Fog, Hail, Freezing Rain, and Thunderstorms.

Apparently, last night there was a very loud, very close thunder storm.  I did not hear it, did not budge.  So I am not sure if it was truly a very loud thunderstorm.  Or if the thunderstorm here is not as loud and interrupting as ones on the Prairies.  But lots of people here kept telling me that they do not have them very often.  So they were all in awe of the power of the sky.

food!

It sounds weird, but I have yet to find a food here that grosses me out.  At least anymore than it does in Canada.  Still don't like handling raw meat, of any sort, but I'm getting over it.  It took me just under a month to find cheese, three weeks to find milk, and I just found canned fish.  I like to blame the fact that I am being overwhelmed by stimulus.  Way too many things to look at and try to decipher without looking like a fool.  I already stand out enough, I don't need to stare at one package cover to try and understand it for over a minute.

Please Enjoy the Fright

No the post is not about scary things at all.  More about the fact that with one letter is a nice phrase.  The title actually came from a J-Drama I watched for the sole purpose if it involving Hegei and different levels of polite speech.  Basically the character was supposed to say 'Please enjoy the flight" and they mess it up thus causing hilarity.

I giggled.  I'll admit that.

By Popular Demand

Why, hello all!  If I have been asked any one thing consistently by people, that's not 'How's Japan', it's 'What's your room like?" or something like that.  So by popular demand, and now that I kinda have a camera here's my room

1=1000

I was gonna post a long rant, but I am tired and still have homework and stuff for tomorrow.  So here's what the basis of the post was gonna be : blisters = pain.  I've had so many, I no longer feel them.  Allow me to demonstrate. 

"Om nom nom nom" - Cookie Monster

It occurred to me today that is the first time in my life that I actually have to look after myself.  I've lived away from home but never on my own before.  To anyone who has ever just upped and moved away from home, I applaud you.  If I'd done this my first year away, heaven knows what would have happened.  I think I would have survived but not as well.  But I do enjoy my own bathroom.  I also do not mind cooking for myself.  But I wish I could understand all the ingredients and instructions on the labels.

Abyss

I like to think that I always have something to talk about.  And I suppose I do, I just don't feel like subjugating those who take it upon themselves to be entertained by survival attempts to irrelevant childish banter.  As such I have abstained from ranting on this blog every chance I get.  I don't consider the content by any means to be 'articles' or 'thought out', but I refuse to submit to the view that a 'blog' should be random drivel.  That said there's is a lot I could rant about now but I won't.  Yet.  I have to save some things for later (not that I believe I will run out of things to talk about while being 3/4, or 1/4, ways around the world).

Dance Dance

Smiling and nodding can get you really far in a foreign country.  But be sure to know what you are agreeing to.  Tonight, I got to go see Japanese Traditional Dance.  It was really really cool.  But I had no idea where I was going when I met up with the people. 

Arrival Part 2

I made it all the way to Yamaguchi University :D yay!

It rained so hard when we arrrived that my luggage got soaked.  And of course it rained the day I chose to do laundry >> stupid air drying gonna take forever now (shakes fist at weather).

Thankfully they arranged for students to help the new arrivals to get into their rooms show us how things work (really hard to read power buttons etc when in kanji), and then walk groups of us to the suparmarket.  So I know where to buy food and stuffses.

I have devised a system for trying foods from the supermarket.  Go to aisle with add water stuff to it.  Pick something you haven't tried.  Works surprising well.  I have ran into some issues when it comes to preparations of foods.  I can't read all the fine details on the labels.  Thank God I know 入る means to put in and 分 means minutes.  That and most instant food still have some form of pictographs on them.

Right now, I think I will stick with attempting to survive the insane amount of rain.  Then I will worry about things like cell phones and money transfers from home.

Arrival.... part 1

I am here! officially in and get this immigrated to Japan.  That's right, I am immigrated, well I still have to do stuff when I get to Yamaguchi (that is assuming my student visa and college student status counts as immigration).  So I'm in the country just not at my final destination.

I have been up since 6:30 am local time Regina, and it is now 6:00 pm local time Tokyo, but I've only been up for 21 hours.  This proves time travel is real.  In 21 hours I have arrived 35.5 hours from when I began.  Awesome.  In those 21 hours, I have watched four full length movies, 8 shorts, been in the air for 12 hours. Been given a ton of water (and I'm still thirsty), eaten two breakfasts, three lunches and no suppers (if you count anything consumed and the time it was consumed at locally), I have seen four invisible Japanese fire hydrants, and driven on the wrong side of the road.

There is more I could say, tons more, and who knows, maybe I will come back on later and say more, but right now I desire rest.

Goodnight, (well good morning to most of you Canada people)