{"id":253,"date":"2011-03-14T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2011-03-14T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:30:10","slug":"i-trained-at-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2011\/03\/14\/i-trained-at-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"I trained at &#8220;Alive.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guys I&#8217;m staying with are playing Streetfighter on a huge TV right next to me.<br \/>\nAnd they&#8217;re cussing and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really comforting.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I LITERALLY ate all day, because I have a big appetite when I&#8217;m nervous or depressed.  I&#8217;m both. I&#8217;ve definitely gained weight, and that&#8217;s frustrating.   Finally, we got out of the apartment at 11 and walked around Nagoya castle.  It was nice&#8230;.but I wasn&#8217;t paying attention 100% because I kept reading twitter and news sites about the reactors and situations&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roxy-nagoya-castle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/roxy-nagoya-castle2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"roxy nagoya castle2\" width=\"524\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-255\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis evening, I trained at the Alive Gym, where Hioki and Takimoto train, but neither were there.  Suzuki-san was, and he&#8217;s a black belt AND excellent kickboxing coach&#8230;he was so nice to me.  He knew me by name!  and welcomed me.  We did a striking class and MMA.  It was okay.  I was kind of depressed so I had trouble pushing myself, and I just wanted to grapple, but it was nice to refresh myself, kind of.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been struggling with the decision of leaving the country.  Many of my friends are.  They say their lives are more important than their jobs.  But I love Japan and this is my home&#8230;and if I leave, I&#8217;ll get fired from my job.  I want to keep working for Berlitz.  But I&#8217;ve been invited to go to Singapore for a time. But my boss wouldn&#8217;t give me time off&#8230;what do I do? -_-;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/at-alive11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/at-alive11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"at alive1\" width=\"486\" height=\"408\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-257\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMaybe I can stay in Nagoya&#8230;maybe it&#8217;s good enough.  But I&#8217;m expected to show up to work on Wednesday unless management decides against it.<\/p>\n<p>I heard that there&#8217;s no more food in grocery stores in Tokyo and trains are stopped. I&#8217;m not going to be able to get from my apartment to work.  Do they expect me to camp out at the office?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guys I&#8217;m staying with are playing Streetfighter on a huge TV right next to me. And they&#8217;re cussing and stuff. It&#8217;s really comforting. Today, I LITERALLY ate all day, because I have a big appetite when I&#8217;m nervous or depressed. I&#8217;m both. I&#8217;ve definitely gained weight, and that&#8217;s frustrating. Finally, we got out of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-quake-and-aftermath","category-10","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}