Wednesday was just one of those days...
First, I felt sick in the morning until I had 20 minutes to take a 30 minute walk. Then, when I went downstairs, I saw them...huge, fluffy flakes of snow. Now, because I was already late, I didn't bother to go get an umbrella or a sweatshirt with a hood because I'm from Iowa, and I walk out in the snow without a hood all the time! But I forgot that is only the distance from the car to the store. :P Thirty minutes without coverage from the snow...blowing towards my face...imagine how that might feel... having these huge pieces of snow land on your face, making your black coat look like the night sky and tumbling down your hair...now imagine after half the walk, your sock magically slides off half your foot. Oh, and don't forget that you're ten minutes behind schedule and if you're late three times it equals one absence. If you don't care about being late, then ignore this point; either way, snow in the face and a sock sliding off can be...rather unpleasant.
Anyway, I was a whole whopping 6-7 minutes late to class. My teacher looked very disappointed in me...but after the first few awkward moments, I was really enjoying my Reading and Writing Japanese 1 class, partly because I spent some time memorizing hiragana, and I felt pretty smart when I was able to name different characters....although I'm in the small group of students here that can't read hiragana haha
After class, my teacher seemed in higher spirits and asked if I missed the bus...I explained, and she seemed to understand...phew...
The rest of the day went by normally...
I've grown accustomed to going to the grocery store ten minutes away rather than the one twenty minutes away. The farther one is called Top World, and it's pretty good, but it's more expensive...the closer one, Sanko, is pretty good too and it has a 100yen shop inside, but you should never ever ever....even if someone threatened to replace all your music with Justin Beiber songs...eat the chicken at Sanko...I bought and ate some the other day, and it tasted pretty good. A few bites were mushy and tasted weird (it didn't look raw when I cut it)...I get to the last piece and find that about half of it is raw still... I immediately threw it away while trying not to think of the mushy bites I had eaten before. BLEH!!! My roommate then informed me that she got sick after eating chicken at Sanko...so it has been confirmed that the chicken there is very very bad...
But their fried shrimp is good...I've also gotten yogurt, cereal, milk, bread, peanut butter, deli sandwiches, donuts, oreos, crackers...and other food that I can find at home...so I think Sanko is still worth going to.
I would now like to inform you about the time I got lost...
Jessica showed me the way to the university. When my classes were over, I remembered most of the way back, and I get back most of the way and take a wrong turn and walk fifteen minutes until I find the park that is actually right across the street from my seminar house. I then wander aimlessly for another fifteen minutes or so looking around for my house when the street was right by the park. I then saw another foreign student and followed him to Seminar House 2. Then, I knew where I was going and went back the way I came and chose the right street...well, I'm glad that's over with...=]
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