December 25th, 2007
Christmas!
Got up around 9 or so, and started right in reading the latest book. I finished it around 3pm. Somewhere in-between, I did a load of laundry. A very small load, so that I could use the dryer instead of hanging it out.
I also rode to Happy Town. Yes, folks, my Christmas dinner had a big “M” emblazoned on the top and suspiciously resembled a Big Mac value meal. Bicycle traffic was pretty heavy at the time, since it was lunchtime at the university and classes had just let out. Yes, classes were in session today. Just to drive the point home, Y-San called me around 2 to tell me when my pay would be available. Yes, she’s working today too. My pay will be available tomorrow after 3pm. Unfortunately, I will be long gone to Kyoto by then, and when I return, the school will be closed until the 7th. I hope they don’t lose my money in the meantime!
While at Happy Town, I picked up some groceries, but more importantly, some stuff to take along with me tomorrow. A couple of bottles of pop and a box of cookies for the ride might be nice, if not, they’ll wait until needed at the hotel.
I played a bit on the computer and then watched TV for about two hours. They had some kind of celebrity impersonation contest where after the impersonator finished their act, the real person would come on and perform with them. It was pretty funny. TV has to be pretty obvious and mindless for it to be funny enough for me to watch it for two hours when I don’t even know what they’re saying. You’d think by now my Japanese should be good enough to at least understand what they are talking about, but I really don’t think I am any better at listening to most conversations than I was the day I arrived.
So what is the plan for tomorrow? That’s a good question, and I really don’t have much of an answer. I’ll leave here a little after 7:00 am, and arrive there between 11:00 and 12:30, depending on how smoothly the train transfers go. Check-in time at the hotel is at 1:00, so I plan to be there then to drop off my stuff. I have a couple of travelers guidebooks that I will read on the train on the way there, and once I get there, I will wander around a little bit to see how the town works. They have buses, sure, but they also have subways. I have bus and subway maps, but they’ll still need a little bit of deciphering in order to get where I want to go. Some of the more important landmarks are pretty far from the hotel, so I’m going to have to take some kind of transportation to get around. But other than packing well, I really haven’t done much planning of what I will do after arriving there.
I jut checked over the dates and schedules for everything, and I see the library will be closed this Saturday. I thought they would be open, but they aren’t.
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