So...Yesterday, Jesse, two of his friends, and I were supposed to go to a baseball game at 2pm, but apparently the 20,000 person arena was sold out - i always forget that baseball is probably more popular here than in the states...so we went all the way to the stadium (at the end of the subway line), and then turned back.
considering our options, we decided to check out the Chocolate Factory, just outside town. Before going there, we had "The Buffet" at the station for lunch - i wasn't much up for a buffet, as I'm trying to cut down what I eat again...and, I've been there 3 times in the past 2 months, but one of Jesse's friends really insisted - so not a big deal. It's a delicious buffet...but the menu never changes....so maybe, we could at least try a different buffet next time. it's about $17 for a ton of really good food and desserts. very well worth the money if you're starving.
so after lunch, we go to the Chocolate Factory and it was the lamest factory i've ever been to. There was no chocolate. just vanilla wafer like biscuit cookies.
wtf
i guess they had some nice gardens in the courtyard...but it was pretty lame. and a big letdown, cuz really, the only reason i took the tour was to get a free chocolate at the end - even though, granted, yes, you could always just cut to the exit and BUY a piece of chocolate that would be cheaper than the tour admission price. but it's the principle of being able to receive a FREE piece of chocolate.
anyway, the place should be ashamed to call itself a chocolate factory.
haha, they also had rooms and rooms and rooms of "hot chocolate cups" from around the world from the 1800s. though if you ask me, they were probably tea cups from england from 10 years ago.
Sapporo's chocolate factory needs to visit Hersheys, Penn. Now, THERE'S a chocolate factory and amusement park worth the admission. :P
so that was the day.
o then we grabbed sushi at the kaiten place near our apartments - best spin table sushi there is!! and cheap too.
then we went to summer's to watch "W". The movie was ok. but i think it had pacing issues. and it couldn't discern itself as to whether it wanted to be a caricature of Bush's life, or an autobiography. It was O-K. Although, C.Rice's character was ABSURDLY ANNOYING - she was a worse caricature than an SNL skit by Britney Spears. OMG I wanted to shoot her. If anything, she was the sole reason that made this movie unsuccessful. though stone did get it right with josh brolin - he was pretty good. ha.
aight, that's my update. :)
-j9
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Star Trek
just came back from watching Star Trek.
really liked it!
Zach and Chris have amazing chemistry! yum =P
maybe i'll download an old Star Trek movie...seeing as how this was my first exposure to the "Star Trek experience", and i quite enjoyed it.
well, ... ok, i did analyze an old episode in Anthropology class once...but that was so long ago...and i did experience the "Star Trek Experience" in Vegas... so i suppose those count...
anyhoo,
tomorrow's agenda...try to wake up for lunch and a baseball game with jesse and his friend. monday i get a late start anyway...so i can sleep later, right??
(my attempt to update more),
j9
really liked it!
Zach and Chris have amazing chemistry! yum =P
maybe i'll download an old Star Trek movie...seeing as how this was my first exposure to the "Star Trek experience", and i quite enjoyed it.
well, ... ok, i did analyze an old episode in Anthropology class once...but that was so long ago...and i did experience the "Star Trek Experience" in Vegas... so i suppose those count...
anyhoo,
tomorrow's agenda...try to wake up for lunch and a baseball game with jesse and his friend. monday i get a late start anyway...so i can sleep later, right??
(my attempt to update more),
j9
Should I come back?
hey guys,
soo...
i'm thinking about going back to LA for a few weeks...maybe in the summer or xmas break.
kinda miss you guys! and LA life...and music video sets...and good hugs with my brother...=P
....i could probably use the recharge/refresh.
but is it a waste of time and money?
to go back home when home will always be there?
are all of you guys too busy?
will i have no one to go to disneyland and vegas and music shows with?? souplantations and video sets?
what should i do guys? should i come back for a short vacation??
:)
miss everyone,
-j9
soo...
i'm thinking about going back to LA for a few weeks...maybe in the summer or xmas break.
kinda miss you guys! and LA life...and music video sets...and good hugs with my brother...=P
....i could probably use the recharge/refresh.
but is it a waste of time and money?
to go back home when home will always be there?
are all of you guys too busy?
will i have no one to go to disneyland and vegas and music shows with?? souplantations and video sets?
what should i do guys? should i come back for a short vacation??
