Sick and not liking it
Sep. 22nd, 2010 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frellnikSo I definitely caught a cold or something. My throat hurts and I lost my voice today. I sound pretty bad apparently. I was supposed to go to Hawaiians Water Park (complete with hot springs!) tomorrow...but I'm not going now. :(
So today I woke up with a sore throat but it wasn't too bad so I went to school. Then after giving my self-intro to 4 grade 2 classes and playing the Touch the Colour game...my throat was quite sore...and my voice decided it had had enough and went on vacation...and has yet to come back.
3rd period was spent in the school gym watching the 4th graders perfom. There was a choir perfomance and a music performance. I think this was practice for an upcoming performance or competition or something. It was pretty good. Those kids can play...the instruments played included accordians, recorders, xylophones, pianos, keyboars and these weird little keyboards that you have to blow into a mouth piece on them while you push the keys to get sound...oh and drums. lol It was fun to watch!
School finished at 2:30 today and what should have been 6th period was used for Club activities. One of the teachers asked me if I knew the game Shougi and if I had played before. I told her I had no idea what it was and she said it's similar to Chess. She asked if I would like to come and learn with the club and, of course, I went. It was pretty fun!! I learned the basics about the game and played for about 20 minutes. One of the teachers that were teaching the kids sat with me and my partner and went through each piece for me. She was really nice and went through different scenarios for me to think through how I should move my pieces. I've decided that when I am at that school on Wednesdays I'm going to keep going to that club and learn how to play the game! That same teacher also invited me to her house Wednesday nights because her daughter (I think) teaches Koto!! So I think I get to learn to play the koto as well!!! And she's walking distance from the school so I can just go home, change and then walk to her place. I'm really excited about this!
After school today I caught the train to Taira to meet a bunch of the Iwaki ALTs for Lenny's birthday. We met in LATOV so I went to the drug store and told the guy at the counter that my throat is sore and asked for medicine. lol He asked me if I had a cold. I said...probably. lol
So he showed me some medicine that is Ibuprophene based and that I take only 3 times a day with my meals and it's good for sore throats and other symptoms too. So I bought that. I also got a thermometor because I didn't have on. There were three and each one was different so he explained them all to me and I picked the middle one....the cheap one would take 5 mintues to give me a reading. THe middle one would take 90 seconds and the really expensive on only takes about 30 seconds...so I went with the 90 second one. Then he gave me throat candies and a "present" lol and a whole tone of coupns!! I think he was impressed with my Japanese or something...or maybe just the fact that I'm a foreigner..but he gave me a whole tone of free stuff. lol
Then I met up with everyone on the first floor of LATOV and we were waiting for everyone to get there. I went over to talk to Matt and there were some Japanese girls there (one in particular who we weren't sure at first if she was drunk or not...she wasn't) talking with some of the ALTs. One of the girls actually fed me ice cream!! It was good ice cream...but I didn't even know her name and she more or less shoved ice cream in my mouth! lol I did warn her I have a cold. She didn't seem to mind. lol Turns out she lives near me and actually went to the school I teach at (however many years ago). So maybe I'll see her around. She was one of the sane ones of the group too. lol Yasuko was just plain nuts..she wants to Home stay with Mathew at Aquamarine Aquarium....yeah...ok. lol
That was fun...and interesting to say the least.
Then we got everyone together and we went to the Hungry Bear. It's an all you can eat and drink (including alcoholic beverages) for about $36 a person. There is a 2 hour limit. It's mostly meats with some veggies. It's a buffet style. You go and pick the foods you want then you bring them back to your table and cook them on the grill in the centre of the table. There was sea food (shrimp, fish, squid, octopus ect) and chicken, beef, liver, little sausages, weiners, veggies (green peppers, potatos, stuffed peppers, garlic, hot peppers, ontions etc.) there were even mini eggs and mochi and more. So we ate a lot...we filled up almost the entire restaurant. I left at 8:40 to come home on the 8:40 train.
I got a phone call from one of the ladies in my Buddhist group and we talked for a few minutes and decided to meet tomorrow. So Okawa-san is coming to my house tomorrow afternoon...that means I need to tidy up a bit and buy some snacks or something to offer her...definitely something to drink...water and juice I guess. I'm not buying tea since I can't drink it and they will only have large bottles.
Hopefully I'll have a voice tomorrow to greet her with. I'm really looking forward to meeting her. I hung up on her the other night by mistake...I had no idea who she was and couldn't understand her so I told her she had the wrong number and hung up lol. Then I got an e-mail from Sato-san asking if I had hearf from so and so with such a number...and that was the number of the person I hung up on LOL. ooops. So I explained what happened and asked her to tell Okawa-san to please talk slowly for me lol. So today when I talked to her I had no problems! lol
So now I'm off to bed...tomorrow I'm staying home to relax...and if my voice isn't back on Friday then I'm calling in sick. That will give me a 4 day weekend to sleep this off. I will be fine by monday!!! I think I'll call home tomorrow morning...I wonder if mom will be home on a Wednesday night. lol
Here's hoping!
