I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet
There's not much to talk about in this week's blog as it has just been rehearsal after rehearsal. Rehearsals are going well and I can't believe that I open the dinner show NEXT WEEK! I'm really loving the shows that we're learning and just know that I'm going to have a blast performing them!
I hung out with my friends Reiko and Kanako this week and we went to a place called Monsoon Cafe. It is located in Ikspiari (kind of like Downtown Disney). It has AMAZING Pad Thai! I enjoyed it so much that I went there the next day for the lunch special which included a Vietnamese-style spring roll, shrimp toast (AMAZING!), pad Thai, and a drink for only ¥1500. The second time I asked for it extra spicy and boy was it...OMG! I also got a chance to explore Ikspiari a little more. I saw a street performer and had some amazing desserts.
My friend Michael and his sister came to visit me and they spent a few days exploring Tokyo. One night we were trying to head to the Outback Steakhouse and ended up on the wrong train...the dreaded ORANGE train. Here's the deal with the orange train. You get on not really realizing that it's the orange train. You seem to be heading in the right direction and then all of a sudden you turn and you no longer recognize any of the station names and you are about 40 minutes out of your way. It's frustrating to say the least. The best thing to do is just get off the train and the next stop and try to find the train heading the opposite way. Luckily we didn't go too far out of our way and ended up making to Outback about an hour after everyone else did. Oh well...it was an adventure.
While Michael and his sister spent the day at Disneyland I went to IKEA to start getting things to decorate my room. I made it all the way there (it's only like three stops away from my home station...one if you're on the rapid) by myself and without getting on any wrong trains. I've noticed that all IKEAs seem to be laid out the same way. I started my Japanese-Swedish adventure by having some Swedish meatballs in the cafe. Mmmmmmm! Then I dropped a couple hundred bucks (no worries, I've been saving quite a bit of my per diem by eating cheaply) on pillows, candles, linens, etc. I ended up having to make two long trips to IKEA that day because the duvet cover I got didn't match my color scheme. When I returned to the store to exchange it I ended up buying a few more things. Though I bought a lot I haven't fully decorated my room yet because we have "dozo" coming up soon. As all of the previous casts leave they give (or sell) the incoming casts their stuff. I can't wait to finish up my room and really feel like I'm at home :) I'll share pictures when my room is completely finished :)
Swedish lesson of the day: "Tach så myket" (tock suh mee-ket) means "Thank you"
I hung out with a new friend this week. His name is Nathan and we had a great time having a movie marathon and drinking Chu-Hi and sangria! He is such a nice, positive, outgoing person and his room is decorated AMAZINGLY! He leaves in April and will be greatly missed!
Ok, so this turned out to be a little bit longer than I expected. OH! I totally forgot to write about what turned out to be the inspiration for the title of this entry! I experienced my first earthquake! I was sitting at my computer and all of a sudden I felt a little shaky. At first I just thought I was getting lightheaded until I looked at my curtains and they were shaking too. It was very minor and only lasted a couple of seconds, but it was definitely something that I won't forget. It turned out to be a 5.3 magnitude at the epicenter (which was off the coast) and what we felt at E-Village was about a 3.0.
Included in this week's edition is what is going to be a new addition to the blog...Random Things I Find In Japan. Here is the first RTIFIJ:
I don't want to be drinking anything that says "sweat" on it...LOL!
Well, that brings us to this week's Japanese lesson. We've already learned that we should stay far away from the orange train so this week you get a bonus lesson:
SUGOI (roughly pronounced SUH-GOY)!
This word can be used alone to mean "WOW" or can be combined with an adjective to mean "very". For example when one walks into a fancy, beautiful restaurant he or she might say SUGOI when entering the dining room (meaning "WOW"). After the meal, if the food was very good one might say it was SUGOI OISHII (O-EE-SHE) (meaning "very delicious").
Off to rehearsal I go. We finish learning the dinner show today! Until next week...
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