Leaving Sucks

His name is Yasunobu. He stands 6'4 and weighs somewhere between 250 and 300 pounds. I met him just before he left Hagi to join the Japanese military, but has since quit once he found out they no longer use Medieval weaponry. I thank God every day that I was born in the 20th Century instead of around 1100 A.D., otherwise I would've seen this guy ending my life on a Medieval battlefield swinging a war hammer into my face.

I dug into my bag of tricks and whispered to a Japanese friend that Yasunobu looked like Biff Tannen from Back to the Future, which was followed by an immediate uproar. For the rest of the night we called him Biff, and I was amused as our Japanese friends struggled with the tendency to add the extra syllable at the end of every foreign word. They called him 'Biffu.'

He came back to visit Hagi only for Golden Week vacation, so I will probably not see him again before I leave. He is one of the many people it will be hard to forget.