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this and next week are gonna be super-duper stressful. tons of homework and general stuff to do. and to top it off i've been eating more "junk food" (=convenience store sushi + stevia chocolate bars) which isn't gonna help how well i deal with things, but for some reason the stevia chocolate helps me fall asleep when nothing else does *shrugs* i was really irritated for a long while since i couldn't sleep like at all at night, now i sleep fine and actually feel kinda content when i wake up. gonna go to the doctor to get my medicine sorted out maybe next week, after some of this homework is done...
got proof i see badly from the eye doctor... forgot if i wrote about any of it here, the first place i went to refused to see me because the doctor couldn't speak english and talking about a disability requires "very precise words etc". then i specifically found a doctor who speaks english and in fact i used japanese the whole time except when talking to him (he was nearly native-level in english so my japanese was worse than his english). it cost 5,000 yen; it would've cost 13,000 but in japan if your condition is from birth or from a work/school accident it's covered on insurance whereas if it's just random old age shit and whatnot it's not covered. so my visit got covered. also 3,000 of that is him writing the explanation paper about my eyes, which for some reason automatically isn't covered by insurance.
in class i read aloud and translated some stuff from the declaration of human rights; the japanese, taiwanese and chinese students didn't understand the english like at ALL even when i thought it was really easy. so through that i realized, hey, i can actually even work as a translator from english to japanese - and it might be a ton EASIER than from japanese to english! it's just that i'd only do a basic translation/explain that meaning of the english, and then i'd need to get a japanese native to fix it all up. whereas with japanese i have the opposite problem, i need someone to explain the meaning so i can translate it properly.
lately i've been playing an online game called "Toram Online" i think it is, a free phone RPG thing. you can play it in english too. so my wife and i joined the same server and have been playing it for a bit every day, it's pretty good for japanese practice but the english translation is really bad lol. i've also fallen in love with a new manga series called 嫌がってるキミが好き, the more i read it the more i like it AND it's at the perfect vocabulary level for me right now, and it just came out with a new volume a couple days ago; i searched 3 bookstores and couldn't find any volumes so i broke down and bought 2 digital ones (because you get a 100... only 100... yen discount if it's a digital copy).
went cherry-blossom viewing like 5 times. it's fun because each group of people has a totally different way of viewing them and a different place they want to go to. most people actually don't seem to picnic out on the grass, instead they walk around and take photos of the various plants and then go have lunch at a restaurant or something, so we never actually experienced the "drunk office workers on a blanket on the grass" type (though we did have a blanket on the grass type, that was with my school classmates and no drinking involved).
anyway through that i found out that there's a REASON why every japanese person knows a ton of different cherry tree names (they don't say just "cherry tree", they say "such-and-such-city cherry tree" etc). it's because the types are usually wildly different - either in how the flowers are grouped together (looking like a cotton plant or like popcorn, for example) or the branches (a willow tree versus a normal cherry tree) or even color (white versus pink versus green flowers), and finally WHEN they bloom - so if most of the cherry trees have already lost their blossoms, you know x and y types will still be blooming.
got proof i see badly from the eye doctor... forgot if i wrote about any of it here, the first place i went to refused to see me because the doctor couldn't speak english and talking about a disability requires "very precise words etc". then i specifically found a doctor who speaks english and in fact i used japanese the whole time except when talking to him (he was nearly native-level in english so my japanese was worse than his english). it cost 5,000 yen; it would've cost 13,000 but in japan if your condition is from birth or from a work/school accident it's covered on insurance whereas if it's just random old age shit and whatnot it's not covered. so my visit got covered. also 3,000 of that is him writing the explanation paper about my eyes, which for some reason automatically isn't covered by insurance.
in class i read aloud and translated some stuff from the declaration of human rights; the japanese, taiwanese and chinese students didn't understand the english like at ALL even when i thought it was really easy. so through that i realized, hey, i can actually even work as a translator from english to japanese - and it might be a ton EASIER than from japanese to english! it's just that i'd only do a basic translation/explain that meaning of the english, and then i'd need to get a japanese native to fix it all up. whereas with japanese i have the opposite problem, i need someone to explain the meaning so i can translate it properly.
lately i've been playing an online game called "Toram Online" i think it is, a free phone RPG thing. you can play it in english too. so my wife and i joined the same server and have been playing it for a bit every day, it's pretty good for japanese practice but the english translation is really bad lol. i've also fallen in love with a new manga series called 嫌がってるキミが好き, the more i read it the more i like it AND it's at the perfect vocabulary level for me right now, and it just came out with a new volume a couple days ago; i searched 3 bookstores and couldn't find any volumes so i broke down and bought 2 digital ones (because you get a 100... only 100... yen discount if it's a digital copy).
went cherry-blossom viewing like 5 times. it's fun because each group of people has a totally different way of viewing them and a different place they want to go to. most people actually don't seem to picnic out on the grass, instead they walk around and take photos of the various plants and then go have lunch at a restaurant or something, so we never actually experienced the "drunk office workers on a blanket on the grass" type (though we did have a blanket on the grass type, that was with my school classmates and no drinking involved).
anyway through that i found out that there's a REASON why every japanese person knows a ton of different cherry tree names (they don't say just "cherry tree", they say "such-and-such-city cherry tree" etc). it's because the types are usually wildly different - either in how the flowers are grouped together (looking like a cotton plant or like popcorn, for example) or the branches (a willow tree versus a normal cherry tree) or even color (white versus pink versus green flowers), and finally WHEN they bloom - so if most of the cherry trees have already lost their blossoms, you know x and y types will still be blooming.
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