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10:38am JST Saturday 5 April 2003

Oh jeez

It all started by missing my first stop (out of dumbness for having not more carefully memorizing the name of my transfer station) for I was certain that my stop was farther past a certain notable landmark (rail yard of many tracks) and that we got off at my station on the left, not the right.

Went one more station, got off, turned around, got on, went one station, and the announcer voice in Japanese yammered something in Japanese and then said in English, "this train is bound for musashi-kosugi; the next station is shin-busagu" or some shit like that and I'm like cool musashi-kosugi. Got off and it looked a bit different cause I was coming from the other direction, went down the stairs, through the turnstiles with my ticket and hear the BING BONG that shouts to everyone "HEY EVERYBODY LOOK!! THIS GUY IS TRYING TO GET THROUGH THE TURNSTILES WITH A BOGUS TICKET!!!!"

Now if this happens when I know I'm at the correct station and there's millions of people busting through the turnstiles all at once and bing-bongs happening every 20 seconds, then no one can track it. But, there was one person going through the turnstiles, including me.

And I was in the wrong station.

Fuck! How did that happen?

To the gate guard all, "musashi-kosugi" and he's all, "yammeryammeryammer no musashi-kosugi [for you]"

I'm all, "Kawasaki" and pointing to my rail pass, cause Kawasaki is where I need to go ultimately.

He's all "yammeryammeryammeryammer" and then "yammeryammeryammer yammeryammer" and pointing all over the place outside the station toward McDonald's and inside the station at the turnstiles and I'm like fuck! cause I have no idea what he was saying

but I went over to where he seemed to be pointing most often, but that was outside and I'm like hollering quietly goddammitfuckinshitmotherfuckerbitchshit and a woman who had seen my plight guided me through and I was all, "arigato arigato arigato" to her a ton.

I recognized I had originally been on an express train, which skipped the station that the local train visited while going the other direction. The woman actually went on the train with me that one extra station and once I knew where I was I tried to shake her off me (verbally) so she could do whatever she does in her real life. Finally I was putting up my hand like stop toward her and she got it. More "arigatos" and I was on my way.

Today

7:42pm JST Saturday 5 April 2003

Today at work was much better than I thought it might be. I basically would just wing every class, doing no preparation except choosing a lesson number beforehand. I mentioned this to one of the guys there, like "man I got this shit down - just winging the whole operation."

And he's like "you don't really want to say that on your first day."

"Why not?"

"Over confidence," he said as if it were two words.

Dude. Whatever. If I got this shit down, or at least think I do, then fuckin' whatever. Yeah I told him.

Actually I didn't say anything but made a mental note to not tell him anything interesting anymore.