:)
miss everyone,
-j9
Monday, May 25, 2009
ask me questions...I'm at a loss about what to post anymore...
Well, quickie updates...
The sun now rises before 4am. And sets after 7pm. That's what you get when you don't have daylight savings.
Friday night, I stayed up til 4am talking with Olivia - bitching about work, etc. We opened the curtains and the sun was already out!! 4am! craaazy.
Oh, the minor work drama I had (though as it seems, it's that time of year where everyone is getting antsy at their work)...I had a VERY close panic attack outburst at a 10 year kid during lunch, and then suffered through a horrendous anxiety attack the rest of the afternoon - while sweating my pants off cuz the weather here decided to be UBER hot for just one day, and then go back to rain. My morning started off awful - I'm doing the Elementary School rounds this month - meaning I go to a different ES every 2 days - so it gets old and exhausting quite fast. And my commutes vary anywhere from an hour and a half to 5 minutes. This particular day, the school thought it was keen to give me the most vaguest directions to the most difficult school to find out in the boonies of Sapporo - so I was super stressed and late. And had to call my supervisor - which is always a last resort. And then at lunch, I asked some kid "Do. you. like. spaghetti. ? " cuz that's what we were having for lunch. And spaghetti is the same in Japanese (i think -- or anyway, ALL the japanese kids understand the word). And then this kid proceeds to HOUND me while I'm trying desperately to eat my lunch - immediately after a HORRENDOUS 15 minute DEATH-WAIT staring at my hot yum smelling food - because I had to wait for the damn teacher to just say ITADAKIMAS ALREADY! (in japan, no one can start eating until everyone is ready and you say, "i-ta-da-ki-mas" which means like "thank you for this food). anyway, i'm antsy, and starving, and stressed, and miserable from the heat, and angry, and tired. and FINALLY when the teacher says the magic word, and i try to start a very small simple conversation with the kid next to me - he hounds me for the next 20 minutes saying "do like go?" do you like go??? ho-ra, ho-ra??"
um...i have no idea what you're saying kid.
leave me alone.
i can feel myself breaking. usually i smile and grin cuz the kids are so cute...but today is just not the day.
and usually when i say i don't know or i don't understand - cuz i can't tell if they're speaking japanese or english or both...the kids just sort of look sad and let it go. but this kid wouldn't give up!
HO-RA HO RA!!!!!!!!!!?
WHAT!!!?? no leave me alone. i don't know what you're saying.
LEEEEAVE ME ALONE.
20 minutes later, the teacher finally decides to jump in and help...and turns out..in reply to my question about spaghetti, the kid was asking me if i like ghosts and horror movies.
~sigh~
i just about ripped the spaghetti out of my bowl and rubbed meat sauce all over my face - i was ready to go crazy on the kid.
that's the very condensed side of the story. haha
anyway, i had drama...everyones been having drama at work lately. buuut, only one day left for meee!!! yaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!
safe haven is soooooooo close....
then i won't have to do this again until feb. and then that thought hit me today on my one hour and a half commute...i won't have to do this until FEBRUARY.
wait...
that means...
I'm here...
until FEBRUARY.
and MORE.
AHHH!!
Am i sure this is what i want??
Well...i want to study Japanese more. I like getting paid to travel. I like having money to spend for a change. I think I like my job...still. (nervous look...)
nah, minor breakdown, but all is fine again.
ha.
and besides...going 8+ months without an attack...I'd say, that's pretty darn dandy of yourself janine.
=P
And uh...
hmm...
i never updated about Philippines -- well it was a great trip. AMAZING actually. I think it's where i want to go for my honeymoon - if I'm ever to have one. HA. we'll see. It'll be my..."I'm single honeymoon" - as it seems it's my inevitable destiny.
But everyone there speaks PERFECT english. EVERYONE. ok, well maybe the poor taxi drivers can only speak broken english. but even their country-folk broken english is better than 95% of Japanese people's english. that's crazy. sad and crazy.
