I seem to have got the "Firefly" bug again. It's the only DVD I brought with me to Japan so I save it for lazy mornings and nights when I can't sleep (there have been a few).
Today is a national holiday in Japan so we got the day off. I went to
Komagane with Yasuko and one of my students, Yuko, for lunch. We went to an Italian restaurant for spaghetti and then onto Mr Donut for coffee. I had three cups of the stuff so I'm now simultaneously tired and buzzing. To give my shaking limbs a rest I read the entire
Firefly entry on Wikipedia, with associated offshoots and found out some rather interesting stuff. I know want to watch more episodes but I have to ration myself!
Komagane is, from the bit I saw, one huge retail park in the most dramatic setting you could hope for - out-of-town shopping with mountains. Not a big deal for those who live with them, bit for a small person, from a small country, with smallllll mountains (which one rarely sees), this kind of thing is quite shiny. I'll write some more about it at the weekend for the weekly report.
Have started putting together tentative travel plans for the coming month or two including trips to Tokyo, Matsumoto and Nagano amongst others. I want to get into my new apartment and feel a little more settled and at ease with things before I start venturing off for the weekend. The Japanese switch in my brain has finally turned on and all the random syllables are now starting to make sense a little more, so much so that I can now intuit the meanings of certain words according to context, and the rest I merely repeat and ask the meaning. This is a very slow process, however, so expect no bi-lingual-ism anytime soon.
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