-Got on the wrong bus and had to pay 50 Yen extra and walk far in broken shoes
-Took 40 pictures of a hot dog
-Taught a voice lesson in Japanese
Japan: you do something new and unexpected every day.
To be fair, the bus came at exactly the time our expected bus was supposed to come, but it was late and so was the real one. Mai and Carley followed me on, but right when I reached the "foyer" and took my bus ticket, Mai was like "Uhh...this isn't the right bus..." but she followed me on anyway, I guess in the hope that this bus would lead to the same area as our regular bus. It followed the same route, but stopped after a few stops and we were made to get off. End of the line, and we had to pay Y140. Yoko had given us Y250 for bus money, so we only had Y110 left, which obviously wasn't going to be enough to cover our trip down to our neighborhood. We got on the right bus but instead of getting off at our regular stop, got off 4 or 5 stops early, when the fare was at Y160. So we paid Y300, 50 cents extra, and I was actually legitimately upset, because that's how stingy I am here. That Y50 was definitely at least a piece of fruit or a package of ramen that I could have bought. :/ But live and learn, live and learn. Actually, I fell asleep on the bus, and Mai woke me up at the further stop and was like "Oh uh I'm gonna get off here" and I decided to get off with her, but I was still half asleep and hadn't even counted my money yet, so when I went to go pay I held the whole bus up and I was like "doumo sumimasen! doumo sumimasen!" and I was so embarrassed and stressed. Leave it to me to let a tiny thing like that get to me all day. Oh no, I held the bus up! Life is over! We walked home, but I chosen today of all days to wear my heels, which were breaking and are now broken. The straps are coming loose. Now I have no heels, and heels are like the footwear staple of Japanese women. Oh well!
After I came home and crashed on my bed after having gotten 3 hours of sleep the night before, I was in the middle of a dream (which I don't remember) when Yoko woke me up and asked me to the Guy Healy official food photographer. They need promotional photos for Guy's new restaurant in Sasedo, Rock 'n' Roll Brats. So Yoko made a hot dog and put it in a choux pastry bun (puffier than hot dog buns, apparently) and I took over 40 photos of the hotdog plus a background of chips, ketchup and mustard bottles at various angles and zooms. Good thing I already knew a little bit about food photo, and there was a big window with natural night and a white-walled background I could use. So my photos will appear in advertisements and menus in the Huis Ten Bosch theme park ^_^ Guy is affording me opportunities in photography as well, haha.
Later that night, after I had fallen asleep again, I was woken up by the doorbell. It was Ai, the same girl who Carley and I gave a voice lesson to last week. She came again unexpectedly! Except this time Yoko wasn't there to translate. I tried my best speaking in a mix of Japanese and English. It sucks that I couldn't really get across the concepts that I wanted, and everything was so basic. Communication is key to understanding and changing your voice. But she was a good sport and I think she improved and had stuff to work on for next week :)
This week at school we're giving them conversation tests. Next week is the last week--games and pictures!
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