I had an odd week. Â Monday and Tuesday I took days off and did a few things around the house. I also finished off the manuscript for my second book – hah! Â Thursday I worked from home, which meant editing some videos and also going in to Little India to edit some videos. Â Friday was a regular day at work.
Nice weekend. Â On Saturday morning Zen and I went to see Megamind. Â It was pretty funny. Â I even laughed out loud once at a line, like “You’re so naive – I suppose you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Queen Elizabeth.” In the afternoon Zen and I went swimming, it was fun! Â In the evening we watched two episodes of Space: 1999.
Sunday started off with a softball tournament, which lasted until about 2:00. Â Zen’s team, the Coconuts (junior division) automatically won the first game, because the team that they had been matched up against had to withdraw for some reason. Â And then they also won their second match, which they played in real life, and won 9-2. Â Zen didn’t have much action, but it was a good game. Â That was followed by another game, which the team lost, but not by a wide margin – 6-4, so they were out of the championship, but they could play for 3rd or 4th place. Â That game they also lost, but a slightly wider margin – 6-3. Â But we were happy that the Coconuts won games in two consecutive tournaments, that when they lost they only lost by a few points (not like previous years’ blowouts), that they were playing better together as a team, and that they got as high as fourth place!
After that we went home, had a swim, took a nap, and Naoko and Zen packed and prepared for their trip back to Japan tonight. Â I went through Zen’s book and papers tidying up things, filled two bags of stuff to toss and one of books to sell/give away to next year’s students (if they do that sort of thing here).
It was a fun day, but a bit sad – Naoko and Zen will be gone for six weeks.