日本旅Spirited Away in Japan Episode 16

上回提要
祭典日果然非同凡響.

起來的時候發現喉嚨好像有點痛....不過當時並沒有特別在意. 起來的時候還發現了另外一件事, 雨. 雖然說不是下的很大可是好像是算有可能影響到挖掘的雨量. 我們在吃早餐的時候Dr.Weber 就宣布當天的挖掘活動停止. Amanda 後來安排我們到香深的博物館參觀. 我那時候其實還滿興奮的因為我終於可以買到傳說中的白色戀人了~~~

倒轉到幾天前.....

那時候我有問Toshiko桑在船泊這邊是否有在賣白色戀人可是他那時候回我說因為船泊不是個景點所以沒有賣什麼特別的東西. 之後Takafumi跟我說香深應該有在賣.

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於是我們一行人就被載去了香深.

香深跟船泊比起來是在是大多了. 雖然也是只有一條主道路可是還是比船泊繁榮許多. 我沒記錯的話, 他們比不是稱呼他們的博物館為博物館而是叫鄉土資料館.

資料館裡面有許多介紹禮文島當地特色的展覽像是1:1比例的海豹標本.....沒想到出現在Tudor面前竟然是這種龐然大物....對我們來說資料館最大的特色是在於當地出土的繩文土器. 又些土器真的是超乎我香香的精稚尤其是以鯨魚牙齒刻成的雕像. 資料館也有介紹禮文島的發展歷史而且我發現了一件事.....原來柳谷老闆他的祖先就是開拓禮文島的拓荒者之一.文獻記載他們家是從青森來的. wow 好厲害喔.

Tudor can beat these guys up/Tudor可以在海裡跟他比摔角

神轎

Jomon Pottery/繩文土器

Yanagiya san's ancestor...probably

參觀完後我們分散為兩組人在香深活動. 我,陳小姐, Seung-wan, Ed, Daniela, Erin, 我們決定前往香深最大的神社參觀. 當我們到了事後, 我看了一下這神社的名字 欸? 嚴島神社? 這不是在宮島那很有名的神社嗎? 我們爬上了階梯到了神社本體, 我看到了專門給人洗手的水池可是不知為何水並沒有從"水龍頭"中流出. 那裡還有月蝕紀念碑....為什麼要在神社那裡立個那樣的紀念杯啊? Seung-wan開始抱怨說他很熱然後他問我說可不可以借他穿我的薄襯衫. 我是沒有什麼意見啦可是他在船的時候開始抱怨說為什麼衣服這麼小. 小姐, 你是不是忘了你是個女人. 你有胸部, 我沒有!

Eclipse Observation Monument

在我們會到約見面的地點前, 我們跑去民產店買了些特產. 有些人買了短袖而我則是買了一盒白色戀人. 我們約的地點就是在資料館前可是我們那時候才發現原來那邊有一個很棒的彩繪.

Shiroi Koibito/白色戀人

我覺得那張照片應該是我在日本最值得留念的一張吧.

我們一回到旅館的時候, 我就偷偷的把一個白色戀人餅乾遞給了陳小姐. 我跟他說我知道她也很想吃所以叫他不要跟別人說喔. (感覺好像有點了解為什麼Toshiko桑他們會認為我們是一對) 我也給了一個給Toshiko桑感謝他平常幫我們做的事.

下午的時候, 我真的開始感覺到我不太舒服. 我還是沒有放在心上就是了. 陳小姐還有一些其他人跑去久種湖散步. 我則是一個人到船泊鎮上一個小丘上的神社. 我在神社的時候一直看到一隻烏鴉在那裡徘徊, 烏鴉是在守護那個有點老舊的神社嗎?從小丘上可以看得到整個船泊而且還看得到濱中也就是我們的遺址所在點. 我回到旅館不久後, 陳小姐他們也回來了. 他們跟我說有看到一隻馬還有他的第五條腿!!!! 哈哈哈哈.

當天的晚餐感覺好像比平常還要更加豐盛也有可能是因為菜色有點不一樣. 有一道tataki, 海鮮沙拉, 手捲, 日式炸雞, 南瓜湯, 桃子. 我真的好喜歡吃tataki 而且有些人不敢吃生魚片所以我吃的份量可能有好幾人份吧~ 因為那時都是在喝味增湯所以以喝到不一樣的湯就覺得太好喝了!

吃完後, Toshiko桑就在大廳裡叫我們日文(果然是個好老師.)

