Phone number and address

If anyone wants to know, here's my phone number- 09058281849 ...i cant remember what japans country code is...maybe 81
my address is:

ryan marks
352-1 leopalace soreu 106
Ibaraki-ken, Tsuchiura-shi, Nagakuni
300-0817

i give you this information just in case you feel like sending me an ipod (mine broke on the plane), mario hoops for the nintendo ds, or dragon quest heroes, also for the ds....thanks in advance :-P

today i had my first class...not really, though...i distributed a math test (dont ask me, i just do what i'm told) and sat there until the kids were done...then it was back to sports festival practice! whatever, though, i'm gettin' paid! I also ate lunch with the kids today for the second time (as opposed to eating in the teacher's office). It's a good time, they just basically yell whatever english they know at me, and i respond, and they all giggle. Interesting little culture thing though- at the schools here (at least the public ones), the kids all eat lunch in their own homerooms and the food is served by their classmates (who wear face masks and white cafeteria coat things). Everyone waits until everyone has their food, and then they say "Itadakimasu!" and then everyone starts eating ("Itadakimasu" is a phrase everyone says before they start eating anywhere, and roughly means "I will receive"). It's kinda nice. Japanese kids are so freakin' patient.

last night i ate dinner at an awesome ramen shop, that i guess is a pretty well-known chain in japan...it's called ninniku kagetsu ramen, which means "garlic ___ ramen" ...don't know what kagetsu means, but they load up on the ninniku, i love it, and it's literally like 3 minutes away...i might go there for dinner, or i might try a new place...we'll just have to see!!

this weekend should be fun...the sports festival is saturday (i have to "work," but that means i get monday off) and after the festival, the colleagues and teachers invited me to get wasted with them in downtown tsuchiura...manami might come with to help with hongaku (translating) for me...should be a good time!

oh and if you feel like sending me the new strike anywhere and mars volta cds, i'll listen to them ;)

and i'm out.