{"id":4948,"date":"2014-09-30T08:01:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2014-09-30T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:03:27","slug":"japan-trip-part-2-tues-wed-fight-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2014\/09\/30\/japan-trip-part-2-tues-wed-fight-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan trip part 2: Tues. &#038; Wed. Fight week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday the 16th&#8230;. I can&#8217;t remember exactly what I did.  I think I did a lot of sitting around, not being sure what I was supposed to be doing.  And then suddenly being called to translate something, so I hopped up and busted butt to that location.  A few fighters had mishaps with interview times, so I helped communicate with the Japanese cornermen and UFC staff. \ud83d\ude42  I was useful.  <\/p>\n<p>Then, Shu took me out for dinner at his friend&#8217;s restaurant.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shu-ikura-restuarant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shu-ikura-restuarant.jpg\" alt=\"shu ikura restuarant\" width=\"387\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4950\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shu-restaurant3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shu-restaurant3.jpg\" alt=\"shu restaurant3\" width=\"387\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4951\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shu-rstaurant-fish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shu-rstaurant-fish.jpg\" alt=\"shu rstaurant fish\" width=\"387\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4952\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n I think that was Tuesday&#8230;. oh well. I ate SUCH high quality delicious Japanese food, that I just can&#8217;t get in the States!  I had been craving it for so long! Thanks, Shu. \ud83d\ude00 <3\n\nBrittany stayed in the same hotel room with me because she had media work to do.  So all week long, it was like a big girlie sleep over!  .....which involved us both collapsing into bed exhausted at like 10 or 11 PM. So it wasn't really like a sleep over at all.... it was like an grown-up sleep over with two hard-working fighters. LOL   Plus I was super jet-lagged so I was dying to eat breakfast at 6:30 when it opened, so she made herself get up so we could eat together. <3 Then Julianna came and we met Miesha at once point! :D\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/breakfast-with-miesha-bri-juli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/breakfast-with-miesha-bri-juli.jpg\" alt=\"breakfast with miesha bri juli\" width=\"480\" height=\"342\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4953\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2026 what did we do?<br \/>\nRandom things. I think I did a lot of waiting around to see what was needed. I rolled towels. Oh yeah! There was media day from 1-2PM and I translated for Roy Nelson, and Gomi! That was exciting. And I was so nervous.  I mean, I&#8217;ve been watching The Fireball Kid fight since when I debuted!   He was nice and encouraged me to translate, though, when I showed lack of confidence in myself. That was nice.  I hope he doesn&#8217;t hate me now because  the staff kept having me call his hotel room to remind him of stuff, even though he wasn&#8217;t late or anything. \ud83d\ude41 I felt bad for bothering him.  I want to let him know that it wasn&#8217;t my idea to be constantly calling his hotel room. *facepalm* But it was part of my job.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/line-up-of-fighters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/line-up-of-fighters.jpg\" alt=\"line up of fighters\" width=\"488\" height=\"451\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4949\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brittany was at the press conference, and it was cool to see my former teammates there. \ud83d\ude42 Kanehara-san and Noripi! And Mizugaki san played the UFC video game (using himself) against Uriah Faber (using himself) haha it was funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday the 16th&#8230;. I can&#8217;t remember exactly what I did. I think I did a lot of sitting around, not being sure what I was supposed to be doing. And then suddenly being called to translate something, so I hopped up and busted butt to that location. A few fighters had mishaps with interview times,&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","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=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}