後來有幾個沒看過的外國人走進旅館要住宿. 在禮文島看到外國人是真的很難得的事結果竟然一下就出現了3個. 原來他們在札幌有會議後來開完後就到處旅行然後就不知道為什麼而來到了禮文島. 他們之所以到禮文莊住宿是因為他們有去資料館問旅館的情報. 因為我們一群外人的關係所以資料館的人就跟他們說可以住在島上最多外國人的地方. 哈哈哈. 後來他們邀請我們去唱ktv可是我們這些人還真的沒有給他們面子, 我們沒有一個人去 哈!


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Previously
Matsuri was pretty cool~

I woke up to find my sore was a bit sore but oh well it was probably nothing....or so I thought. It was raining so we were waiting for any announce on whether we would still be digging or not. As expected, Dr. Weber announced that the dig would be canceled for the entire day. We thought we had the entire day off but Amanda then told us that she would be arranging us to go to the local museum in Kafuka which was fine by everyone. I had been wanting to go back to Kafuka for a while now because I wanted to buy Shiroi Koibito, a kind of white chocolate cookie.


Rewind back to few days ago...


I asked Toshiko san if Funadomari had a place that was selling Shiroikoibito. She said Funadomari isn't a tourist spot so I wouldn't be able to find it in town. Takafumi said I might be able to find it in Kafuka tho.


So we ended up spending the morning in Kafuka.


Kafuka Museum is a small municipal museum but nonetheless, it still has a lot of information on the development of Rebun Island. The exhibits include contemporary Rebun culture all the way back to Jomon period.


There were some pretty interesting artifacts such as several bone tools as well as some finely crafted bone figurines. The exhibit's section on the early development of Rebun Island made me realize something.....Yanagiya san's ancestors were some of the first people who came to Rebun Island! So in a way...Shota's family are bunch of trailblazers.

2 floors/有兩樓哦

Bone Figurines/骨制雕像

fish bones/魚骨

 

After the visit, we split into two groups. Ed, Seung-wan, Chen, Erin, Daniela, and I went to see the jinsha in Kafuka. The jinsha has a monument for an eclipse observation....what a weird reason to build a monument. When we were there, Seung-wan was complaining about the weather being too hot. She asked me if I could lend her my shirt. I said sure but then when she was putting it on, she was like, "Why is this so small? I can't button the shirt? Is this a girl's one?" No, Seung-wan. It's not a girl's clothes. You have boobs while I will have man boobs in the future but that was why the shirt was small. When we left, we saw two little girls, probably sisters and like kids from Funadomari, they politely greeted us. We were going to a Buddhist temple but it was closed and wasn't the way we imagined it as it was super new. 

From Seung-wan's camera/Seung-wan的照片

We got back to the dock and bought some souvenir and I finally bought my Shiroi Koibito! We sat down on the dock and saw a painting that says, "We <3 Rebun." I took a picture of it and it was probably the best picture I had taken in Japan.

I <3 Rebun too

Shiroi Koibito/白色戀人

When we got back, I secretly gave Chen a piece of Shiroi Koibito. I knew that she wanted to try it too from our past conversations so I just decided to give her one. I also gave Toshiko san one too for her hard work of taking care of us.

After we got back and ate lunch, Chen and the others went on the hiking trail by the lake while I went to the jinsha in Funadomari. The jinsha is located on the hill at the end of the town center on a hill. The bottom of the hill was where the kids started their matsuri parade. From the top of the hill, I was able to see all the way to Hamanaka where we were digging. Just an awesome view. Everyone returned by late afternoon and they were telling me about a horse they saw and about the horse's giant 5th leg hahahaha.

The dinner was fabulous and it was nice to have non-miso soup for a change. We had a creamy pumpkin/squash soup~ The tataki was nice too because I'm a big fan of any tataki.

After dinner, Toshiko san taught us Japanese in the lobby. Such a good teacher~

At night, a bunch of foreigners showed up at the hotel! Oh my God......foreigners, well new foreigners.... Turned out they were had a conference in Sapporo then after that they started traveling and they somehow ended up in Rebun. They came to Rebun-so instead of other hotels because they were asking where they could stay in Rebun and they happened to have asked the staff at the museum. So the staff naturally just told them where the biggest concentration of foreigners were on the island. They later went to sing Karaoke~

To be Continued...

