On Tuesday and Wednesday nothing out of the ordinary occurred. But on Thursday my Japanese class went on a field trip to a park to look at the blooming cherry blossoms. We also had to write haiku about the experience. My haiku got heavily praised by the sensei that graded my paper. X) The sensei passed out sweets and it was a pretty nice trip. Friday was busy but uneventful.
Saturday was a field trip to Hida-Takayama. There were a ton of shops and I purchased a wind chime for my wind chime collection. It was up on a mountain so it was snowing on and off which made yours truly quite happy. :D There was also a preserved village of traditional Japanese houses, very cool.
Sunday my host mom, a couple of her friends, and I went to Nagoya Castle to look at the cherry blossoms and take part in two tea ceremonies. I was really fun. One of my host mom's friends bought me roasted chestnuts! It was the first time I'd ever had them and they were tasty indeed. :d We had lunch and then went home.
Monday was largely uneventful. Tuesday was the same except on the way to school I saw a group of construction workers doing stretches together outside. It was so epically Japanese. :3
Today I had to do a physical because all students who are going to be at Nanzan University next semester have to do one. It was on campus. I ran into a girl who is in my history of tea ceremony class and we stood in all the long lines together. It took forever because all the freshmen were doing it as well on this day. My x-ray went smoothly except the guy saw my hair which is very long and said, "Doushiou...?" Loosely translated to, "What should I do?" It couldn't be in the way of the x-ray so he didn't know what to do with it. It was adorable, but I just did what I did the last time this came up and laid in on my arm. I had to bend my knees to line up right with the thing, guess their usual patients are shorter than me. The girl I was with ran into a problem when it was time to take her x-ray. Her blouse had a medal clip in it that was part of the design. The technician told her it wouldn't work, that she had to take it off. Well she was horrified about being naked from the waist up in front of the male technician (don't blame her). So I lent her my shirt. I put on my jacket, zipped it up, and squirmed out of my long sleeved tee-shirt and gave it to her. I then held up her jacket in front of her while she put it on (would have used my jacket but seeing as I had literally nothing on underneath it...). She was so grateful but I said not to worry about it. It was a rather poor set up and we hadn't been told to bring a tee-shirt with us or anything. I just fortunately happen to always have on a tee-shirt like shirt on. We had to remove any under layers and leave just a loose shirt on to take the x-ray of our lungs (to make sure we don't have TB). I just had this type of x-ray in December so I could COME to this country and now I am having to do it again less than six months later. I was ticked off the first time b/c they are other less irradiating ways to check for TB. Japan is so freaking x-ray happy; it really is no good at all. I'm going to start glowing if this continues at this rate...
The rest of the exam went well but altogether (because of all the people) it took almost two hours. I am back home now and I have a bunch of homework to do as per usual. Hopefully I will be able to keep up better with these entries from now on.
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