The beaches were beautiful. I wish we went to the island where you could swim with 5 foot whale sharks (next trip!). the Rice Terraces were MAJESTICAL! MY GOD!!! I've seen several rice terraces in my day (Vietnam, China...) but nothing can compare to the ones in the Northern Philippines. It leaves you breathless. PURE beauty. AND, they're 2000 years old. And ... the longest underground river cave thing was O-kay. It reeked of BAT POOP all the way through. And once you got over the first thrilling minute of WOAH - I REALLY DOOOO FEEL like I'm on a journey to the center of the earth...you're like...o...great...it's more bat poop and melty cave formations.
but yea, the water was WARM as hell - it almost feels like a jacuzzi, but not uncomfortable. the weather was perfection. it was breezy and sunny and the water was warm warm warm. O and we went snorkeling - WAY better snorkeling then Thailand (sorry Tracy!) -- we saw BRIGHT blue starfish, and stripped fish and THE MOST beautiful intricate huge coral reefs....my my. beau-ti-ful.
O, new thought just popped in my head - going back to the work rant:
Today I got really mean in class too - i think I'm just done with ES for a while. I'm ready for it to be done. I'm tired of trying to teach the kids the "th" sound - of showing them 128 times how to stick their tongue OUT of their month between their teeth - and they think that keeping it IN their mouth BEHIND their teeth is the same thing. And then when ONE kid finally has the sense to TRRRRRRRRRRRRY it, o look! OMFG!!! You can ACTUALLY make the "th" sound!!! and NO, you don't look like an idiot! Jesus lord let's make a monument in glory of your achievement. And then you say "thirteen" again (repeat after me) and the kid loses it. SIGH.
Anyway, the kids at this school I'm at today and tomorrow - they've got no respect for elders - RARE in japanese schools. They just yap and scream and laugh and goof around - where is the discipline! (that i'm so used to seeing here!???)
i dunno, so i gave some kid a really nasty face and didn't half realize it - until the teacher saw it...and then she gave ME a nasty face. and then the rest of the lesson was awkward.
whatever.
haha
and...last week, Summer screamed at her kids, "you're an IDIOT!!!" - but that's quite common among the ALTs i guess. You start reaching your breaking points around this time. Or this time in your second year at least. And of course, the teachers neither the students understand you. but still, you feel kind of bad afterwards. Summer felt really bad. =(
Hmm...friends and I have started a Book Club - so far we've read Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle. And Saturday by Ian McEwan. Our first meeting about Tortilla Curtain didn't go over so well - there was a lot of arguing about immigration and socialism (between Summer - who lived in Manhattan Beach for a while, and Olivia who is from New Zealand). and there wasn't much discussion about the book ='(
it was ok.
I missed Saturday's discussion...it was yesterday - but I fell sick AGAIN over the weekend - i think it's my tonsils, so I'll go in Wed and get 'em looked at.
Our next book is Galapagos by Vonnegut.
I'm 2/3's through Cat's Cradle - and it's a GREAT AMAZING book -- so i gotta make sure to finish that in my downtime, WHILE i also continue reading the Sookie Stackhouse series.
which, btw, I'm not enjoying half as much as the Twilight books. hmm...maybe not even a third as much. =(
I'm disappointed. And I have 5 more books on my shelf to read through - just cuz I bought em - so i HAVE to read them now.
and uh...
hmmm
O, i've been going to the dentist like every 2 weeks here - they only fill one cavity at a time - and you have to come in once to get the mold and then another time to get the actual filling and then back again for another mold and then back again for another filling - i dunno...something about, so they can charge you for each office visit. but STILL, it's cheap as hell, and it's better dentistry than I've had in the states. I really like this guy - his english isn't amazing...in fact, it's quite limited, but he draws a lot of pictures and...u know, we get by with his broken english. anyway, so you know how i have this awful clicking with my jaw - and the pain that comes with it. constant pain that i've just endured cuz i didn't know a life without it - well the guy, at the end of my first filling was like, "hey, you have clicking, did you know that" and i was like "yup, i know" and...he was like "ok." and then like a month later, when we were all done with my fillings (only 2, plus a few little tips on the molars in the back), he was like "so does your clicking jaw hurt" and i said "yea...sad face" and he said "would you like me to fix it" and i said..."wait, you can do that???!" "and he said, yea, i'll take a mold and you can come in at the end of the week and wear the sprint i make you" (which in other words means, this sort of makeshift clear headgear thingy.
