Hey Hey

So right now I am listening to some nice ear listening music and I`d like to share!

Joshua Radin
The Dovekins
Starlight Ramblers
Emma Louise
Sarah Blasco
Joint Chiefs of Staff

We`re all telling stories now!

Who Knew

On a more happy note the hospitality of the Japanese people always is impressive. Just the other day I was at a grocery store and couldn`t read anything and so I was looking for dried fruit. I went up to the nearest person and just said excuse me he dropped everything and I was able to say something close to probably the english equivelent of `fruit...here..possibly..around and boooom bam zoom we were off. Everything that had to do with fruit he showed me.... regualar fruit... fruit drinks.... fruit soap.... even fruit squishy stuffed animals who knewwww! finally after much searching we arrived at the much anticipated dry fruit and I purchased with rapid speed. The check out lines are speedy as well and they actually count out the amounts to you. For example 2 oranges 200 yen.... one carton of eggs.... 300 yen. I`ve never seen such fast service!
So the other day I had a problem..... I could not go... The diet of Japan is quite healthy, but there is no wheat bread and I guess I had been eating a lot of eggs, rice, and curry and not much fruit. So there I was with a predicament. 3 minitues later I found myself playing a game of pictionary combined with sirades saying the english equivelent of .... stomach... hurts.... leave... fruit is healthy....and water..... hard.... and acting out the motions as so. Everybody in the Teachers office had their dictionary`s out as I sat in a squatted position going schowww with my voice and pointing down with my hands. They understood something was wrong and so I was permitted to leave. 10 min later I was there at the grocery store and now you know why I bought dried fruit and cranberry juice with such speed. The cranberry juice was quite easy to find. For the rest of the day my message to the world would read ``john`s current status.... really excited to shit! ohh man and I was and so I did lots of jumping jacks and lots of situps and went to a drug store and purchased medicine for the cause and in the end their was success! I hope to never have that problem again. Everybody eat your fruit daily in Japan!
Cleaning the bathroom used to be a task in my hobbit home. the ceiling is not the problem it is of ample height. It is actually the door frame and the low sink, which sometimes causes the most distress. bending over farther then usual is a task especially when cleaning and having to repeatedly wash the sponge out and resume, but now I have just discovered the prime de la resittaance! There is actually a drain under my sink as well as my bathtub so I can literally scrub everything down and then stand back with my shower hose and hose everything down! toilet, sink, bathtub and just wait a little for it all to dry... yokatttaa neeeee (that`s better) you want the Japanese too okay here you go よかった！

I`m telling you now

So would you like to know what my life is like right now? Okay I will tell you. Right now I am sitting at my desk in an office. Most of the conversation around me I don`t understand. I am slowly picking it up. Yes I do feel like a dog. My ears perk up every time I hear the word food or something about the weather. My brain switches on and my mind forms an answer and I respond and ponder its presence. Sometimes it`s as though I`m in a dream. I`ll be driving down the road thinking regular thoughts and then I`ll glance at a Japanese sign and my reality goes into cartoon mode. I`m like that character that stops and holds up a sign that says ``what`` on it and looks at the viewer like a deer in headlights. Yes this does happen often and still does. Man if I asked you to pinch me just to make sure what I was living was real I would have one sore pinching sore spot! So what do you want to know? Do you want to know what I eat on a daily basis? Okay I`ll tell you. The other night, now having the driving ability I sped away to the nearby grocery store. Now in the U.S I still do get quite lost in supermarkets especially if I`m hungry. ``ohh that looks good, but wait that looks even better!.... what was that over there....I`m gonna go check that out. Yeah this happens to me in the U.S. Grocery shopping is an adventure everytime. In Japan however, a whole new level is added. Now I go around and ask ``hmmm is that fish or beef....and that looks like noodles, but are they? First I have to figure out what I`m going to eat, what I want to eat and then I have to figure out if I can actually cook it and then I have to decipher the Japanese language. The whole experience is mind dazzling! You should try it sometime. It would probably be pretty funny if someone followed me around a Japanese grocery store. Sometimes I just look in the bakery and pick out some item that smells really good and I have dinner right then and there in the grocery store. I think to myself ``you know what if I`m going to get out of this grocery store at all I have to eat something`` and so I do. Ohh mann I have to go to class. I`ll finish this!