{"id":5007,"date":"2014-10-13T22:16:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T04:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2014-10-13T22:16:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T04:16:41","slug":"japan-trip-7-wed-pt-2-friday-training-ice-cream-old-coaches-b-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2014\/10\/13\/japan-trip-7-wed-pt-2-friday-training-ice-cream-old-coaches-b-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan trip 7 – Wed. pt 2 – Friday (training, ice cream, old coaches, B-day)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After that CITI bank fiasco, I made it to Hirama, my old town, to have lunch with my host mother. She gave me a lovely Noren curtain as a gift! I was so touched! \ud83d\ude00 I took a picture of it hanging up in front of my bedroom door once I got home. She\u2019s doing well. I think she\u2019s like 75 but she\u2019s so full of energetic and genki. I love her. \uf04a<\/p>\n

After that, Omigawa-san invited me to do Neo Judo, but I was tired and didn\u2019t want to train, so I hung out with Brittany for the rest of the afternoon, and we had dinner together. We would be training hard together on Thursday, the next day. <\/p>\n

It was my birthday! So we hung out in Wired Caf\u00e9 and ate good food and ice cream, and then took a walk.
\n\"roxy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"buri<\/a>
\n I got an email from Omigawa-san telling me to come to Neo Judo, but I said I couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

At like 11 PM I got another message from him saying, \u201cI bought you a birthday cake. We\u2019ll eat it together after training! Thanks!\u201d He sent me a picture of \u201cHappy Birthday Roxy.\u201d Written on it. How sweet! Those things are expensive.<\/p>\n

So THAT\u2019s why he wanted me to come! Oops, I had no idea. :\/ oh well. We\u2019d eat it tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I woke up and on the train to Groundslam training, I reread Omigawa-san\u2019s message. I had misread it last night! It didn\u2019t say \u201cWe will eat it together after training,\u201d it read, \u201cWe ate it together after training. Thanks!\u201d<\/p>\n

So\u2026\u2026. They already ate\u2026.my birthday cake?? Without me? I mean, it was his because he bought it. But\u2026 I dunno. ^^; I have mixed feelings about that\u2026..
\nAnyway, Brittany and I enjoyed training at Groundslam. It consisted mostly of us drilling stuff I learned at Syndicate, because everybody else showed up late and then just did MMA sparring. ^^; great time! Omigawa-san actually gave me a gift of a herb tea bottle. Thank you!
\n\"groundslam<\/a><\/p>\n

See, guys? It’s normal in Japan to yell spontaneously for pictures. I’m not weird!! XD<\/p>\n

\"omigawa<\/a><\/p>\n

Katsumura-san taught us this move he tapped me out with. @_@;; lol so funny. I haven’t pulled it off yet…
\n\"katsumura<\/a><\/p>\n

After that, Brittany and Omigawa-san and I went to the Main Caf\u00e9 called \u201cHoney Honey\u201d and got Omurice and a huge parfait.
\n\"katusmura<\/a><\/p>\n

\"omu<\/a><\/p>\n

And they tried for like 15 mins to convince me to dress up like a maid, but I refused. ^^;; They almost wouldn\u2019t let Brittany do it if I didn\u2019t do it, for some weird Japanese-rule reason. We twisted the maid’s arm.<\/p>\n

\"roxy<\/a><\/p>\n

I had a nice dinner planned with my friends Mami and Y-chan, but before that, my old trainer Kunioku-san invited me to practice with him and his student and my friend Rodney :D. I jumped at that! We did round robin grappling. I found the energy to train and it was fun.
\n\"roxy<\/a>
\nIt was sooo fun. After Rodney bolted, we actually had time to sit in Jonathans and have tea and a snack. So nice to catch up! :} <\/p>\n

Then I went to Noborito and had a nice dinner with my two friends. :} It\u2019s been a year for Mami and maybe three years for Y-chan!
\n\"mami<\/a>
\nSo nice.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t get to meet so many people I wanted to meet. :{ I\u2019m sorry about that\u2026.I think they probably feel like I blew them off. But I literally had no time. I can\u2019t believe I squeezed in seeing Kunioku-san between two other meal-dates. ^^; That got planned like the day before.<\/p>\n

Flying home, I didn\u2019t feel sad or have a heavy heart. This trip healed my heart. I knew that I was just a plane trip away. I felt like it wasn\u2019t my home anymore\u2026I was just a visitor. Vegas was my home, and I couldn\u2019t wait to get back to training at Syndicate. I have a new coach, a new team\u2026. I just miss my friends in Japan. :\/ It\u2019s so hard to talk to them because of the time difference. At least there\u2019s online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After that CITI bank fiasco, I made it to Hirama, my old town, to have lunch with my host mother. She gave me a lovely Noren curtain as a gift! I was so touched! \ud83d\ude00 I took a picture of it hanging up in front of my bedroom door once I got home. She\u2019s doing…<\/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":[6,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing","category-cultural","category-friends","category-6","category-13","category-9","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","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=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}