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Big Move!!

When you move, you usually need to bring big things and need a large amount of money. Bringing big stuff from your former house or a store to your new house is hard work. If you ask the company to help your move, or buy new things, you have to spend a lot of money. I just moved the other day and it was such a big move. To tell the truth in advance, I do not have such a large amount of money.

My new house only had a fridge-freezer, microwave, electric stove, and mattress. Before I began my new life there with my two friends, we discussed what the most necessary things are in the first few days. Our answer was mattresses and bedsheets. Then, our discussion went on about our need for desks and a dining table and chairs. Everything must be expensive if we buy them. Again, I can not afford to pay big prices.

However, I had prepared secret strategies since I decided the day of my move. After we brought our baggage to our new house, we went to Kent in my friend's car. Kent is a place located in the north-eastern part of Tacoma. A person who wants to give me a mattress lives in Kent. I got this information from the internet. We did not expect the mattress to be clean and in good condition. However, to our astonishment, it was a shiny black, gorgeous, queen sized, and free. Someone gets a good thing that someone does not need anymore. What a beautiful system!

However, the only problem for the mattress is that it was too big to go inside the car. We changed our plan, and put the mattress on the car and hung on to it using our arms. When we were driving on the freeway, our arms were numb because the strong power of the wind was lifting the mattress up against our arms' power. Obviously, we bought a rope to tie it up afterwards. We stopped in Puyallup and got another mattress for ten bucks.

The other day, I went on a trip to get a desk for studying. The destination was a store thirty blocks away from my house. At this time, I did not have my friend's help. After I bought a desk and chair quickly, I put them on a wheel barrow which I brought from my house, and bound them very firmly. My long trip started. For me, normally, the distance from 15oth street to 120th street is not too far, but the heavy stuff and strong sunshine made me tired. People who passed me on the street looked at me and smiled. At intersections, drivers stopped the car for me and gave me a smile. I like to see the people that.

I had been looking for a dining room table and chairs on the internet, but I had given up. Sometimes I found a cheap one that someone was selling, but I had to give up as the location was too far or another person already bought them when I contacted the owner. Finally, I found a good and cheap one and immediately went to the house. I was listening to the directions on the phone and it was near Pacific Ave., the main street in Tacoma. "It's not too far!" I thought. However, I was still walking down along the street even though one hour had passed after I got off the bus on Pacific Ave. I made a left and another left, and went down another street, and made a left again. At last, I saw the family who were selling the table. They had been thinking that I was coming to their house by car. They laughed at me and were impressed by my attitude that I would walk back to my house with the heavy stuff. Consequently, they discounted the price of the table, gave me two Cokes, and added a toaster oven that I was planning to buy later. In addition, they brought me back to my house with all of the stuff by car.

Again, when you start a new life, you need a la rge amount of money for moving or buying new things. Paying  a big money is the easiest and fastest way. However, there is another way to use your body and time. Doing it yourself is the cheapest and a beautiful way to connect with other people.

Revenge ~Matsuzaka, Ichiro, and Keita~

I went to Safco Field to watch the baseball game, the Seattle Mariners vs the Boston Red Sox. The game against Boston was one that many baseball fans wanted to watch because Boston is the most recent champion team and has many stars.

As I knew that Matsuzaka, the Japanese pitcher for Boston, would pitch against Ichiro, who is also a Japanese player, for Seattle, since I heard the news the other day, I was extremely excited. In the stadium, there was tension when the two Japanese faced off and two men were swearing to take revenge on the day.

For me, being Japanese, the match Matsuzaka vs Ichiro was unspeakably exciting. Matsuzaka, the pitcher of the game used be called "Monster" because he shut batters out like a monster. He was enrolled in the Boston Red Sox last year contracting 100million dallars for several years.

On the other hand, as for Ichiro, he is called "Genius" or "Hitting Machine" by baseball fans because he seems like he easily can get a hit. They are now star players all over the world. Luckily for me, the ticket I bought was the day that Matsuzaka pitched against the Mariners by chance. Amazingly, this happened a second time. The match between the "Monster" and the "Genius" used to be familiar when they played in Japan. The monster usually used the word "Revenge" when he lost a game.

One of the two persons who was swearing to take revenge was Matsuzaka. In the last game when Matsuzaka pitched against the Mariners, the other day, he perfectly lost, moreover, the genius got two hits from the monster.

After the game the monster must swear to take revenge on the Mariners especially Ichiro and wait for the day of revenge. From the beginning of the game, he was shutting the Mariners' batters out. It seemed like his revenge was going to be complete. When Matsuzaka almost accomplished his aim, the genius calmly stopped the monster violently acting on the mound. Ichiro got a big hit at very end of the game. Consequently, Matsuzaka succeeded to take revenge on the Mariners perfectly except on Ichiro.

Another revenger was in the stadium. It was me, Keita. Fortunately, when I watched the Mariners' game vs the Red Sox the other day, the pitcher of the Red Sox was Matsuzaka as well.

However, I had stayed far away from players during the whole game and took pictures of Matsuzaka and Ichiro just as small as a piece of rice: in the stadium, you can move to a closer place to the players, though you can not take different seats from the one showed on your ticket. I was looking forward to a second chance to take pictures of them since I failed at the first chance. Through my strong desire, as a result, I, unlike Matsuzaka, completely succeeded in taking my revenge on the game.

On the same day, two people swore to take revenge but for each the result was different. One perfectly succeeded but another could not. I am sorry to Matsuzaka that only I succeeded, but I can not support him because all of us, Matsuzaka, Ichiro, and Keita, have to live in the professional level of world. Some win and some lose. That is the rule of professional world. Cheer up, Matsuzaka. You can do it next time!