Monday, January 28, 2008

Help from the office

Ever since Saturday night, not much has been going on.

I met my homestay parent's friend, who is currently learning English. Our language exchange was a good experience. We later went to an Italian restaurant and had dish after dish or oyster items. Apparently, it's high oyster season right now.

Once that was over, I just got home and went to bed.

On Monday, I did my thing in class. I finally bought all my books, put them in my locker, and when I went back, I realized I had accidentally changed my combination number to something totally random. So I went down to the office, and I got help right away. The people in TUJ are so much more helpful than the people at Temple Main. At Temple Main, people act like helping you is a major chore for them, especially when its their fault. For example, I was double charged for my meal plan. When I addressed, I got nothing but attitude - and it wasn't my fault at all. But this, on the other hand, was all my fault, but once I told her, she took care of it right away.

Later that night, I went to Silver Wolf and from a block away, I heard a guy yelling and hitting the bag. As I kept walking, I wondered who it was. I go up, and it was MASATO. You guys know he rules, right? This was my first time seeing Masato's training, and he was in good shape.

After Masato was done on the bags, I started hitting the bags and the Thai trainer corrects my stuff. Afterwards, he pulls me into the ring for padwork and just outside the ropes is MASATO, stretching and watching. I paid my homage to him by ripping the pads up as if I never had before. It was the shit.

I then did more training in the class and then a conditioning class with Daiguji-san. I was beat, so I went home, ate, and went to bed.

Today, I got a lot of classwork, so I'm going to get that all done tonight and unfortunatley, not train.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I have a friend in Temple who actually just got back from one of their study abroad trips (by boat). I guess that's the end of the story.

How crowded is the Silver Wolf gym, typically?

Unknown said...

Oh and why are the withdrawals limited to a certain amount per day? I recently read an article where a guy said he never travels overseas without a few ounces of gold just in case "something's wrong with the banks." Now I see what he meant, but why?

Imam said...

Silver Wolf isn't really that crowded. It's about the same size as PhillyMMA, maybe smaller

Only a dozen-14 people.

I guess so the machine doesn't run out of money.