Happy (belated) Golden Week!

With less than two months to go, it seems life seems to be speeding up more than it's been slowing down. I've been keeping pretty busy lately as it was Golden Week last week. With just over a week of time off, I tried to keep things pretty relaxed but actually ended up being pretty busy. The first day off, I went and visited Fumiko-obasan's place not far from Ikebukuro. I always enjoy visiting her as visits usually consist of sitting, drinking tea, talking, eating, and watching Japanese TV. It was a good way to start off the week. After that, I came back to Atsugi where I hung out with my friends and ended up doing karaoke till 5am while waiting for the first trains to run... To say that was karaoke hell would be an understatement of extreme proportions.

The following Friday, I planned on visiting my buddy Fish and his wife, Reiko, up in Tochigi (another prefecture about 3 hrs away from where I lived. I first met Fish when I came to work for Peppy Kids Club (lame name I know), as he was in my same group. We became good friends, but unfortunately, he ended up moving to Tochigi with Reiko not long after. Fish is a guy from Texas and he first came to Japan with the Navy back in 2002 (I think). Anyways, I planned on being up there for two nights, but as things go I ended up there for four nights instead.

It was an interesting time being up there because Reiko and Fish seem to live in the Hawaiian time zone as they usually go to sleep at 5 in the morning and wake up at 2 or 3 in the afternoon. Why they choose to live like that is honestly beyond me. This is interesting to me because I live in on a different time schedule... I go to bed at 10-11pm and am usually up by 8-9am. As you could imagine, visiting them made me change my schedule a bit. Every night, I would try my best to stay up with them but would always cave around 2am. The next morning (well, afternoon), they would always say to me "We were doing Billy (Blancs - the Tae Bo Guy) at 4am! You should join next time!" Um... not for me, thanks.

Well, this is just a quick recap of my week. Now it's off to work I go. I hope you are all doing well.

~ Kenji