baseball!!!! and kanji?

room, post shower - Yesterday was the baseball game! It was clear that whole day and hot. Yuck weather for me. Luckily I was indoors for most of it. I went to class in the morning and had a killer kanji exam, I don't want to think about it. XP I did class work in the library up until I had to go meet for the game. We were supposed to meet in Nagoya Daigaku subway station at 5. That is the same station I get off at and walk to Nanzan from. I got there and slowly everyone started to assemble. Once everyone had arrived we started off to the Nagoya Dome.

First off I'll explain a bit about this trip. I was invited by my good friend and commute buddy Kai. Kai's full name is Kainyu Rin. She is Burmese and is studying abroad through a company scholarship in Japan. The company frequently plans trips for their scholarship students (just like my program through IES plans trips for its students; at Nanzan their are IES, ISEP, exchange, and all kinds of different foreign students). Kai was allowed to invite up to three friends. From our class she invited me, Tori, and Natalie. I was excited to get to know the latter two better b/c they have not been in my section in class. They and Kai are all in section one while I have always been in section two. Actually most recently Natalie was moved to section two in the latest section scramble but I still haven't gotten to talk to her much. There were also other students from my Japanese class on the trip and one other IES student that I know well. Any-hoo this company paid for everything which is AWESOME!! =D

We got off the subway at the Nagoya Dome station. We walked to the stadium (which is an enclosed indoor one, literally a dome). We sat in a VIP section and got served a meal before the game started. The food was delicious! Xd We were also given little plastic bat noise makers and were told it was our job to cheer for the Nagoya Dragons with them! We were seated behind first base and had a great view. The game was great. The Dragons were losing 2 to 0 to the Swallows (a Tokyo team) up until the 7th inning when the second home run of the game was hit bringing in two runs for the Dragons. Then it was all tied up. It was still tied at the end of the 9th inning. They put up three more innings on the score board. In Japan it is done a little differently. We all agreed we couldn't stay any longer so we left as a group after the 10th inning with the score still tied 2 to 2. I still haven't been able to figure out how the game ended. :o

I got home and quickly ate and showered. I was so exhausted I collapsed in bed shortly there after. I had a great time. I got to talk with Kai, Tori, and Natalie (latter two are really cool by the way). I got to keep the cool noise maker as a souvenir (I love free souvenirs). And I took a ton of pictures. Plus the game was INSIDE. I was shielded from the sun!!!! I mean it was a night game... but still!!!

One more thing I have to mention about Japanese baseball. They have cheerleaders!!!!!! I was so surprised to see cheerleaders at a baseball game!! o_O

Today was fine. It rained all day which is my kind of weather. I have my third kanji test of the week tomorrow. I am so sick of kanji right now...