so low and behold, $50 later...i'm wearing this headgear thingy to bed each night - and it's strange and...might actually work...and the fact that is might work is strange and...scary. cuz it's very unusual for me. (and i realized, that all of this clicking and hurting of the jaw and moving it sideways and backwards and forwards whenever i wanna open my mouth wider than what a spoon of yogurt can hold; is most likely because of the stupid HUGE 90s headgear i had to wear when i was 10, to fix my overbite by which, it pulled my upper jaw backwards or something -- u know, it was one of those funky GEEKY ones that wrapped all around your head and fit into those awful metal tube-y thingies attached to your molers - sheesh). so yup...the first few nights it was tough - cuz what it's doing is holding my lower jaw forward - so that my jaw is more in line - and therefore, the tendons or plates or whatever aren't rubbing against each other. but...it's like holding your arm out in front of you for a really long time - the muscles get really tired really quick. and it starts to hurt if you don't move your arm down - that's what it was like for my jaw the first few nights.
and then...the first morning, cuz my jaw was in this whole new place it had never been before - i didn't know how to work it - so i couldn't chew my food - and for a second i felt incredibly sad for all the people who don't have jaws - cuz it's probably one of the most important muscle bone (whatever) functions we have - that we TOTALLY take for granted. If you can't chew your food, you can't eat! You're left slurping soup and IV tubes the rest of your life. it's horrifying!!! but of course, given an hour, and a few yanks and nudges back and forth - i put my jaw back to its wrongful place and ate my lunch.
o but yea, don't let others scare you about dentistry in japan - it's cheap and quite terrific. each filling only cost me about $15 bucks in the end. While a cleaning runs $22. Japanese people just have bad teeth - cuz apparently a lot of people just don't have insurance, OR...it's just not culturally important to them - they just don't notice (AGHAST!! i know! i don't know how a Japanese guy can NOT notice the second row of lower teeth behind the normal standard row, or the HUUUUUGE ASS SABERteeth growing practically out of their nostrils. or vice versus with the girl and then guy). but...that's just how it is. teeth aren't a big concern for people here. and they NEVER brush.
Mark has a gf with grey grey grey teeth - but she doesn't smoke. they're just grey cuz she's NEVER brushed or flossed her teeth ONCE in her whole life. she's 28 i think? Mark asked her why...and she said, that's just the Japanese way...you don't go to the dentist unless your teeth are falling out.
yucky.
ok well...I meant to post less than this. but i just started rambling.
anyhow, ask me some questions, so i have some topics to write about.
sorry this post went back to work again - but you know, it takes up the bulk of my week here.
Fill me in your lives!!
<3 j9
The sun now rises before 4am. And sets after 7pm. That's what you get when you don't have daylight savings.
Friday night, I stayed up til 4am talking with Olivia - bitching about work, etc. We opened the curtains and the sun was already out!! 4am! craaazy.
Oh, the minor work drama I had (though as it seems, it's that time of year where everyone is getting antsy at their work)...I had a VERY close panic attack outburst at a 10 year kid during lunch, and then suffered through a horrendous anxiety attack the rest of the afternoon - while sweating my pants off cuz the weather here decided to be UBER hot for just one day, and then go back to rain. My morning started off awful - I'm doing the Elementary School rounds this month - meaning I go to a different ES every 2 days - so it gets old and exhausting quite fast. And my commutes vary anywhere from an hour and a half to 5 minutes. This particular day, the school thought it was keen to give me the most vaguest directions to the most difficult school to find out in the boonies of Sapporo - so I was super stressed and late. And had to call my supervisor - which is always a last resort. And then at lunch, I asked some kid "Do. you. like. spaghetti. ? " cuz that's what we were having for lunch. And spaghetti is the same in Japanese (i think -- or anyway, ALL the japanese kids understand the word). And then this kid proceeds to HOUND me while I'm trying desperately to eat my lunch - immediately after a HORRENDOUS 15 minute DEATH-WAIT staring at my hot yum smelling food - because I had to wait for the damn teacher to just say ITADAKIMAS ALREADY! (in japan, no one can start eating until everyone is ready and you say, "i-ta-da-ki-mas" which means like "thank you for this food). anyway, i'm antsy, and starving, and stressed, and miserable from the heat, and angry, and tired. and FINALLY when the teacher says the magic word, and i try to start a very small simple conversation with the kid next to me - he hounds me for the next 20 minutes saying "do like go?" do you like go??? ho-ra, ho-ra??"
