The supersparkle goes to Japan!

So I’ve been working pretty much non stop the past couple of days well into the wee hours of the night on my project, but today I got to take a break, b/c we were going to a baseball game. Just by chance I wore my orange and black ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ T-shirt and guess what the colors of Tokyo Giants team was…you guessed it. orange and black, so it was perfect. I wanted to get some sort of souvenier so I got an adiddas wrist band with #7 on it for good luck for the team…and the #7 player turned out to be awesome. Well at least in the beginning he appeared to be awesome. Well before I get to that, let me tell you about the game.

So the game was at the Tokyo Dome which also apparently is a part of some amuzement park as there was a ferris wheel and roller coaster and rides right outside. So the game cost 2100 yen (approx $21) which wasn’t too bad and the food wasn’t that bad either I got a bowl of noodles, some edamame, and a beer for 1000 yen…which was almost the cheapest dinner I’ve gotten so far. So we go sit down and we’re kind of nervous because we weren’t exactly sitting in the giants section and both me and sensee wore orange shirts just by chance and so everyone probably thought we had worn them on purpose for the game. But it was cool, people don’t get all rowdy and booing like they do in the states. Instead everyone sings songs. In fact a different song for each player that goes up to bat. Songs in between those songs, and songs when the teams switch on the field and songs when the cheerleaders come out. It’s really fun, cause they really get into it. Well at least the giants fans really got into it. The other teams songs were way weak in comparison. And so these songs you can listen to on some of the videos I took and will be uploading shortly. So it’s hard to see but the songs are also accompanied with clapping and syncronized dancing of the baseball fans…they really get into this here. It was awesome! We didn’t get to see it, but they say that if the team’s relief pitcher gets called in towards the end of the game, he gets driven to the mound via convertable like miss america or something. That would have been crazy, but the singing and dancing and watching the beer girls all over the place were good enough. Oh yeah there’s also this other custom that if you get a home run, the mascot gives that player a stuff animal mascot, which the player then proceeds to throw into the audience.

So that was my Japanese baseball experience in a nutshell. I would elaborate more, but the pictures will tell the rest of the story. Pay no attention to the picture of me and my arm though in one of the pictures…I hate it when it looks so huge in pictures…for some reason my arms always look a lot bigger than they are in real life, at least i hope that’s the case…I’ve been losing weight since I’ve been here, not gaining it. uggggh, i think being surrounded by tiny Japanese women day in and day out is started to get to me. I tried to find a pair of jeans once…big mistake…it was quite a depressing experience. at least i can fit their shoes. i’m going to bring home one pair of high heels for no more than 2000 yen ($20) and learn how to walk in them. i’m gonna be all fancified once i start working again. no more tshirt and jeans for me….well once my account recovers from this trip.

Alright well that’s all for today…hope you’re all doing well in the NC of the US of A. hurricane’s are doing well this season I hear. wed? the big day i think? I’ll be cheering for our boys here in tokyo!!! i think i can download the game on itunes…i might just do it for 1.99 although i wish i could go.

Later taters, Sharon

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