Hello all! First, I shall warn you, I have had much too much coffee. I'm currently typing quite fast actually. I'm impressed with myself. My week has been somewhat unadventurous, with the delightful side-quest of going completely insane. It rains quite a bit here. And I have yet to get an umbrella. Which leaves me trapped in my box quite frequently. Though I haven't gone so far down the slope of madness to start downloading porn for amusement's sake, it's come close.
Earlier in the week I had a nice little experience that nearly resulted in a concussion. I thought I'd take a bath in my deep little bathtub made for munchkins. Since I like the water very hot, and the room is a bit small, I guess the steam was more than I'm used to back home? I must have gotten up slightly too soon, and then opened the doors even more too soon, because the rush of cold air sent me right over the edge of the bathtub face first. I ended up with several scrapes and bruises, and knocked my head on the sink. It was the closest I've ever come to actually passing out before. Not exactly my most graceful moment. And now I'm even more leery of onsens. Nightmares of gym showers in the states notwithstanding.
I have had the opportunity to walk around my little city, and I managed to find the post office! I was very pleased with this success. Now if only they would give me mail that I could actually read without emailing pictures of it to my native consultant a.k.a. IC and asking if it's important. I'm not sure it really matters though, since tomorrow I can legally drive my cute little demonically possessed car, and will probably kill someone. Hopefully no one too important. Like me.
Today I went into Sendai with my British friend Tom, and we got slightly lost but managed to find ourselves eventually. Sendai is a really nice city, though the wind was not. Especially since I left my coat at home. There are a couple of neat little places to get a drink, and there's one British type bar thing that had really good coffee. I had about four cups. Then some more from the vending machines. Hence my current sleepless state. Then we managed to get on the wrong train back, but it was headed in the right direction so at the last stop the really nice driver people told us where we needed to be to get home. That was exciting. In a cold way. Since it was about 10:30 at night. Fun times. Next time anyone near Sendai should give a holler, so we can get a group together. I'm going to attempt to go to Ishonmaki or whatever the hell it is tomorrow, if there's anyone remotely near there and wants to go with me.
I haven't managed to get out and see more than a few places in my town, what with the weather being so finicky, but I have yet to see anyone resembling a live foreigner. My ICs told me another ALT will be moving in to the apartment beneath mine sometime this week, though. My current neighbor, who just moved in, seems to be quite fond of ripping the furniture off the walls and throwing it around. That, or he can't stay in the damn bed. All the thumping that goes on over there he must have a hell of time with falling out of it. That, or he's keeping a really large rabbit as a pet.
And now I'm rambling. This is me going away.
Though I'd just like to say that I still have no idea where my schools are. I really need to figure that out soon.
No comments:
Post a Comment