um...i have no idea what you're saying kid.
leave me alone.
i can feel myself breaking. usually i smile and grin cuz the kids are so cute...but today is just not the day.
and usually when i say i don't know or i don't understand - cuz i can't tell if they're speaking japanese or english or both...the kids just sort of look sad and let it go. but this kid wouldn't give up!
HO-RA HO RA!!!!!!!!!!?
WHAT!!!?? no leave me alone. i don't know what you're saying.
LEEEEAVE ME ALONE.
20 minutes later, the teacher finally decides to jump in and help...and turns out..in reply to my question about spaghetti, the kid was asking me if i like ghosts and horror movies.
~sigh~
i just about ripped the spaghetti out of my bowl and rubbed meat sauce all over my face - i was ready to go crazy on the kid.
that's the very condensed side of the story. haha
anyway, i had drama...everyones been having drama at work lately. buuut, only one day left for meee!!! yaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!
safe haven is soooooooo close....
then i won't have to do this again until feb. and then that thought hit me today on my one hour and a half commute...i won't have to do this until FEBRUARY.
wait...
that means...
I'm here...
until FEBRUARY.
and MORE.
AHHH!!
Am i sure this is what i want??
Well...i want to study Japanese more. I like getting paid to travel. I like having money to spend for a change. I think I like my job...still. (nervous look...)
nah, minor breakdown, but all is fine again.
ha.
and besides...going 8+ months without an attack...I'd say, that's pretty darn dandy of yourself janine.
=P
And uh...
hmm...
i never updated about Philippines -- well it was a great trip. AMAZING actually. I think it's where i want to go for my honeymoon - if I'm ever to have one. HA. we'll see. It'll be my..."I'm single honeymoon" - as it seems it's my inevitable destiny.
But everyone there speaks PERFECT english. EVERYONE. ok, well maybe the poor taxi drivers can only speak broken english. but even their country-folk broken english is better than 95% of Japanese people's english. that's crazy. sad and crazy.
The beaches were beautiful. I wish we went to the island where you could swim with 5 foot whale sharks (next trip!). the Rice Terraces were MAJESTICAL! MY GOD!!! I've seen several rice terraces in my day (Vietnam, China...) but nothing can compare to the ones in the Northern Philippines. It leaves you breathless. PURE beauty. AND, they're 2000 years old. And ... the longest underground river cave thing was O-kay. It reeked of BAT POOP all the way through. And once you got over the first thrilling minute of WOAH - I REALLY DOOOO FEEL like I'm on a journey to the center of the earth...you're like...o...great...it's more bat poop and melty cave formations.
but yea, the water was WARM as hell - it almost feels like a jacuzzi, but not uncomfortable. the weather was perfection. it was breezy and sunny and the water was warm warm warm. O and we went snorkeling - WAY better snorkeling then Thailand (sorry Tracy!) -- we saw BRIGHT blue starfish, and stripped fish and THE MOST beautiful intricate huge coral reefs....my my. beau-ti-ful.
O, new thought just popped in my head - going back to the work rant:
Today I got really mean in class too - i think I'm just done with ES for a while. I'm ready for it to be done. I'm tired of trying to teach the kids the "th" sound - of showing them 128 times how to stick their tongue OUT of their month between their teeth - and they think that keeping it IN their mouth BEHIND their teeth is the same thing. And then when ONE kid finally has the sense to TRRRRRRRRRRRRY it, o look! OMFG!!! You can ACTUALLY make the "th" sound!!! and NO, you don't look like an idiot! Jesus lord let's make a monument in glory of your achievement. And then you say "thirteen" again (repeat after me) and the kid loses it. SIGH.
