I joined the Kitakami Sport and Activity center yesterday. It’s pretty much a fancy name for a gym. It’s on the 7th and 8th floors of the big shopping center we have in the city called ‘Sakurano.’ The actual gym itself has windows looking over the city and you can see the snow capped mountains from the treadmills. It looks really cool, but I thought it was funny that people would rather walk in one spot and look at a mountain then actually go walking there.
The language barrier while becoming less and less ever so slowly still caused what should have been a 20 minute application to last over an hour. At parts the girl who was signing me up and I were in hysterics trying to work out what the other was saying. With both of us flailing our arms about it was kind of like playing charades… You know one of those rounds where nobody has the slightest clue what the other is doing and nobody wins. In the end it all worked out though, however when she read the rules I just agreed to everything. Probably the reason why I wasn’t allowed to enter with only one pair of shoes.
That’s right; I rode to the gym and was sent back for not having an ‘outside’ pair of shoes and an ‘inside’ pair of shoes. Talk about strict. Damn culture. So I rode back home, wore my ex-school shoes with my jeans like a dick and was allowed to enter… Only to take the bloody things off and put on my runners almost immediately after.
Ah well. Anyway it’s funny to watch the old guys look at you when your doing weights. They all kind of whisper to each other and you hear them exclaim “Amazing!” in Japanese. Makes me feel better because after having not been to a gym for just on two months I was starting to feel like an absolute show bag full of shit.
Oh yeah… Another great thing about having started at the gym is the machines room where the weights are looks directly into the ‘dance studio’ where all the girls are working out. So if it comes to watching mountains on the treadmills or working out in the weights room you can guess where I’ll be spending most of my time.
Thursday 12 June 2008
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MICHAEL KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK WITH YOUR COMINGS AND GOINGS.VERY ENTERTAINING.I AM THOROUGHLY LOVING IT
CHOOKA I SENT THE ANON ONE BUT DIDNT MEAN TO YOU MUST NEED NRE CLOTHES BY NOW
"Amazing" is probably one of my favourite Japanese words - not only do I understand it, but it's always so flattering!
Great that you joined the gym - wish I had time for it. :( Maybe sometime down the track. In the meantime, you'll just have to keep posting amusing gym stories. :)
As for that last part... sounds like the gym designer was a dodgy dude. Dodgy... but sooo crafty! Kudos to him.
Mike,how clever is that Ev.Gym sounds like it will be interesting especially watching the dance classes while pedalling
Me thinks you will get skinnier and skinnier watching the dance classes!!!!
Hey Mike! Good to see your having an awesome time. Keep updating this page mate!
I heard the summers are killer over there too because of the humidity. Anyway from the photos looks like a really nice place and people. =)
HEY WHATS HAPPENING CHOOKA NO ENTRIES FOR A WEEK NOW I THOUGHT WE WOULD HEAR ABOUT THE FRIDGE FALLING OVER ETC.
G'day Mikey, I'm catching up with things - good to see you are enjoying the experience. Rest assured we think of you frequently. All the best from "grumpy's" mate!!
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