Wednesday 14/01:
Ok, it’s been a while since I have written now but I have lots to tell about again, which is also one of the reason I haven’t had time to write, so I hope these next posts will make up for my absence. The other reason for my absence is by the way that I was sick with the flue. I got it right before my plain was leaving for Japan so I had to make the trip sick and heavily medicated with fever calming medicines more or less. I was lucky and it went without problems, but I didn’t get any better of traveling half the world in that state. Oh, did you know that they heat scan you one the way in to Japan to check for illnesses. Apparently you have to have more fever then I had at the moment for them to notice…
As you can see I have decided to continue to write in English. It is not my mother tongue so bear with me if there are a lot of mistakes, I cant make the time to perfect everything I write when this is just a hobby I do at night time now and then. Maybe I will end up writing less often, or writing shorter posts, but that’s no problem I guess. The main point is that my blog will be more international for everyone that is interested in Japan to read.
Ok this first post in a while will be short but cute. It’s about a visit to a children’s school we in the YSEP program did the other day. We all visited a class each, Ben from America and me got a fifth grade with around 34 children (big class compared to Norwegian standards), all about ten years old. They arranged the whole ting, and had a program for us starting with a super cool dance called Sooran, a fisherman’s dance. Here is a picture.
Then we played games, and in the end they asked questions like what our favorite animals and foods where. The hole time we communicated a little in English and a little in Japanese, and of course everyone at the same time, so a little confusing. The rest of the school program I couldn’t attend to since Ask and me where of to the topic of my next post, which I will write about another day. It was a really fun and unusual experience so I recommend you come back to read about it.
Selvsagt! Hope you’ve regained your strength after the flu ^^
Thanks, just coughing now. But now my roommate has gotten sick, so I feel kind of responsible. But I don’t see how I could have done anything different. Maybe I should have used the facemask everyone uses here at home to. I actually used one when I hade to go out in public sick, to pay my rent. It felt strange, and you lose a lot of your sight line, but breathing in it was no problem like I hade expected it to be. Maybe I will put up a picture of it later.