Anyway, the kids at this school I'm at today and tomorrow - they've got no respect for elders - RARE in japanese schools. They just yap and scream and laugh and goof around - where is the discipline! (that i'm so used to seeing here!???)
i dunno, so i gave some kid a really nasty face and didn't half realize it - until the teacher saw it...and then she gave ME a nasty face. and then the rest of the lesson was awkward.
whatever.
haha
and...last week, Summer screamed at her kids, "you're an IDIOT!!!" - but that's quite common among the ALTs i guess. You start reaching your breaking points around this time. Or this time in your second year at least. And of course, the teachers neither the students understand you. but still, you feel kind of bad afterwards. Summer felt really bad. =(
Hmm...friends and I have started a Book Club - so far we've read Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle. And Saturday by Ian McEwan. Our first meeting about Tortilla Curtain didn't go over so well - there was a lot of arguing about immigration and socialism (between Summer - who lived in Manhattan Beach for a while, and Olivia who is from New Zealand). and there wasn't much discussion about the book ='(
it was ok.
I missed Saturday's discussion...it was yesterday - but I fell sick AGAIN over the weekend - i think it's my tonsils, so I'll go in Wed and get 'em looked at.
Our next book is Galapagos by Vonnegut.
I'm 2/3's through Cat's Cradle - and it's a GREAT AMAZING book -- so i gotta make sure to finish that in my downtime, WHILE i also continue reading the Sookie Stackhouse series.
which, btw, I'm not enjoying half as much as the Twilight books. hmm...maybe not even a third as much. =(
I'm disappointed. And I have 5 more books on my shelf to read through - just cuz I bought em - so i HAVE to read them now.
and uh...
hmmm
O, i've been going to the dentist like every 2 weeks here - they only fill one cavity at a time - and you have to come in once to get the mold and then another time to get the actual filling and then back again for another mold and then back again for another filling - i dunno...something about, so they can charge you for each office visit. but STILL, it's cheap as hell, and it's better dentistry than I've had in the states. I really like this guy - his english isn't amazing...in fact, it's quite limited, but he draws a lot of pictures and...u know, we get by with his broken english. anyway, so you know how i have this awful clicking with my jaw - and the pain that comes with it. constant pain that i've just endured cuz i didn't know a life without it - well the guy, at the end of my first filling was like, "hey, you have clicking, did you know that" and i was like "yup, i know" and...he was like "ok." and then like a month later, when we were all done with my fillings (only 2, plus a few little tips on the molars in the back), he was like "so does your clicking jaw hurt" and i said "yea...sad face" and he said "would you like me to fix it" and i said..."wait, you can do that???!" "and he said, yea, i'll take a mold and you can come in at the end of the week and wear the sprint i make you" (which in other words means, this sort of makeshift clear headgear thingy.
so low and behold, $50 later...i'm wearing this headgear thingy to bed each night - and it's strange and...might actually work...and the fact that is might work is strange and...scary. cuz it's very unusual for me. (and i realized, that all of this clicking and hurting of the jaw and moving it sideways and backwards and forwards whenever i wanna open my mouth wider than what a spoon of yogurt can hold; is most likely because of the stupid HUGE 90s headgear i had to wear when i was 10, to fix my overbite by which, it pulled my upper jaw backwards or something -- u know, it was one of those funky GEEKY ones that wrapped all around your head and fit into those awful metal tube-y thingies attached to your molers - sheesh). so yup...the first few nights it was tough - cuz what it's doing is holding my lower jaw forward - so that my jaw is more in line - and therefore, the tendons or plates or whatever aren't rubbing against each other. but...it's like holding your arm out in front of you for a really long time - the muscles get really tired really quick. and it starts to hurt if you don't move your arm down - that's what it was like for my jaw the first few nights.
and then...the first morning, cuz my jaw was in this whole new place it had never been before - i didn't know how to work it - so i couldn't chew my food - and for a second i felt incredibly sad for all the people who don't have jaws - cuz it's probably one of the most important muscle bone (whatever) functions we have - that we TOTALLY take for granted. If you can't chew your food, you can't eat! You're left slurping soup and IV tubes the rest of your life. it's horrifying!!! but of course, given an hour, and a few yanks and nudges back and forth - i put my jaw back to its wrongful place and ate my lunch.
