Today’s classes went really well, and I was busy studying Japanese in the afternoon, so the day went by quickly. One interesting thing that happened was that I got called into the principal’s office. There the principal and vice-principal gave me another secret mission. Once again, the board of education supervisor had called my school and asked for me specifically to help coordinate the mid-year conference in Hyogo. This means that I’ll be plenty busy, but I’m not sure what my responsibilities are yet.
Since I had to stay late the day before, I took off early today and went home to get ready for poker night.
We had four people for poker this time, and I had the master of the yakitori make a bunch of food so that I could take it home and serve it. The food turned out great. Antoine and Struan found their way to my place after walking through Ito Yokado, and Yasu came over from next door.
We played lots of games, starting out slow for Yasu’s benefit, since he hadn’t played in a long time. We soon made our way into other more exotic games like “Screw Your Neighbor” and “Roll Your Own”. We started with beer but moved quickly to the red wine. The selection was great – we had a Chilean Cab Sauv, an Italian Chianti, a California Pinot Noir, and an Australian Shiraz.
The last hand of the night had by far the biggest pot. I was in a lucky position by being guaranteed from the first card that I would split the pot, so I raised and raised. Antoine was putting down big money, too, for some reason – probably because it was the last game. In the end Yasu and I split the pot – it was a big haul and made for a great end to the game. I said good night to everybody at the train station and then I went home and went right to sleep – I was exhausted!