日本旅Spirited Away in Japan 番外篇 Side Story-3

Rooms
I don't think I had mentioned who live in what room so here it is!
Downstairs

Room1
Lindsey
Katherine
Nikki

Room2
Tom
Tudor

Upstairs

Room1
Me
Joran
Ed
Sean

Room2 (right next to my room)
Daniela
Erin Bird
Deidre

Room3
Ingrid
Katie
Big Erin

Room4
Seung-wan
Chen
Jess

Wait, there's also Amanda but......I never figured out which room she slept in.....There was even a short thing about that but that will be for another day.

Caterpillar
When we got to Rebun, it must had been caterpillar season since they were everywhere! On Rebun, the wind is very strong so it was pretty funny to see them crawl, it was like seeing a fast-forwarding of  regular caterpillar crawling. When they move their body shape becomes like this ---> Ω

Takafumi
Takafumi turned out to be somekind of a toy salesman from Sapporo. Don't know what was going on with the job, didn't want to ask.


Tudor
Tudor is a beast. Tudor could dig so fast and still not miss any potential lithics. Tudor is like Jesus. There was a hill besides the site and one day when we finished work, we just saw Tudor on top of that hill. It must had been only maybe 10 minutes since our work was done and he climbed that hill in that short amount of time. People go to the beach to swim sometimes but they never venture off far except Tudor. People were amazed by Tudor's awesomeness but he, himself was quite modest and embarrassed about it. Tudor is also a dad to a 1yr old daughter at that time and he is happily married to his wife. It probably must had been hard for him since we were without internet for a while... One time I said something like, "Tudor doesn't need to buy a plane ticket home. He can just dig his way back to Romania." Tudor is GOD.

Local Kids
Usually by the time we got off work, classes would be out (Japanese students got classes in July), so whenever we went into town, we would see kids. The kids were so polite as they would always politely hello to us. I like polite kids then I would get cruel reminder of my ill-mannered friends.


Pun-ya san
Pun-ya san is the local bakery owner and he was the one who delivered lunch to us. Whenever we saw him when we were working then it meant that lunch was close! He and Edelweiss were the symbols of our lunch.


Seals
There are seals at Rebun and you could see them when you look out to the ocean. They're kinda like dogs of the sea. They bark (right word for seal?) and they look like stones from afar but there were so many of them that they really couldn't be missed.

To Be Continued...

房間配置~~~~

之前一直都沒說過這個.

房間1
Lindsey
Katherine
Nikki

房間2
Tom
Tudor

2樓

房間1
Me
Joran
Ed
Sean

房間2(就在我的旁邊)
Daniela
Erin Bird
Deidre

房間
Ingrid
Katie
Big Erin

房間
Seung-wan
Chen
Jess


那.....Amanda住哪一間呢? 老實說我不知道欸~ 其是那時候我還被笑可是我真的不知道啊!!!


毛毛蟲
我們到的時候, 也許是因為是毛毛蟲即將要繁殖的季節或是什麼的可是反正在路上就是有超多的毛毛蟲就對了. 島上一般來說都是刮大風得所以當毛毛蟲在爬的時候會被風吹著爬. 其是有點像在看快轉一樣. 動的時候, 他們看起來像是希臘字母   Ω   一樣.

Takafumi
Takafumi 其實是從是玩具行的. 為什麼他會在禮文島呢? 是跟Toshiko桑一樣只是暫事再度假打工嗎? 我不知道. 我那時也不太好意思問因為連Toshiko桑也不太清楚. 

Tudor
Tudor挖東西真的很快. 他挖的速度可能是我們一般人的2,3倍吧而且他可以很確定的判斷出石器就連教授們都也很佩服他. 遺址旁邊有個小丘. 有一天收工後 , Tudor他可能只花了不到10分鐘吧?Tom之後也有爬上那小丘可是他說那 丘很難爬所以連他也覺得Tudor果然不是普通人. 有一次, 聽說他去游泳的時候面對面看到了一隻海豹結果是海豹被嚇跑(好啦這邊是我編的不過他真的有近距離遇到一隻海豹). Tudor是一個真正的男人, 一個堂堂正正的男子漢.

當地的小孩
我們收工時通常都是下午4,5點多就是小孩子在外面玩的時候. 當地的小孩子看見我們這些外國人的時候都會有禮貌/主動地跟我們打招呼. 有禮貌跟友善的小孩果然比我們這些愛說髒話的大人還好.


Pun-ya桑
Pun=麵包. Ya=屋. 我們平常吃的午餐就是由船泊鎮上麵包店的老闆幫我們送過來的. 當他出現的時就代表午餐時間就要到了. 


