We both know this school
let’s enjoy it together
then I’ll smash sushi
Today for my final Monday of work I had the pleasure of
spending some time with great people throughout the day. On top of my students,
I spent time with my Program Coordinator, my colleague Simon, my good friend
Yoshi, Aykut, and my father.
The most interesting part of any meeting today was that Yoshi was a student at Rikkyo University, so he was visiting his alma mater in order to visit me. I met him in Vancouver two years ago, so I thought it was really cool when he posted a few months ago to let me know the school I’d be teaching at was in fact the one he’d graduated from. We met in front of the school store, in St. Paul’s Plaza this afternoon. It was cool that I could pick such a specific, out of the norm meeting point with a friend here in Tokyo, that we both knew well from different points in our life. We went for some food and walked around campus a bit. I was actually able to show him a couple places he didn’t know and showed him the building I work in, which he didn’t know of beforehand either.
The most interesting part of any meeting today was that Yoshi was a student at Rikkyo University, so he was visiting his alma mater in order to visit me. I met him in Vancouver two years ago, so I thought it was really cool when he posted a few months ago to let me know the school I’d be teaching at was in fact the one he’d graduated from. We met in front of the school store, in St. Paul’s Plaza this afternoon. It was cool that I could pick such a specific, out of the norm meeting point with a friend here in Tokyo, that we both knew well from different points in our life. We went for some food and walked around campus a bit. I was actually able to show him a couple places he didn’t know and showed him the building I work in, which he didn’t know of beforehand either.
After work Aykut and I met with my dad and we did some shopping before taking him to the
sushi place I’ve been several times and took Aykut to last week. We went shopping at the Parco department store in the station, which is my favourite store in the world now. Aykut and I both bought shirts in one section, except there was a small issue, the fact that they had no fitting room there. Aykut asked where the fitting room was and the guy said it was downstairs. But we couldn't take the clothes downstairs. So it basically made no sense. I ended up covertly trying on the shirt I liked after realizing I couldn't get much of a sense of what a polo looked like over top of my dress shirt. The shirt was super cool and a good deal, like a lot of stuff in Parco, so I decided just to buy it and not change back into my dress shirt. The clerk was very accommodating, cutting off the tag for me and making sure the stickers and things were off the shirt. The whole thing looked pretty funny though and my dad and Aykut cracking jokes about it while taking pictures did little to divert attention away from me.
After shopping we headed to the sushi joint, where the line was
on the good side for the place. This time we got our own booth in a new part
of the restaurant I hadn’t sat before. Everything was typically excellent. My
dad enjoyed the atmosphere and the food thoroughly. Everybody loves the place.
I’ll be sad to no longer be so close to it every day in just a few days.
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