(labeling the posts with the ACTUAL date it is here in Japan since this blog won't let me change the time to what it is here...)
This morning we wake up to a less freezing house, since we were able to get the aircon/heater to work last night. After breakfast we hung up MORE laundry (this time, no spraying problems!) Then we see that the electrical people have come and they're doing…something to the utility poles. Hanging more wires or something. But the hilarious part is, as they're doing this, the guy on the ground feeding wires to his buddy above is just standing there smoking. Something about their work, and then watching him just stand around and casually have a cigarette was just really hilarious.
We also put out the moerugomi (burnable trash) today. On the days that the moerugomi goes out, these two black cats go nosing around, pawing at the green net covering the trash. It's so cute! Next time, I'll get a picture.
Yesterday we went to City Hall to get our alien registration card. We spent a good long time deciphering the ladies (Brad did, mostly, I just stared blankly trying to remember my governmental vocab). Amusingly enough, there are more Brazilians in the area, so the pamphlets are written in Portuguese and Japanese and very rarely in English. So, we managed to get health insurance and get the process started for the cards (we have to wait until the 27th or so to get the actual card, which probably means no phones or internet until then. Boo.
In any case, classes were interesting yesterday, I got a bunch of younger kids who know a lot less English. So that was fun. The NyQuil is amazing for getting to sleep, but not so amazing for the drowsy hangover the next day.
Today we intend to do some more shopping, then classes later.
That's it for now!
-Elaine
I love reading this! You write evry well!
ReplyDeleteMa.....
I heard a while back that there were a lot of Japanese ex-patriots and children of Japanese ex-patriots in Brazil. To help deal with the rapidly aging population, the Japanese government was encouraging them to move back to Japan but at this point many of them don't speak Japanese anymore.
ReplyDeleteAlso I hear you about the government office. I was very luck that my host mother worked there and helped me out.