dark Cherry” crepe thing which had like 3 cherries on it. It was yummy though.

Oh, and I saw Harry Potter last night! at 7am EST Since I don’t remember this book as well as the others, I wasn’t like “grrr… they didn’t have this scene”, but they definitely put some liberties in changing small details, adding completely different scenes (the burrow, what?), and keeping the audience up to date on Draco’s plans. And Draco Malfoy was so hot in this movie! I think he got past puberty. I thought he was pretty ugly before. I really felt bad for him in the end, more so than the books made me feel. Also, the romantic scenes in the movie felt like Twilight… so awkward. But all in all, I thought it was good enough.

I’m still without a camera since the exchange rate took a sunk last week, but it’s climbing up again, so I’ll *finally* buy one this Saturday. Just in time cuz I’m going to climb Mount Fuji on Sunday night! Monday is a national holiday (Ocean day) so I get to watch the sunrise Monday morning.

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