Monday in Japan. Ｍｙ ｄａｙ ｉｎ Ａｋａｓｈｉ ａｎｄ Ｓａｎｎｏｍｉｙａ．And the death of my....

Well,  I had the day off on Monday. So I could do whatever I wante. I didn`t have a clue what to do. So using my VERY handy itouch (pay close attention to that very) I looked up places to go around here becuase I didn`t want to go somewhere too far. So I goton the bus at 9:04 and then took a  train to Akashi station which is about 15 minuted away. It was there thata not at all suprising event happened. The death of my itouch and me almost losing my sanity becuase of it. I had grown quite attatched. Ok, so I dropped it in a toilet. A traditioanl Japanese toilet. Mom you know what that looks like. Unlike my cell phone, which I dropped in water about 4 or 5 times, this itouch didn`t even give me a chance, it died immediatly. I was destitute. I went across the street to my destination: Akashi Koen. Or Akashi Park, which was absolutely gorgeous and has the remains of a castle in it, but unfortunetaly, I was so upset about killing my itouch that I had a little bit of trouble enjoying it. I had just lost my source or time, alarm, intenet, translator, weather, music, pictures, that I loved to show people, and everything else. So, after wandering around for a little while in a daze, thinking about all the things I had panned to use my itouch for going up into smoke, I finally snapped out of it, took some pitures and decided to take a train to Sannomiya where I knew I could find a store without much trouble to buy a watch at.
       It had already began snowing and by the time I got to Sannomiya, around 12 I think, it was coming down harder. I think that was my first time walking in the snow. At first it was very nice, but when I headed home, I didn`t like it anymore. So at Sannomiya, I got this craving for cofee, which is very rare, so I went to a coffee shop in the mall. I talked to a guy with his 4 month old baby there for awhile, wrote up about the differences between China and Japan in my diary, and then went and bought envelopes to send things home in, a watch and a pair of earings.  Then I wandered around the bookstore, looked at ice skating magazines (in case you didn`t know I think ice skating is one of the most beautiful things ever) and then I headed back to Uozumion the WRONG train, thinking to myself how I never really do things by myself and I didn`t really like it that much. So, I took the wrong train, passed my destination, which I knew meant I had just missed the hourly bus back home, Oh Great. I took another train back. Went to ANOTHER coffee shop (what`s with me and coffee lately-too much tea, that`s what it is) watched as the snow fell harder and harder. Then went over to the ticket people, who happened to all be ladies, and badgered them for about ten minutes on bus information, sat down freezing to death. Went downstairs, and out of the station to the bathroom, came back up, and sat down freezing again. Went down again. Annoyed a lady next to me about if this was the right bus. Got on the RIGHT bus, and headed back to the house.Walked from the bus to the house in the snow. Ran to my room, turned on the heater, made some tea, sat on the toilet bacause it has a heated seat for a little bit, and then went in my room and attempted to study Japanese for the next 2 hours. I also talked to myself. Beleive it or not that was the first time I had done that- talking to myself for a period longer than 2 minutes. This was about 20 minutes. I should record how many times I do that till I get home. It`s not that I don`t talk to anyone, its just that I have to talk really slow and only about easy to understand, things they would be interested in stuff. Actually, a funny thing is, that when I went to the church everyone there can speak english and many people it is a first language. I talked to a lady who isfrom the carribian, here teaching english, she has a difficult accent to understand. I realized about half way through talking with her that I was still talking really slow and clear. But it was beacause I had trouble understanding her. She could understand me just fine if I talked fast!
Ok, so back to me in my room. Um... that`s it. We had gyoza for dinner. Very good. Just like at East Wind resturant. They talked about how all their WWOOFers gain weight when they come here and I was like, ``No, no no! I want to lose weight! Put me to work please, stop feeding me!!!`` Oh, well,  I`m still confident that I will lose wight, even if I have to use mental power to do it.
They have been hosting WWOOFers for 2 years now. They said  that they get about 5 request a day from people wanting to stay at their place.　I said that was becuase they are the only ones in this area with pictures, and they have really high ratings.


Today, we went down to a feild that they are going to be using about ten minutes drive away and we measured it and put stakes everywhere. They are going to divided it into plots of land that they rent out to people to garden.
Now, I am back at the house with Ayako. She is going to teach an english class soon, and I am going to help. I`m using her laptop now since I .... I almost want to cry thinkning about it. Now I can`t sit in bed and blog for you all, I have to come out HERE and do it! boo hoo. I`m sorry dad. You`ll have to wait 2 months to buy me a new itouch. If you want you can buy me a laptop, if it makes you feel better know ing that when I return I will be a wee bit extra excited to see you knowing you have gotten me a return gift. Well, its just an idea.
That`s it for today. I really do love to write once I get going!!
Japanese words of the day are
tabun: Maybe
itai! : ouch!
aida: between
and
atamagaii: clever, or smart.