March 9th, 2008
Went to McDonalds and had McBreakfast. I forgot about the bug I saw last week until halfway through today’s meal. Oops. Oh well, I survived. I got to the library on time and got my favorite Internet desk. I had a bunch of blog posts to make and a lot of email to answer, but I did not appear to miss anything crucial during my on-stop workweek. I don’t have any lessons to prepare, so I spent my post-chat time looking up things that might be useful in the future, such as getting an AAA Membership and getting an International Driver’s license. I don’t remember, but if anyone back at home still owes me a birthday present, a AAA membership would be a really good one, hint-hint.
Anyway, the library took about 4 hours of play time and research. Afterwards, I stopped by Maruzen and picked up a book for the kids. I had a choice of buying them each a book with one small story in it or getting them a large book to share. I went with the bigger book, since it’ll keep them busy longer. The book is full of classic Japanese children’s stories; it’ll be like fairy tales they’ve never heard before. I think they’ll like it, and it gives them an excuse for story time with their former favorite uncle. I think I’ll have to regain my old title as quickly as possible. I also have a few really small items from Happy Town for the kids, so they’re done. I also have a gift for EITHER my parents or brother & sister-in-law. I haven’t found anything better than that gift, so I think I may just buy a second one of that item and call my gifts done. I even have a certain bundle of by-request art supplies for someone who asked for them.
I then stopped by Mister Donut on the way to the bus stop. I’ve never actually tried Mister Donut before, but Marc said they were great, so I figured I’d give them a try before leaving. I wasn’t impressed. The coating on top was sweet enough, but the donuts themselves had no taste. Japanese people do not seem to be really big consumers of sugar. After this, I took the bus back to the little station and rode my bike home the rest of the way.
I finished cleaning the bathroom. It’s spotless now. I finished the living room too, and it looks nicely organized for the next person. I don’t know what to do about the kitchen. It’s clean enough, but I have a huge shelf full of empty plastic Pepsi Nex and Green Tea bottles, as well as a few leftover wine & beer containers from Marc. The recycle day for those items isn’t until the last Friday of the month, so I am not even close to being able to throw those out. I guess I’ll just have to bag them up and sit them in a corner somewhere. That ain’t good, but there isn’t anything else I can think to do with them.
Finally, I started to pack up my own stuff. The first suitcase is full of clothes, and weighs in at 57 pounds. I don’t remember for sure, but I think the weight restriction was 50 pounds. Maybe it was 55 pounds. I’ll have to go up to the office tomorrow and look up weight restrictions on the airline’s website before I start re-distributing. I filled the second suitcase up to about 70%, but I have to have clothes to wear this week, so I can’t really call it done yet. All my electronics will go in the carry-on bag with me. It looks like I really won’t have to mail anything, which surprises me. I guess a lot of what I brought here and had mailed to me was disposable stuff. I am not taking home shampoo, deodorant, slippers and old shoes, and so forth. There are several items that people sent to me for use in my lessons, and I’ll just leave those here for the next person. Some of it I used, and some of it I didn’t.
I really should have gone through those suitcases earlier. Inside one of them I found brand new packages of socks and underwear, which I could have been using all along instead of wearing holes in the ones I’ve been using. There was an unopened pack of black dress socks. Most importantly, there were four or five fancy gift bags that I brought along with me. I can use those for my kindergarten gifts instead of the crappy ones I bought at Happy Town. Unfortunately, I also found folded-up coffee cup gift boxes that I could have used for the two gifts on Friday. Too late!
Overall, there was nothing drastically interesting about this day. Today was really the beginning of the ending, as I continued cleaning and started actually packing. Tuesday, Y-San has to do a walk-through of the apartment to see what we’ve destroyed (nothing) and then I have to go back to the office to get a certificate of completion of my internship handed to me by somebody important. Probably after that, I’ll go get my exit visa with Y-San and the other American teacher. Other than that little bit of business on Tuesday, I don’t have any special plans. Nothing for Monday either. Wednesday of course, is an all-day work day, so I won’t get anything done then in the way of packing. It’d certainly not going to take Monday and Tuesday to finish cleaning and packing. I can probably finish packing in less than an hour, and the cleaning in less time than that.
I wonder what I should do?
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March 9th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
You can Y-San about the recyclables when she does her walk-thru she might have an Idea. Smile.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Now all you have to do is “Hurry Up And Wait!”
You are ready to Motor!
March 10th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
“You can Y-San about the recyclables when she does her walk-thru she might have an Idea.”
And naturally, she did. After the inspection, we loaded up the trash into her car, drove it up to the university, and put it in their trash area. Problem solved!
“Hurry Up And Wait!”
Yup. Everything`s done but locking the door!