o but yea, don't let others scare you about dentistry in japan - it's cheap and quite terrific. each filling only cost me about $15 bucks in the end. While a cleaning runs $22. Japanese people just have bad teeth - cuz apparently a lot of people just don't have insurance, OR...it's just not culturally important to them - they just don't notice (AGHAST!! i know! i don't know how a Japanese guy can NOT notice the second row of lower teeth behind the normal standard row, or the HUUUUUGE ASS SABERteeth growing practically out of their nostrils. or vice versus with the girl and then guy). but...that's just how it is. teeth aren't a big concern for people here. and they NEVER brush.
Mark has a gf with grey grey grey teeth - but she doesn't smoke. they're just grey cuz she's NEVER brushed or flossed her teeth ONCE in her whole life. she's 28 i think? Mark asked her why...and she said, that's just the Japanese way...you don't go to the dentist unless your teeth are falling out.
yucky.
ok well...I meant to post less than this. but i just started rambling.
anyhow, ask me some questions, so i have some topics to write about.
sorry this post went back to work again - but you know, it takes up the bulk of my week here.
Fill me in your lives!!
<3 j9
Friday, May 1, 2009
Stuck in the Philippines?
An email from my supervisor...
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To everyone,
Some of you are going to abroad this week, but as you know the news says about the “swineflu” everyday. The latest news reported that in US Texas, California had recognized the infected person there. Korea , Canada ,too. the WHO announced the current condition is “phase 5” (their scale). *phase 6 is the alert of the “pandemic” and all moving of people between countries will be prohibited. They say we are in serious condition now.
Japanese ministry also announced in response to this WHO’s message, they’ve just started quarantine at the international airport (flight from US, Canada , Mexico so far…).
Please check the news all the time and update the information (especially about airport and flight info.)
My guess is that if this goes worse, the Japanese international airport (Narita, Nagoya, Kansai) will be so crowded and have influence on the over-sea flight schedule, (delay or cancel).
In case you find you can’t back on the scheduled date due to the flight delay or other problems, let me know soon. I’ll let your school know if necessary.
Best regards,
Ito
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Personally, I think it'd make for an awesome story if this N1H1 Flu reached Level 6 and we were 1) stuck in the Philippines for an undetermined amount of time. 2) quarentined in Korea (our layover)
I'd like to see Mr. Ito's face when I miss elementary school days - that he persistently reminded me NOT to miss, 3 times in 2 days. Heehee. (Don't say that out of meanness, it would just be slightly amusing)
Philippines are great. The weather is perfect - how'd we get so lucky! Not half as bad as we expected. We're in manila for the night. Waiting to go to Palawan.
I'll update again soooon.
-j9
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To everyone,
Some of you are going to abroad this week, but as you know the news says about the “swineflu” everyday. The latest news reported that in US Texas, California had recognized the infected person there. Korea , Canada ,too. the WHO announced the current condition is “phase 5” (their scale). *phase 6 is the alert of the “pandemic” and all moving of people between countries will be prohibited. They say we are in serious condition now.
Japanese ministry also announced in response to this WHO’s message, they’ve just started quarantine at the international airport (flight from US, Canada , Mexico so far…).
Please check the news all the time and update the information (especially about airport and flight info.)
My guess is that if this goes worse, the Japanese international airport (Narita, Nagoya, Kansai) will be so crowded and have influence on the over-sea flight schedule, (delay or cancel).
In case you find you can’t back on the scheduled date due to the flight delay or other problems, let me know soon. I’ll let your school know if necessary.
Best regards,
Ito
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Personally, I think it'd make for an awesome story if this N1H1 Flu reached Level 6 and we were 1) stuck in the Philippines for an undetermined amount of time. 2) quarentined in Korea (our layover)
I'd like to see Mr. Ito's face when I miss elementary school days - that he persistently reminded me NOT to miss, 3 times in 2 days. Heehee. (Don't say that out of meanness, it would just be slightly amusing)
Philippines are great. The weather is perfect - how'd we get so lucky! Not half as bad as we expected. We're in manila for the night. Waiting to go to Palawan.
I'll update again soooon.
-j9
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