The Welcoming Party

So after our basketball games the team took me out for a welcoming party at a local izakaya (a standard restaurant that serves everything from tempura and tofu to sashimi and noodles). I had every intention of limiting my intake of alcohol that night, feeling pretty tired after two long games of basketball earlier that day, but as it turned out my teammates had other plans. I'm fairly certain that I got alcohol poisoning that evening, but I won't go into details. All in all it was a really fun evening. The naked guy in the pictures is my friend Kimu. We are about the same age so we hang out every once in a while. Supposedly his morning after was worse than mine. Hard to believe.

Kimitsu Club vs. The Golden Oldies

So here are some pictures of my first game with my basketball club team. We are the Spurlets, whatever a spurlet is. The team we played is supposedly the best over-50 team in all of Kanto, which is pretty impressive. Kanto is the region of Japan that contains Tokyo, so its saying alot. These guys were no scrubs, and from what my teammates were trying to tell me, the big, nasty old man that I had to play against, he's being recognized later this year for being the best over-50 player in Kanto. The dude could ball, and he had a mean streak going too. And just to let everyone know, we won both games handily.

Who is that handsome devil down there?

Hahaha. This was sitting on my desk the other day, I think its a teacher roster for the PTA meeting. The teacher to my left is Mr. Maeda, one of the most boring people on the planet but totally awesome. He has fairly good english so he talks to me all the time about some really strange things. One time he brought me a newspaper with a front page story about a German girl who had been abducted and raped for two years in this guy's basement and he wanted me to explain every little detail in the story to him in the teacher's room. A little awkward.