/Let There Be Pictures
she said, and there were Pictures!
As I mentioned yesterday, there's a lovely Hello Kitty carpet on the floor of my room. Mjau.
..and SpongeBob? He's everywhere. EVERYWHERE!
Japanese people are crazy, but in a good way.
On, and my personal favourite, the SpongeBob-Pig!
Forget about SpiderPig, that's SO twothousandandLATE.
So yeah. This is what I'm surrounded by while I sleep, and every morning I wake up to a thousand creepy looking SpongeBob's staring down at me. I just hope they never pull a Toy Story thing and start moving around at night. You never know, I'm not that far from Hiroshima, and who know's what all that radiation could have done to Mr. SpongeBob? - I don't, and I'd rather not find out.
After work yesterday, Yumi decided that learning to speak and understand Japanse wasn't enough, I also have to learn to read the god damn language. And write. Yeah. As if just learning the words and grammar wasn't difficult enough..
So she and her mom [Mama] dragged me off to the 100 Yen shop, and refused to let me bring my wallet. I tried to go get it, but then they started shouting at me in Japanese, and that's never a good thing. Apparantly, as I've been declared one of their daughters, I'm not allowed to pay for anything. They even buy me cigarettes. I feel really weird accepting all these things, but in this country you're basically not allowed to say no. So I keep saying Hai! and Arrigato gozaimasu all the time, while nodding and smiling and flapping my arms around like the oversized idiot that I am, trying to make myself understood. Easier said than done. Anyways, I ended up leaving the shop with a learn-to-write book meant for four year olds, as well as word-cards and lot's of other practical things, such as pink hangers (Lovisa would LOVE them) and towels and other weird things I'm not quite sure what to do with.
Yup... Learning in progress! Not going too fast, but hey - I blame it on the jetlag.
After a lovely homecooked Japanse dinner, Yumi, Mama and I finished off the evening watching Anaconda 4 in Japanese with English subs. Interesting, to say the least. Btw, snake in Japanese is Hebi. Just in case you were wondering.
Now: Work
Soon: Mobile shopping?