So today I woke up with a sore throat but it wasn't too bad so I went to school. Then after giving my self-intro to 4 grade 2 classes and playing the Touch the Colour game...my throat was quite sore...and my voice decided it had had enough and went on vacation...and has yet to come back.
3rd period was spent in the school gym watching the 4th graders perfom. There was a choir perfomance and a music performance. I think this was practice for an upcoming performance or competition or something. It was pretty good. Those kids can play...the instruments played included accordians, recorders, xylophones, pianos, keyboars and these weird little keyboards that you have to blow into a mouth piece on them while you push the keys to get sound...oh and drums. lol It was fun to watch!
School finished at 2:30 today and what should have been 6th period was used for Club activities. One of the teachers asked me if I knew the game Shougi and if I had played before. I told her I had no idea what it was and she said it's similar to Chess. She asked if I would like to come and learn with the club and, of course, I went. It was pretty fun!! I learned the basics about the game and played for about 20 minutes. One of the teachers that were teaching the kids sat with me and my partner and went through each piece for me. She was really nice and went through different scenarios for me to think through how I should move my pieces. I've decided that when I am at that school on Wednesdays I'm going to keep going to that club and learn how to play the game! That same teacher also invited me to her house Wednesday nights because her daughter (I think) teaches Koto!! So I think I get to learn to play the koto as well!!! And she's walking distance from the school so I can just go home, change and then walk to her place. I'm really excited about this!
After school today I caught the train to Taira to meet a bunch of the Iwaki ALTs for Lenny's birthday. We met in LATOV so I went to the drug store and told the guy at the counter that my throat is sore and asked for medicine. lol He asked me if I had a cold. I said...probably. lol
So he showed me some medicine that is Ibuprophene based and that I take only 3 times a day with my meals and it's good for sore throats and other symptoms too. So I bought that. I also got a thermometor because I didn't have on. There were three and each one was different so he explained them all to me and I picked the middle one....the cheap one would take 5 mintues to give me a reading. THe middle one would take 90 seconds and the really expensive on only takes about 30 seconds...so I went with the 90 second one. Then he gave me throat candies and a "present" lol and a whole tone of coupns!! I think he was impressed with my Japanese or something...or maybe just the fact that I'm a foreigner..but he gave me a whole tone of free stuff. lol
Then I met up with everyone on the first floor of LATOV and we were waiting for everyone to get there. I went over to talk to Matt and there were some Japanese girls there (one in particular who we weren't sure at first if she was drunk or not...she wasn't) talking with some of the ALTs. One of the girls actually fed me ice cream!! It was good ice cream...but I didn't even know her name and she more or less shoved ice cream in my mouth! lol I did warn her I have a cold. She didn't seem to mind. lol Turns out she lives near me and actually went to the school I teach at (however many years ago). So maybe I'll see her around. She was one of the sane ones of the group too. lol Yasuko was just plain nuts..she wants to Home stay with Mathew at Aquamarine Aquarium....yeah...ok. lol
That was fun...and interesting to say the least.
Then we got everyone together and we went to the Hungry Bear. It's an all you can eat and drink (including alcoholic beverages) for about $36 a person. There is a 2 hour limit. It's mostly meats with some veggies. It's a buffet style. You go and pick the foods you want then you bring them back to your table and cook them on the grill in the centre of the table. There was sea food (shrimp, fish, squid, octopus ect) and chicken, beef, liver, little sausages, weiners, veggies (green peppers, potatos, stuffed peppers, garlic, hot peppers, ontions etc.) there were even mini eggs and mochi and more. So we ate a lot...we filled up almost the entire restaurant. I left at 8:40 to come home on the 8:40 train.
I got a phone call from one of the ladies in my Buddhist group and we talked for a few minutes and decided to meet tomorrow. So Okawa-san is coming to my house tomorrow afternoon...that means I need to tidy up a bit and buy some snacks or something to offer her...definitely something to drink...water and juice I guess. I'm not buying tea since I can't drink it and they will only have large bottles.
Hopefully I'll have a voice tomorrow to greet her with. I'm really looking forward to meeting her. I hung up on her the other night by mistake...I had no idea who she was and couldn't understand her so I told her she had the wrong number and hung up lol. Then I got an e-mail from Sato-san asking if I had hearf from so and so with such a number...and that was the number of the person I hung up on LOL. ooops. So I explained what happened and asked her to tell Okawa-san to please talk slowly for me lol. So today when I talked to her I had no problems! lol
So now I'm off to bed...tomorrow I'm staying home to relax...and if my voice isn't back on Friday then I'm calling in sick. That will give me a 4 day weekend to sleep this off. I will be fine by monday!!! I think I'll call home tomorrow morning...I wonder if mom will be home on a Wednesday night. lol
Here's hoping!
