Today was equally eventful as yesterday, however, I am much more tired than yesterday. As I mentioned earlier, I have been awake since 3 am. That means I have been concious for the past 16 hours.
First order of business was once again a shower. It is very humid here, in fact it is very warm every day. The weather is perfect. So far it has been cloudless and somewhat hot, but always with a nice breeze.
After our shower, we ate a quick breakfast of rolls with butter and some pocari sweat. Then we headed out to go to church. We expected to find some more breakfast along the way as the church was a very long ways away. We got about half way there before admitting that there was in fact no hope that we were going to find it.
Just before we decided that we were lost, we were stopped by a local who apparently wanted us to come to his beauty shop (hair/make-up/ect.). We took his card, but I doubt that we will go there. But, this was our first encounter with a local who wasn't required to care about us.
As we came home, we found that there was a grocery store about 2 blocks from our dorm (much better selection than Lawson's). We bought some icecream as it is easter, 2 hamburgers, lots of discount onigiri, noodles and some spagetti sauce. Until tomorrow, we still don't have any cooking utensils, but it is good to start getting some of the essentials now.
After eating the 3 pack of onigiri (seaweed, hamfried rice and pickled cherry flavors) and almost dying of grossness, we set out to find the Nishi Park. It took us about 5 mins. We passed 2 shrines on the way, the bigger of the shrines makes a sqwaking sound as you drop money into the prayer box.
The Nishi Park is more of a forest trail than a park. It has several playgrounds within it, but none are visible until you are almost on top of them. The best part about this park is that no one actually goes into it. We were almost completely alone and therefore, not stared at.
We headed home for a quick study session (we still needed to learn the katakana before tomorrow). Then we went to the Ohori Park once again, as there was nothing else for us to do. There we say tons of children! We had missed them yesterday because we had fallen asleep. We also saw many gaijin.
The funny thing about the other gaijin is that they are all men. The other weird part is that they don't acknowledge our presence beyond giving us a double take as they walk by. However, one of the gaijin did stop us and we had a pretty pleasant conversation about the weather, why we are in japan, why he is in japan, ect. He was a rather loud speaker, but in the end it was rather nice finally speaking to someone other than Shelly. Even though I do love her dearly.
Lastly we went home, attempted to eat our discount onigiri (mine turned out to be okaka flavor which is fermented fish--I gagged and had to spit it out), asked when dinner was, got told that there was no dinner on sunday (or any other meal), pouted, went grocery shopping, bought lots of drinks, tasted some milk, bought a butter knife (which we definitely needed), got some salmon for making good onigiri with, and finally came home once again.
Now I am going to sleep. ^^
Oh, yeah and no one will accept my debit card. The internet says that the major store chains should accept my plastic, but so far no store has (including Lawsons, 7/11, ect.). I am starting to feel very upset about it. But there is a post office right across the street from us.
No comments:
Post a Comment