Freeballin'!

i'll get to the stuff about the mountain and ocean and whatnot later, but right now i have to detail this little example of how far away from everything we are here. today after lunch, some of the westerners were sitting outside with nary a thing to do, (it's a friggin beautiful day, incidentally) and i wasn't there for it's genesis, but i'm guessing someone said something like "i'm so goddamn bored" and then someone else responded with something like "hey, i know! let's see if we can bounce this tennis ball off the building and get it to land on the testicles of someone lying under the path of the ball!" and apparently everyone with testicles said "yeah! great idea!", because i came out to the first round of a new aiu game called "freeballin'!". one point for the face and chest, two points for thigh, and a big three points for a direct hit. if you hit the person sitting on the sidelines reading their book, that's a negative two. the person with the lowest score after someone gets to ten or there's a direct hit is the next to be prostrate in front of the big lobby windows. i crapped out one round and had to assume the position, but nobody got a bullseye with me. we're all still finding our way around the game, i guess. so that's how you spend a sunday afternoon in the sticks in japan, everybody. i'm gonna go eat now and then buy a ukelele.