海豹
沒錯, 海豹. 禮文島有很多很多的海豹而且都離海邊滿近的. 其實早上大概5,6點的時候就聽得到他們在叫. 走在路上的時候其實也看得到牠們不過就長得有點像石頭. 他們對人其實還滿好奇的. 像Tudor在游泳的時候還會主動游到人附近.

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日本旅Spirited Away in Japan Episode 15

Previously....
Drunks invited us to go drink with them.

It was the day for matsuri but we had to dig.... If I remember correctly, Dr.Weber made us a deal saying that  we could go to the matsuri in the afternoon in exchange for working half a day the day after(Sunday). Honestly tho, I was too excited for this so I didn't write anything down in my diary about the dig lol so I'm just going to skip ahead to the matsuri part.

We got back to the hotel and went to the town center where we saw the mikoshi, the most important thing in a Shinto jinsha (i have no idea how to describe this in English) on a truck being driven further into town. The mikoshi carrying started on the street where Marine Mart is located (there's only one street anyway) and it was the kids who were doing the carrying. 

When I showed the video to my grandparents, they said he did the same thing and yelled out the same exact things too.

The dancing part was really cool too and you could tell there would always be the kids who dance a bit slower than the others. After it was done, the mikoshi was once again loaded up to the truck and was driven to the elementary school in Funadomari and that was where the main event would be.

We walked to the school which was about less than 5 minutes away from Marine Mart. This time, it was the younger kids who had to dance. According to Chen, when the kids were dancing, one of them apparently peed himself and his mom had to take away from the group LOL OWNED! It was great to see the kids though especially one this island of less than 3000 people. After the event, we walked around the school square for some food. There were yakitori, takoyaki, yakisoba, hot dog, and shaved ice. I think I ate all of them except the noodle.

Chen and I went to the beach after the school's event. We took a walk along the beach and it was interesting to see the sand there was mainly made out of broken shells. We saw the park near our hotel and that park and some interesting playthings....like something with an octopus shaped thingy. I really enjoyed that walk probably because the day was a good one and we just had a lot of food too and maybe, just maybe walking along the beach reminded me of my childhood of playing on the beach of Hsinchu. We later saw Maeda san, Takafumi, and Dai on the beach. We started talking and together we walked toward Kafuka town center again. Maeda san told Chen and I that she thought we were a couple then I laughed. I said Chen got a crush on Shota and I told them about Ms.*F. We ended back at Marine Mart again and this time I bought a ramune because it was so nostalgic. I tried to open but i ended up with the soda all over my shirt. Chen gave me a look like I was some kind of an idiot. Hmmm....I don't disagree with her. I also bought 2 dorayaki, one is chocolate flavor and the other is cheese flavor. Chen and I learned some Japanese from them and we began to grow more familiar with them and I think it was that day on that we started calling Maeda san, Toshiko san instead (will be referring to her as Toshiko san from now on in the future entries). We went back to the hotel after then I remembered there was another matsuri at Hamanaka's elementary school, at first, we weren't going to go but we thought we probably wouldn't have another chance so we went anyway. On the way there, there were a lot of caterpillars on the road, probably was the season for them or something. There were some pretty fat ones and I was yelling, "Chen, check this one out! It's huge!" or "There are so many of them!" Let's just say she was not a fan of them at all. We got to the school which was about a few minutes away from our digging site. We went in and saw Shuu at the yakitori stand and today he was actually sober. He said hello and we stayed at the school for a while to check out the games. When we were going to leave, I wanted to buy yakitori from Shuu but he wouldn't take my money so he just gave it to me for free. It tasted better than the one than Kafuka's. When we left, there was a little boy who knew we were foreigners and started shooting me with his toy gun thing. I didn't do anything back but Chen started chasing him.

 

When we got back to the hotel, we saw a police officer there, uh oh busted. No, actually, someone from our group found some money at the Kafuka elementary school so the police just came to record down some information.  Our dinner was spectacular as usual and probably even more so than before. We had a famous Hokkaido dish, Genghis Khan Dish. It's lamb stewed in pot and it's quite a popular dish across Hokkaido. After dinner, Toshiko san were teaching us Japanese at the hotel lobby.

Every fun day had to end and I went to bed at around 10 something.



To be Continued...
  
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祭典之日...可是我們還是得繼續做我們的進度. 沒記錯的話, Dr. Weber 答應我們下午可以去祭典只要我們明天(星期天)挖半天. 雖然我們還是有去遺址挖了個半天可是我對那天挖到什麼卻什麼都記不得, 因為我對祭典的印象比較深刻. 那我就直接跳到祭典那邊吧.

