Last night while walking home quite late from showing R a different route back to his little fishing village I ran into Yamamuro and the volunteer firies. They all started acting rather foolish the moment I rocked up, and because they were in a group I guess they were feeling a little bit braver than usual. Yamamuro introduced me to the chief and a couple of his mates and then all the others started coming over to shake hands with me. Yamamuro decided to be his usual helpful self and point out all the single lads for me at which point a few of them thought it wise to inform me that they "love foreigners and want to marry a Russian". Yeah right. Nice to meet you too. I told them they should move to Hiroshima, lots of Russian hookers there for them. What is it with the Japs and Russians? They love em. I guess it's because they generally tend to fit the gaijin stereotype - that is tall, thin and blonde. But what is with announcing it to people like that? I don't go to parties at home and hear blokes I have just met saying "I love Asians, I want to marry a Malaysian", in fact, the last thing you would hear a bloke at a party talking about is marriage! (unless it's one of those parties that occurs after a wedding in which case you may hear more than the usual amount of blokey marriage conversation). And, I guess to a lot of people these days that kind of statement could be taken as a little racist really. How can you narrow your search field down to a particular nationality unless you believe that everyone from that particular country has similar characteristics?
Anyway, after this display of juvenile behaviour I was keen to head on home so Yamamuro walked me home. He started talking about his marriage woes, which was actually quite interesting for me because I have never had the inside goss on a Japanese marriage before. Seems he has got himself into quite a mess. So after all this talk I didn't end up getting to bed until about 12:30, probably a good thing because it meant I fell asleep immediately rather than lying awake being excited about my flight tonight. This morning I packed my toothbrush and I am all set. I unplugged my fridge and brought the three remaining beers with me to school and put them in the fridge here. All intentions of taking them home and giving them to one of my neighbours, but if I forget to pick them up it might not be a bad thing. Emergency supplies for after particularly bad classes...
So the plan is jump on a train to Okayama, shinkansen from there to Shin-Osaka and train it out to Kansai where I get on my plane at 1:30am. Arrive Phuket 9am tomorrow, somehow find mum at the airport and head to the nearest beach. :)
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