i think i'm being slowly poisoned
it seems to me that quite often i find myself sitting at my desk at toyoura junior high school, feeling sick to my stomach, with a foul (bathroom cleaner-like) taste in my mouth. i glance suspiciously at the bottle of water beside me and my mind wanders...
tsunamis and earthquakes are spinning in my head. my teachers are all having me do 'tsunami' lessons for my kids, showing them my before and after pictures from thailand... on top of that it's the 10 year anniversary of the kobe earthquake which was japan's most deadly in...oh, i don't know how many years. so the press is filled at the moment with documentaries and memorials...
and there was another earthquake here in niigata last night. no where near as large or lethal as the one back in october - i think this one was a 4.6 or something.
i'm feeling very uninspired at the moment...
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/specials/0501/0116alt.html here's a pic of me playing with my cell phone while all the other supporters are screaming their hearts out (i think i was trying to take a pic?)
tsunamis and earthquakes are spinning in my head. my teachers are all having me do 'tsunami' lessons for my kids, showing them my before and after pictures from thailand... on top of that it's the 10 year anniversary of the kobe earthquake which was japan's most deadly in...oh, i don't know how many years. so the press is filled at the moment with documentaries and memorials...
and there was another earthquake here in niigata last night. no where near as large or lethal as the one back in october - i think this one was a 4.6 or something.
i'm feeling very uninspired at the moment...
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/specials/0501/0116alt.html here's a pic of me playing with my cell phone while all the other supporters are screaming their hearts out (i think i was trying to take a pic?)
posted by Justine at 8:39 p.m.
14 Comments:
that's a bit worrisome. what could be causing that foul taste in your mouth?
j..
jeff thought he felt an earthquake lastnight, but i was in a rolling chair, i thought about how it would suck if we had a quake while it is so cold. did you see the picture in the japan times of the snow children they had built as a memorial to those who died in Kobe? sometimes i think that japanese painfully lack creativity and other times i am baffled by the amazingly beautiful and creative things done on a huge scale by beauracratic government offices.
see you soon,
natalie
those snow children are very eery
they remind me of the buddhist cemetaries here, with a section dedicated to aborted fetuses. u know the ones i'm talking about - the ones that have little bonnets. the unborn children are being honoured, because if they are not honoured their ghosts are said to come back and torment their families...
the quake was in tochio? don't megan and yara live there?
nat,
are you going meet up with the girls in niigata tonight? kat's driving me in around 6, so i'll have about an hour and a half until i've gotta split. starbuck's?
Justine: Is that you holding your cell phone and entirely covered in a Parka?
mj,
'mum' is actually esther's mum. OUR mum is in india - and i can't imagine her running to a computer every 5 minutes to check my blog whilst away - can you?
mireille, yes, that is me in the big parka in the picture. mum's in gone to pakistan to meet wendy then they're going to india. she'll be gone for about 3 weeks. with bob as well. should be quite the trip.
j-chan,
another wet cold day in niigata city, Yes, Yara and Michelle live in Tochio, i'll email them, it was a pretty small quake though, there was another yesterday at 3ish 6.8, but it was off of the east coast of Japan, underwater, i was thinking on the crammed-full bus today, as the air was being sucked away, slowly, but with a perverse certianty, that there are so many places in this city it would suck to be, if a real quake happened. a packed bus, for instance.
i woke every hour on the hour lastnight feeling refreshed each time,
i love the gym!! i am glad we are going again.
HOW WAS YOUR DATE?
xoxo
natalie
n-chan,
glad you are feeling refreshed. how WAS the gym yesterday? i would kill to know what all of those JP boys say about us when we leave. how odd we must look -three mammoth gaigin amongst tiny JP boys all trying to get BIG.
i thought it was touching though highly amusing that yoshi called me after the tsunami. what was he going to say? "tsunami. daijobu desu ka?" did you hear the hilarity of our conversation on monday?
yoshi: "watashi no (telephone hand motion, point to me)"
me: ah yes! you called me (pointing to my nose)
yoshi: "tsunami. tai". (pointing to me) "okei desu?"
me: ah yes! watashi no daijobu desu. watashi no RUN desu. watashi no tomodachi daijobu desu. arigato gozaimasu!"
yoshi: okei okei!
mj, est: shez is getting married??????
HA HA JEFF I LOVE YOU!
OK! Im here! satisfied Justine?
Id like to point out to the readership, that Justine has hassled me for 2 days now to comment, in fact, she was SO desperate she actually made a blog for me in order to post. Fancy that eh?
(is this funny Justine? Should i change anything? Am i making this funny enough for the people back home?)
Cant wait to go snowboarding...are any of u Shib lot buying our own stuff? I think i should, but i wanna buy an ipod tomorrow when the cash rolls in...what's more important now? SNowboarding, or looking and being cool with my ipod..i wanna join the masses, man im SO unoriginal.
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yes it's true, i was a pest to kat until she posted...
Sorry for the confusion, Marijke.
Justine, I'm very curious about the comment that has been removed by the blogger???
from Esther's mum - just in case Nicolas is reading this too.
Justine and Esther, us passive bloggers are waiting for more compositions to react. We can't keep adding comments to old musings.
i'm with mum, get to work ms. j bean, we need new insights to inspire our passionate response, now that you have us here, you must satisfy or appetites!!!
xox
natalie
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