last week

oh dear i have not written in ages.

it is because i have had so little to eat, and it has also been so cold that i went into a week long hibernation.

basically one day i was just so hungry(after not eating for 2 days maybe?) and it was also so cold, that i curled up in a corner of my bed with my blanket and just slept.

7 days later i wake up and not only am i still hungry, it is also still cold.
and now it is raining too.

HAHA.
LIKE REAL.

last week my parents came (i.e. resup)
so i have been living and eating well the past week.
so well that i have not had the time to write.

welcome to japan!

let me just do some update of what has happened in the past week,

last sunday i went to church.
it was all in jap, i didn't know what the pastor was talking about, but halfway through the sermon, she took out a rice cooker and talked about it for a while. i found that funny.
still, i could follow when they read the bible cos i could figure out the references, so i read the texts in english first before looking at the japanese bible.
and the songs i could sing too (yay) cos they are all translated hymns (some english and others from various european languages) and got tao gei, plus the words in hiragana.
the church is very small and the people are all old uncles and aunties.
i felt quite at home. haha.

these are the church members :)

their fellowship lunch!

and then later that day i met a SUMO!
FINALLY!
one key objective in my stay here met (as the title of this blog would suggest)

and then after that i linked up with my family.
i went to ohkubo station to meet them ans stay with them for the next few days.

after that i went  back to dorm while they remained there for another day or two before they made their way down to hachioji to stay too.

so we went all about town for a couple of days. went to places like harajuku and roppongi and did a lot of shopping and eating and sleeping and eating and walking and eating. and eating. and eating.
and eating.

food has been good since we met. my stomach has been glad.

and then erwin left on saturday while my parents left on monday morning.

and then back to normal school life for me.
but what is quite not so normal now is the stuff that i got from their stay.

some of the new things in my stock now include:
rice cooker
knives and scissors for cooking
sleeping bag
travel haversack
soccer bootSssss
smart phone
climbing shoes
an instax
street soccer shoes
more clothes
lotsa food
and
BAKWAAAAaaaaaaaa

oh

and lotsa MONEH.

now i am a rich man and i can live above the poverty line.
furthermore,
last sunday, while waiting for my family to arrive, i was killing time in tachikawa (the place from which i go to church)
and right there....i found a citibank!
and i tried drawing money.
and i could!
so now, i have access to cash too!

the citi never $leep$

so that's about the end of my resup story.

some other things happening in school,

i got the teaching english job thing so i going to have extra income from now on which will likely translate into donut dollars. will write more once i have my first session ba.

also, the uni soccer team is cool with me joining them for soccer training. so i have been joining quite regularly and it has been fun.
only thing is they train at night and i don't wear specs when i play with them so it's really hard for me to see at night without contacts or what. i might get contacts soon maybe cos i forget to bring from sg.
the other thing though is i just strained my groin muscle (i think cos it's so cold and i never warm up enough, so pulled a cold muscle). hope it does not take too long to recover.

OK.
THAT'S it. update of a week compressed in one post.
one more hour to champ league.

and to end things off, here's a pic of the sumo i met.

friendly sumo