Strange things are afoot at the circle- uh, Japan
Trip Start
Jan 27, 2008
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Trip End
May 31, 2008
Hirakata,
Japan
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
This weekend I didn't do to much. I caught a cold so I had a little adventure to my local - and by local I mean an hour busy ride over to territory that I know - kusuriya, or drug store. I spent about 20 minutes looking at all the cold medicine before choosing one of the children's medicines that had all the pictures of the sneezing and coughing anpan-man. I got peach flavored, it's pretty tasty and it works fairly well. I went over to the Kansai Gaidai area to hang out with my friends that are still in the Seminar house. We made cookies and takoyaki and went to the store.
Had a little bit of trouble with the buses, got on one that said it was headed to Kansai Gaidai, because where I wanted to go was only a few stops afterwards. As it turns out all buses stop at Kansai Gaidai but right after that stop they go off in all manner of different places. About five stops after the kyukyu (99cent store) I realized that hey, maybe this isn't the right bus. An hour later in the middle of nowhere in the hills surrounding the valley that I life in I realized that yep. I was definitely on the wrong bus. I eventually did get back to Hirakata stations and from there got on the correct bus and took it to the seminar house.
We spent the rest of the day shopping and avoiding the snow. It was fun.
Last night was surprising. I came home and my okasan was talking about how she felt funny and she was apologizing for getting sick because she doesn't get sick often. She asked me to bring her the phone and the next thing I knew she was calling an ambulance for herself. I had to call my host sister and the go flag down the ambulance which didn't come to the correct house. They then proceeded to ask me a bunch of questions in very fast Japanese, no doubt in some form of keigo-esque patterns. I didn't understand anything thing the asked me.
One of the more disturbing facets of the whole situations is that the ambulance waited around the corner until someone could provide the EMTs with Okasan's insurance information and medicine. I was able, after frantic searching, to find the medicine, and eventually I did find Okasan's insurance card but luckily Misa came home then and was able answer everything.
Okasan is okay, it was Hyperpena or frantic, uncontrollable breathing. It was scary for a little while but she came home later that night. Great birthday present, huh.
Okay, well I got to go to class now, so I shall update more later.