我們回到旅館的時候, 我們一群外人就走到了鎮中心準備看祭典. 在路上的時候我們又看到一座神轎在卡車上開往船泊的小山丘. 我們到鎮中心的時候, 就已經看到一些高年級的小學生在抬剛才的神轎. 他們會在一些特定的商店停下來然後特別說以寫感謝及多多指教的話. 接下來當他們把神轎抬到Marine Mart對面的小廣場時, 那群小鬼開始跳兩種傳統的日本舞蹈. 我想他們因改在學校練了很久吧? 可是還是看得出來有幾個久不管怎樣都有點跟不太上節奏 (笑). 跳完後, 打人就又把神交給載走了, 小孩們也上了車不曉得被載到哪裡去. 我記得有幾個看到我們這些外國人還和燦爛的笑著跟我們揮手而去.
 

我們路過船泊小學的時候又看到他們那邊有擺攤子所以當時覺得神轎因該是被在到那裡去了. 我們到小學的時候, 攤子也已經都設好了可是大家事等著看低年級的準備跳舞. 跳的其實跟高年級的是大同小異啦只不過還有個小插曲就是了. 陳小姐說其中一個小還好想跳的時候好像不小心拉尿了所以被他媽媽拉到旁邊...好像還真的有點糗. 他們跳完後, 我就去攤子前買了很多吃的像串燒啦, 章魚燒, 熱狗, 刨冰. 我還看到撈金魚的遊戲, 有點懷念的說. 而且那時候看到的時候讓我想到了一個問題. 撈金魚是從日本傳到台灣的嗎???

 

  

 

吃完後, 我跟陳小姐一起走到海邊散步. 我那時候起時還滿後悔沒有帶拖鞋, 我又不像再穿旅館的血腥拖鞋, 所以我也只好涉水而過. 我那時候有跟陳小姐談到某些事讓我覺得她真的是個很特別的女生, 至於話題是什麼呢? 我也不知道, 我只是在日記裡有記載到這一段而已. 我們之後看到前田小姐, Takafumi, Dai他們也在散步. 我們開始跟他們聊天結果前田小姐跟我們兩個說他以為我們是一對. 哈哈哈. 我跟他說了關於新*小姐的事然後我也很自然的說出陳小姐覺得Shota很可愛 ㄎㄎㄎ. 我們5 個人之後走回到船泊鎮中心, 我們大家在Marine Mart買了一些吃的. 我個人買了2 個銅鑼燒(起司, 巧克力)還有彈珠汽水. 我在開彈珠汽水的時候還不小心把汽水噴到我身上. 當時陳小姐還給了我一個"你這個白癡"的眼神. 我們回到旅館的時候稍微休息了一下. 之後我跟陳小姐又走去離我們遺址很近的濱中小學(不確定名字所以這樣稱呼)辦的祭典. 我們路上發現很多毛毛蟲而我一直說像你看你看 這隻好肥喔~之類的話. 我好像還有支樹根把一隻毛毛蟲舉起來給他看. 不知不覺的我們就走到了濱中小學, 他們的祭典是辦在體育館裡然後我們一進去就看到Shuu桑再考串燒. 他看到我們也跟我們打了一聲招呼, 看樣子他前一天並沒有喝的那麼醉. 我們在會場裡繞了幾圈, 跟船泊的攤子其實都差不多. 陳小姐買了一份薯條吃, 看他在照片裡的樣子, 那薯條應該是滿好吃的才對. 我們要走的時候, 我掏出錢要跟Shuu桑買串燒來吃可是他就不肯收我的錢. 我跟他說了聲謝謝, 我們就往回旅館走. 我們還在濱中小學的操場的時候, 有一個小男孩跑過來跟我們說 "外國人 &%^*&*&(^%$#" 我只有聽到他說外國人什麼什麼的. 結果他開始用他的玩具槍射我. 我事沒有做什麼反應啦 可是陳小姐反而開始追著他跑.

我們回到旅館的時候發現有個警察在那裡後來時說我們這群中有個人在船泊小學那裡撿到錢而那位警察只是來做一些筆錄而已. 我們晚餐的時候有吃北海道很有名的成吉思汗鍋, 基本上就是把羊肉還有其他蔬菜放在鍋子裡面悶烤. 雖然看似簡單可是卻比遠比我想的還美味.
晚餐過後, 我們許多人在大廳上前田小姐的基礎日文. 好像也是從那天起我也開始稱呼他為Toshiko桑.

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