Last night, I slept again from 5pm to around 10pm. I had my brunch of katsu-kari (curry with deep-fried pork cutlet or "tonkatsu") and some Japanese bento meal at ~3:10pm already. Then I slept from 5pm to around 10pm. I had a 6" "instant" pizza, and ice cream for dinner. I slept at around 4am already, I think. I woke up at around 12noon, but as expected I was a little too tired. But surprisingly, I didn't have any real muscle or heel pain, not like just right after the climb.
Anyways, I was too tired even to prepare or buy lunch. I just edited my videos from the Fuji trip and then whoah, it was 4:30pm already. I had to go to the 5pm mass at the Atsugi Catholic Church.
I just found out that the videos on Multiply, where I have my Mt Fuji videos hosted, play only up to the 10:00 minute mark. Yikes! If you can find a way, download the whole video to your computer and watch it offline. Alternatively, if you have a Facebook account, and I'm your friend there, you can watch it from these links:
Part 1. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=463002935927
Part 2. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=463007370927
I took the 4:50pm bus and made it in time for I think the Glory song - I wasn't sure because it was in a foreign language. This 5pm mass is actually a special International Mass, in celebration of the feast of the Assumption today, the 15th of August. Very interesting mass. The 1st reading was in Portuguese, the Responsorial Psalm in Japanese, the 2nd reading in Spanish, the Gospel in English, and the homily in both English and Japanese. The prayers of the faithful were in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Japanese, in that order. The Our Father was in English. The recessional song ("Santa Maria del Camino") was in Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, and Japanese.
Then after the mass, there was a little party. There was my lunch! God making lambing. I was looking forward to this as well as this was a chance to meet some fellow Pinoys. I approached one guy who was apparently with a rather large group of 20-something fellow Pinoys. My opener was "Pinoy kayo?" He said yes but he and his friends were too shy, the only thing I got out of him was that they are not from Atsugi itself, that they were all here on training for 1 year, but they did not arrive here all at the same time. And then just like that, he said he had to go. Okay. On to my next Pinoy. I approached a more mature group and then proceeded with my opener question to the lone man amongst the otherwise group of women. He was a little more accommodating and was encouraging me to dig into the food before it all runs out. I guess the difference between this group and the first group I approached was that the former is composed of people who are here or have been here for a long time (say 2 years or more). I guess I belonged more to this group than the first. Apparently, not many Filipino going to church here in Atsugi are from Atsugi! Yikes, I wanna meet Pinoy Atsugi-ites! Anyways, it's all good. Finally I met the choir lead singer/organist, Rinna, and then she introduced me to a slightly younger group of 2-year or longer residents. I also met and interacted with Nina, Mickey, and another lady. Mickey is a 20-something student who graduated from Don Bosco Manda and is here with a Monbusho (Japanese ministry of education, etc) scholarship but haven't found a school yet so he's currently an English teacher; he's been here for 2 years. As usual, these guys aren't from Atsugi!
Anyways, it was fun meeting them and I hope to see them again next time. I just confirmed that there is indeed an English mass here in Atsugi also on the 1st Sunday of each month! That is great news.
At the party, in addition to the sushi, pasta, fruits, and sausages, I had lechon manok, kutsinta, biko, and sopas. Yummy, Filipino food! I don't really like sopas, but serve me sopas here (once in a while) in Japan, and I can finish thehole batch you cooked. I most especially loved the lechon manok. Yum-to-the-nth-power-mee. It was a pretty good lunch. :-D
I took off at around 7pm and went to KFC to buy my dinner for the next two days (6-piece chicken and "emu-saizu koru-suro" or M-size cole slaw). I also passed by the convenience store to buy milk and juice. Then back home. I ate my dinner at around 9pm already.
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