Monday night, 9:15pm June 28th 2010
Two months done, one more to go. Sitting on my bed attempting to get this silly presentation done before reading more Harry Potter. An update from the last time I wrote.
Many of these adventures involve getting lost, being hot, thinking that my mind is playing tricks on me, getting upset, having a blast etc... so let the stories begin.
With long classes and lots of stuff to do it was difficult to have fun this past week/weekend. We had a bunch of homework and random things that need to be done, but we managed to attempt to have fun Saturday. Nadine and I set off for the Historical Village of Hokkaido which was supposed to be only about a 15-20 minute train ride and another 15 minute walk from the station. However it took us about 5 hours to get there. Let me start at the beginning. Saturday we decided we were going to leave at 10:30 (which really ended up being 11 because Nadine is ALWAYS late). So we set off for school to get money and then to the bus so that we could actually get downtown. Once downtown we realized just how hot and humid it was outside. We decided to go underground to the subway and walk the underground shopping center called poll town that connects two stations. After stopping for a snack to tide us over till we got to where we were going we set off for the subway. Once there we looked at a map and saw that we were in the wrong place. So we walked poll town again to the other station to try that... again we were wrong. We decided that we would know where we were if we went above ground. Once above ground we headed in the direction of Sapporo Station (another station that we knew would have more subway systems). Once at this station we headed below ground and once again we saw no sign of the subway track we needed. Mind you this all took about an hour and a half. after wondering around Sapporo Station for another hour, which puts 2 hours behind where we wanted to be, we finally found where we needed to be. After buying our ticket and going through the gate we came across problem number 2. Where is our platform? After asking someone who had no idea we decided to wonder around a little bit and finally after another half an hour we decided to take my brilliant advice and ask a police man who was directing traffic for people coming off trains. By this time not only was I hot and tired, I was getting mad at little things because of how hot and tired I was. FINALLY we got on our train and headed on our way to a fun time at the Historical Village (so I thought). We got there and walked out of the train station and realized we had no idea where to go next. So we wondered in one direction for a few minutes, turned back, wondered in the other direction, turned back and finally went into the train station to ask for a map. The lady gave us one and pointed us in the right direction (or so we thought). We wondered straight like she told us and realized about half way down that we were going the wrong way. so we turned around only to see a guy walking toward us who said something to us in Japanese, which of course we didnt understand. He said in broken english that he was staff at the station and that we were going the wrong way. He was sent after us so that we didn't get lost. Finally we were on our way to the Village. 10-15 minutes later we were standing, sweating, at the bottom of the steps that led us up to the old Sapporo train Station. With 2 hours left we decided to see as much of the village as we could. Once there we had a wonderful time. It was SO cool... We learned later that we could has asked for Headphones that told us what everything was in English. Next time we go we will have to do that.
Ok Story number 2
Early this morning at about 6:05-6:10 (give or take a few minutes because I cant remember) I was woken up from an amazing slumber to my bed shaking ... I woke up, looked at the clock and literally said "Huh, earthquake" and went back to bed. When I was fully consious I decided that my mind was playing tricks on me in the middle of the night. While singing "Just my imagination running away with me" I googled Earthquake and was given a sight called "Earthquake Today" I KID YOU NOT! Looking at this web page I found that indeed there was an earthquake in Japan at 6:03 in the morning. At the epicenter (in the middle of the ocean) it was a 5.1 the city that was hit the worst was about 4.5 hours away from us. I got on facebook and sent a quick message to laura asking her if she had felt the quake. she said yes and that it woke her up as well. In class I began talking about the earthquake and people had no idea what I was talking about. Nadine had slept through it and most of the people at the DK house didnt even know there was an earthquake.
Tomorrow we are heading to the Chocolate factory with the other Ball State girls. This weekend we are going to hang out with Bre and Giselle who have met an Irish guy who they want me to meet (no objection on my end) :-)
Should be an interesting week
Night night
Court
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