I went to hospital with a fever. You would think that would mean that I had a temp of 108°F and was hallucinating, but no. I had a temp of 100°, and I went to the hospital. This is the norm in Japan appearntly, that when you are sick, you go to the hospital. yippie? only took three hours for them to stick a q-tip up nose to see if I have Influenza A, or as I know it, SWINE-OHMYFUCKINGGAWWWD-FLU. Luckily, the test came back negative, but because I had only had the fever for three hours, the doc said I should come back the next day, cause it could be too early to tell for sure. Low and behold, one day and another three hour wait later, the new doc says that because I had been taking Tamiflu, there was no reason to test me. The solution: treat it as if you have swine flu. Just to be safe.

And here I am, third day in. House arrest. Confined to my room.

Come Tuesday, when i am free, I wont want to leave! Its gonna be like Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption, I am too used to these walls! I wont know what to do on the outside!

Maybe I will become Hikikomori.... (see link) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori

Lunch

After baseball, if I don't have class (or I'm not going X_X), a couple of first year students on the baseball team and myself will eat lunch together. Most likely we are all still wearing our uniforms, quite sweaty, and exhausted. Lunch also has an unspoken routine: we put our shit down at an open table and head to the sink to wash our hands. We look at the display of food and muse out loud what we are going to eat. After we eat, we usually buy ice cream. Lastly (my favorite part folks), we rock paper scissors to see who will clear all of our trays full of dirty dishes. We never do this when I eat with other exchange students! Why is that? Personally, I think that ending lunch in this fashion adds some excitement to the meal.

On another note, please enjoy this commercial for the phone company that I am using

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyF5kNjGTO8&feature=related

Baseball... finally!

So here is our baseball team! 強そうじゃない？

Delayed

This morning I woke up at 7am like always and began to prepare for school. I got all my stuff together, noticed that if I was going to make my 7:46 train I would have to hustle. I ran down the street, up the steps of the station, and on to the plat form only to see that my train was non-existent! The station attendant announced that due to technical difficulties, the train I normally take was not running. This wasn't too bad, as I could take a different train and transfer once and still make it to school with plenty of time.

It almost seemed I would too, until I was two stops, 10 minutes away, and my train stopped. The conductor came on over the PA system and said that there was a train stopped in front of us and there would be a short delay. The conductor then continued to repeat the same message, for the next 45 minutes, while all of us on the hot, crowded, stuffy train stood waiting. It turned out that some traffic signal the at the station was messed up, and we had to get off at the stop before mine and take another train on a different line to get to it. Of course with no trains but this one line running to my stop, there were SO many people they were lined up down the stairs of the platform. I finally got a train, and made it in time for the last 30 min of my first class.

Normally my commute take 45-50min, give or take. Today took 2 hours.



Yuck