welcome back well in my previous video I
was talking about possibly getting my
wife to accompany me to join me on the
program and will still see will still
see i'm still trying to convince her
we'll see if she decides to come on but
i thought i would give a little bit of
taste of how we met
so maybe we can talk more about about
that if she decides to join me here but
this is just a really quick introduction
of her and how we met
so when I was a i was living in a small
town in nagasaki prefecture and
prefecture is like a state from America
so i was living in a different city but
in nagasaki prefecture still and i would
go down in Nagasaki occasionally just
you know too because it was a big city
to go see a movie or go shopping or
something like that just to do something
interesting and on i think one or two
occasions my wife actually you may know
she didn't know me at the time but she
saw me a couple of times down in
Nagasaki before actually you know
getting introduced to me and I think she
was sitting one time the one time she
really remembers is when she was sitting
in a starbucks and it's a at a mall
called us I toe in Nagasaki Japan if
you're familiar so you can go there
today and see the starbucks it's got
really big windows and if you're sitting
there you can look out there's a fairly
large intersection with a few different
crosswalks so she saw me waiting there
and cross the street probably going into
the mall so she didn't say anything but
she remembers seeing me there before we
actually met so I thought that was
pretty cool so she noticed me first yeah
anyway so maybe not that long after that
I think this is a couple of months after
that I was opening up a restaurant in
omaha with a couple of people and I was
just like helping to design it and you
know starting to do a little like help
like serving and other things like that
and she came to the Christmas party that
we have there and I thought that was
like really interesting so she died like
maybe for no reason but just remember
how she knew we were having a Christmas
party but we were advertising it
somewhere and she came with two of her
friends they were doing all three of
them
a local radio show and I remember when
we first met I was talking with her and
trying to like slightly still so the
word slide just means like kind of
Tripoli trick tricky kind of sneakily
trying to get her phone number because
her friends the three of them they're
doing the radio show this is about
international topics and international
food and other things that are related
to just for income foreign countries are
people coming from foreign countries so
they would have a radio show where they
would talk about people traveling from a
different country and have a person on
their program and talking about that so
they invited me to be on the show
because i had come to japan i was doing
the teaching but i was also teaching
english but i was also coming primarily
to do japanese garden so I was talking
with them about that and they were
saying you should be on the show I said
fantastic and I was talking to two my-my
then or you know I didn't know we're at
that point but I so I was talking with
my wife and I was saying he what's your
name and she said Tina and I said wow
that's an interesting name for a
Japanese woman I didn't think that was
like a real name and so I don't know
what's your real name what's your real
name and she said to me so ter um I
and I thought that was a really cool
name I never heard that name before
especially for Japanese people so is
that all that's a really beautiful name
and so I was talking with her but her
friend was was like hey like let me get
your phone number so we can contact with
you about being on the program and kind
of like getting in between this
conversation that I was having with
tattoos I call a 24 short so when I was
having this conversation with her and it
was really funny I was like trying to
talk with her but the other friend was
like he talk to me talk to me and size
it okay like I'll give you my contact
information but then i was finally able
to contact her because my Japanese is
not very good at that point and it was
actually pretty funny being on that
program because I was really really
nervous about it so I ended up after the
meeting or after like that party we had
I join them on their radio show a couple
weeks later and
I remember after the radio show i turned
to her and I said hey do you want to go
get some food
would you like to get something to eat
and I think it was maybe like eight or
nine o'clock at night and the radio show
went pretty well I was there for about
maybe 15 minutes and talk with them
about gardening and some of the
interesting things I had seen about
Japan like going to a pet store and
seeing a pet back and I think I like so
the bat was hanging up in a little cage
and I like poked his foot and just
kind of like pet his foot a little bit
and he peed on me I remember like
describing that story and I thought that
was really really odd but anyway so
they're interesting pets in Japan but so
I asked her hey would you like to get
some food and she said fantastic and
then of course she tells her other
friends like hey drew wanted to get some
food and I was like oh no like I met you
know going out with you so I could go go
get some food with you and she thought
that was you know a little bit and I
guess she didn't really think much of it
