He bought some seriously nice stuff, I got premade abalone, sharkfin soup, chinese sausage, chinese candies, spring rolls, dried duck meat... hmmmmmmm... better than eating at home? It was really nice getting used to waking up and having someone else cooking for me.... sniffles...
aghhh poor dad, he:s unused to sleeping on the floor and is scared at how empty my fridge is (I had just cleared it of food because I realized I wouldn:t be home much this week..) and I kept us both up the night before coughing and coughing.... he even woke up to boil me congee as I didn:t really have a kettle to boil water....
Needless to say, in his fear he pulled out his wallet and was like `we need to get you a kettle, micowave mugs, and rice cooker (as cooking with one burner is difficult enough)...` I:m so happy, he really bought me stuff to make it easier and more home-like... He quickly pooled his experience of living away from home into action (he had gone to boarding school in Northern Ontario for high school and went to school in Halifax, Hawaii, Vancouver and France, plus he:s a veteran traveller did you know hes gone to Israel before too? I didn:t.. crazy) hahahah... he was finally being full on dad and teaching me things... something I had little of growing up while he was on many long business trips and owning his own business working very late hours.
I had a short meeting today, met more people in my region... this is a really relaxing meeting.. man... I did more at church I think.. hahah sweet...
I went home and my dad cooked and shopped for LOTS of food, and we watched Hitch on my computer... which finally I have my power adaptor...
It was like `yeah dad`s here!! OHHHH my power adaptor!!!!! `snuggles power adaptor``November 1 - First day of the Autumn training seminar... a total of 4 areas getting together about like 60 people getting together in office attire for lectures about understanding children and living in japan put on by our peers. Some I was :fishing: in and others were fun with cool games... there were lots of demoing lessons too... Afterwards about 40 something of us went to an all you can eat/drink thing and I invited my dad as well.. here I got to work to get to know other people ... well at least i got ppl:s numbers.... While we were invited to stay in the company dorms that night because we were all meeting in nagoya, I went with my dad to stay in the hotel he got to stay closer to me. He ended up splurging for a night at the Nagoya Hilton... too bad I didn:t get to go swimming.. it was nice though.. to have some quiet from all the drunken coworkers... it was good to meet people but very overwhelming... and the impressions I got from people were well... difficult to gauge as most were quite high off the alcohol.
November 2 - more training seminar today, and walking in I could tell some people had some wild nights... hahaha.... I think after meeting all the people the night before... it really make me feel more relaxed about knowing that while its great to meet people I don:t need to feel pressured to find lifelong friends here... I mean I know, in the awesome emails I get from home and with my dad visiting, that my true family and life long friends are all in Vancouver (or... Canada I should say???)... Although this won:t stop me from meeting more people, but it doesn:t make me feel bad for not being able to connect with people or when I didn:t get some of the people.... what can I say, people that come to Japan are very wierd.... some are okie, but yeah often as warned by the osaka trainer previously, that most are just rejects from their origin... what can I say... people are nice, but not.... not... home. *hugs ppl at home*Met up with my dad and felt so tired, we went back to Gifu and he cooked dinner again... Of course he taught me a few things too to make my food actually taste like food...
We also had time to talk and just enjoy having some time together... we also went to the 99 yen store to buy some things... Im such a freak here... I get so excited buying things that make my apartment cleaner... I saw this air freshener that was actually for water. On contact of water it releases a pleasant smell... I was so excited when I saw it I looked at my dad and was like I have to get this (for my strange smelling shower drainage)!!!!! it was all good...
November 3 - Today is a national holiday we got off from work, Shannon came to stay with me and I met her at the station at 11am... my dad wanted to cook her and I a meal before he left today... I miss my daddy....
Today we did something crazy... we tried to do the sightseeing thing in Gifu, and went to see the castle which is on top of a mountain... we were asking some other japanese and they got the impression that we wanted to walk up to see it instead of ride the cable car up.... we looked up and thought, oh it can:t be that bad and we would save the money of not riding the cable car... Man!! Did it bring me back to the days of climbing the Chief... aghhh we were dying and all these old men and women were like power climbing it... the elderly live a long time in japan for a reason! I think we walked (desperately climbed grabbing rocks and roots of trees at some points) up for like an hour and half at least.... we were so sweaty and gross, and Shannon even lost her vest! Least to say we were happy to pay the 6 bucks to get back down... hahahah well it was good for us I guess I haven:t exercised in so long...
Now we:re just hanging out in the cafe again.. hmmm so many foriegners here tonight... must be because its a holiday today...
Its been good talking to Shannon about her experiences as I havent seen here since we arrived together at the Nagoya airport... Some of here experiences with people really make me think perhaps I need to be trying harding to meet people or something.. at the same time, I wonder if its just our differences in our abilities to do things? I:m not good with meeting many people and just picking it up and having lots of fun... perhaps I need to learn that too...
Whats next? ~~
I get a nice 4 day weekend then after a day of teaching locally I go on my business trip school to Takayama - some say its like a mini Kyoto... very touristy... I also heard the japanese teacher here is very nice too hopefully i get to meet her too... Many people have told me its a great school to teach at plus All living and travel costs are covered with a food allowance.
Picking up my alien registration card so that I can sign up for internet!!!! I can`t wait to get internet so I can catch up with ppl at home more.
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