but I was like oh you know so I was
sitting there my Japanese is not very
good it's her and her two friends and
the father of one of them so I don't
know how he came but I think he was
picking everyone up and so he came and
got everyone and we were all sitting
there and I was just kind of sitting in
the corner and I had no opportunity
really to talk with to do at that time
so she was you know enjoy the
conversation and I was just like oh well
all right well maybe I get a chance to
do this another time so I still had her
phone number and I remember after going
to the train station this is a little
bit embarrassing but I'm going back home
I and so we're riding like in the
car and I get dropped off at the train
station and I'm riding back in the train
after she's going home so we're you know
she's living near Nagasaki and I have to
take the train all the way back up where
I was and I remember saying to her like
you know I was like hoping to have it
like kind of a date you know like
actually go out and talk with you
personally without having your friends
there and she was like oh I had no idea
you know so i said and this is like the
embarrassing thing I mean I felt like I
don't know why I said it at the time but
I was typing and I was
like why don't you come up to my place
and I'll cook you dinner and I'll give
you a massage and I can't believe i
wrote that too I was like very forward
about it you know and it's one of those
things like you don't want to tell your
mom and here I am like telling the story
in front of a bunch of people on YouTube
but anyway like so this is ten years ago
and like I would have done it again
though you know why not and so I think I
was feeling very like I was feeling very
confident at the time and I didn't
really think like well if she thought
that was weird or crazy or maybe you're
looking at that like whoa that's like
kind of creepy you know I didn't really
care i was like yeah she's like a nice a
nice girl i thought but I was like I'm
just gonna try this anyway and see what
happened
and of course she wrote me back she said
you know you sound kind of dangerous i
don't think so
fuck this size like okay well I guess I
blew the opportunity and this is a great
phrase it just means you made a mistake
or you mess something up to blow an
opportunity so I had an opportunity to
try to take it a little bit more slowly
but then i blew it so when people talk
about making a mistake or you know
having some problem like that like I
blew it
I blew it with her so actually a couple
days later i got an email from her again
and i think i was you know spending time
with a friend of mine and so I got an
email from her that said like hey you
know how are you like thanks for the
radio show and was asking if I wanted to
meet and I said yeah sure where do you
want to meet because i was really
surprised i thought when she said I was
dangerous that you probably wouldn't
want to meet me again so she said okay
like can you meet me and my two friends
from the radio show they're like they
wanted to meet you and hang out with you
again and so I thought I said oh no like
this is going to be the same situation
from before I understand why she wants
to have some friends of hers with her
but I said look I'm interested in you
and like I'm going to be forward about
that in the same way I was for about
eight come to my house and i'll give you
a massage or whatever like I actually
didn't expect her to say yes but I just
wanted to say it you know just to see
what would happen but I was talking with
her
I i said if you want to have your
friends come with me i'm not going to
come so I said look you guys go have fun
do what you want to do like do your
thing and if you want to spend time with
me then let's do that but I can't go
with you and it's just gonna be another
like I was at the dinner with you and
then she was like okay fine like you and
I can just go do something together and
so we actually met up and we had a
fantastic date and we spent like the
whole day traveling around the city and
doing all kinds of stuff and then the
rest is history and maybe we'll get to
tell you the rest of that story like
four different different parts of it but
anyway that's how we met
so I was working at a restaurant and she
came to the restaurant and we had kind
of hit it off there and this is another
great expression that just means to
connect with someone to hit it off and
you can use this in a personal
expression with someone or you can use
it in a more professional thing like I
hit it off with my colleague at work or
other situations like that anyway I
don't want to give you too much
information but i just thought that was
funny hopefully hopefully you don't
think I'm too dangerous or crazy because
i'm asking this woman are saying he like
i'll give you a massage it would have
been a good massage
I didn't say anything about oils and all
that just you know like a nice friendly
massage
anyway that's it for this video we'll
see where this journey continues but i
thought i would just tell you a little
bit about that and we'll see if maybe we
can wrangle her get her onto the program
anyway to make a comment down below if
you would like to meet my wife and have
you know she's a fantastic woman and we
have a lot of fun raising our daughter
as well but hopefully the journey is
many interesting so far
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