日本旅Spirited Away in Japan Episode 11

做了2個奇怪的夢. 我夢到陳小姐在 Footlocker上班! 接下來竟然夢到我想說如果陳小姐是我的女朋友我會怎麼辦. 唉. ...竟然有這種對新*小姐不敬的想法. 第2個夢是夢到新*小姐在我看的道地方傳簡訊給我可是不知為何, 不管我怎麼想要接近他, 他反而是離我越來越遠. 就這樣莫名其妙的醒來了只不過這兩個夢讓我的心情不是很好.

當天的天氣也不是很好可是我們還是決定開挖因為就是怕進度落後. 開始挖的時候真的好冷, 風又大, 地上又溼答答的. 我記得以前念書的時候有個教授就曾經形容過這種情況, 沒想到這次真的被我遇到了. 我們決定開始更有系統性的挖掘因為我們已經接觸到文化層了. 開挖前, 我發現我竟然忘了帶我的手套而且我還挑一個下雨天忘了帶. 我挖到了一個脊椎骨部份的軟骨不過長的好特別喔, 讓我覺得好像是挖到不同的東西. 我問了Hugh那到底是什麼動物的骨頭因為實在是比人的還要大多了.  結果Hugh他也不確定到底是什麼動物的. 

bone/我挖的

當天由於雨越下越大的關係, 我們提早我們的午餐時間.

下午的狀況就好很多只不過起了霧而已. Seung-wan開始跟大家說我配不上新*小姐. 說我們是美女與宅男. 不久後, 又開始下雨了 不過我們也還是硬著頭皮繼續挖. 其他人在另外一個坑裡好像挖到了頭骨跟犬牙. 我這一坑還是只有我挖到的那個奇怪的骨頭而已.可是到最後還是敵不過大自然, 我們提早1個小時收工.

the pit/挖掘現場

一回到房間我們發現房間裡有很多螞蟻爬來爬去.  我跟前田小姐反應說房間好像有螞蟻問題, 他後來回我說旅館夏天偶爾會有這種問題可是他們一定會處理好. 我幫陳小姐在我電腦禮建立我漫畫的捷徑只因為我不想他亂碰我的naughty files.

當天晚餐跟平常一樣有許多海鮮比如說, 鹽烤蝦子, 生魚片, chan chan yaki(北北海道的地方料理), 花枝沙拉.  前田小姐還幫我們剝蝦殼, 日本的服務果然是不一樣的.  晚上的時候我待在陳小姐的房間跟他還有Seung-wan一起看一個滿有趣的電視節目. 是關於一位太太殺害她先生的過程. 雖然有點奇怪可是我們也看的好起來.

晚餐時間/dinner time

chan chan yaki/ちゃんちゃん焼き

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I had 2 strange dreams. The first dream was about Chen working at footlocker. The second dream was about Ms.*F. The dreams weren't particularly pleasant so I woke up with a horrible mood and not to mention it was about 4am, an hour earlier than my usual wake up time.

The weather was still miserable but we decided to carry out the dig anyway because we don't want to fall behind on the schedule. That day was especially cold, windy, and wet and what made it worse was that I forgot to bring my gloves. In the first half of the dig, I dug up a weird bone that belonged to a part of the vertebrate. It was a lot bigger than what I have seen from the human skeletons that I had learned a few years  back, so I asked Hugh what the bone was. He said he wasn't sure but probably belonged to a marine mammal. The rain was heavy enough that we had to go to lunch 30minutes earlier than usual. During the afternoon dig, the weather cleared up a bit as it was only misty. Seung-wan was saying out loud to everyone that Ms.*F is way too pretty for me..... I don't disagree. On the other side, people seemed to have found fragments of a skull and a definite canine but unfortunately my side was still pretty boring. The rain eventually returned so we called off the dig an hour early.

pits/坑

excavating/挖掘中

When I got back to my room, I noticed there were a lot of ants crawling near the window. I told Maeda san about the problem. She said the hotel has this issue every summer but they would do their best to get rid of them. Before dinner, I made shortcuts to my comic files on my computer because I didn't want Chen to touch my naughty files.

lobby/大廳

Our dinner for that night was seafood as usual including a regional dish called chan chan yaki. That dish is about having fish, fish cake, cabbage simmer in a small pot and I think miso is used for marination. That night , we(Seung-wan, Chen, me) were watched a show about a crazy wife who plotted a murder for her husband. It was pretty ridiculous but we had a good time.

grubs/食物

That's it for that day.


To be Continued....

日本旅Spirited Away in Japan Episode6

上回發生了甚麼事呢?

終於到了禮問島...不愧是鄉下中的鄉下..

故事開始

我們到的時候就馬上開始分房間. 我, Joran, Ed 分同一間. 雖然已經是大學生了不過還是有照性別來分就是了. 可是我還是滿期待著看誰跟誰會湊出甚麼事來 哈哈哈. 我們三個人的房間其實也不算小. 喔, 是日式的所以我們已開始穿這鞋子到榻榻米時就被旅館人員很有禮貌性的念了一下. 而我也終於有時間可以檢查我行李裡面的東西到底有沒有少........沒有少! 錢一點都沒少! 太棒了!!!!

整理好不久後, 我們就被叫去吃晚餐了.

我發現旅館員工好像有一位女生會說英文因為他看起來好像都聽得懂我們再說什麼.

吃飯的地方是在一個大廳裡(算是啦). 我們是坐在榻榻米上面等全員到齊. 菜都已經上好了而且....真的....看起來超好吃! 有螃蟹, 生魚片, 湯之類的東西. 用這麼好的東西來歡迎我們實在是太讚了! 那個螃蟹.....不是北海道3大螃蟹之一嗎? 太厲害了! 我當時真的沒想到會用這些那麼好的料來迎接我們所以我沒把我的相機帶著. 太可恨啦!!!!!

我們在吃飯的時候也順便做了自我介紹. 當時的團隊應該有大概20人左右. 曾經介紹過的我就跳過去嘍~

Amanda Gomes- Amanda 是美國人從Pennsylvania來的可是他會說日文喔~ 曾在University of Hawaii念過書而且他跟Tom似乎很早以前就認識了.

Erin Jessup- 就是在船上認識的Big Erin. 目前在UofA念碩士.

Nikki Burt-美國人. 目前在UofA念碩士.

Lindsey Friedman- 就是當時給我船票的人. 美國人可是他在劍橋大學念博士中. 是因為這樣造成她的英文講的要的奇怪嗎? 美國腔可是又帶著庭的滿清楚的英國腔.

Kathryn Reusch- 一個在牛津大學念博士的美國人.

Katie Waterhorse- 在UofA念博士的Swaziland人(在南非中的一個國家). 有著很奇妙的腔調. 

Jess Egan-在劍橋的一年級生. 只有19歲而已! 其是他在我們到稚內時就已經到那裡了可是沒有跟我們一樣沒有在外面趴趴走.

Daniela Pozo- 就讀UofA的二年級生(其實是3年級我是大概半年後才知道的). 在那裡是個子最小的.

果然....真的有很多高才生

教授有....
Dr. Weber- 這個project的主要負責人. 在UofA教書. 波蘭人. 會說3終語言, 英文, 波蘭文, 俄羅斯文
加藤教授- 加藤教授是在北海道大學擔任教授. 他也會說3種語言. 日文, 英文, 俄羅斯文. 名字念法是Kato. 我們稱呼他為Kato Sensei.
Hugh- 我到現在還是不知道他姓什麼....加拿大人.
Dustin- .....我也不知道Dustin姓什麼....美國人.

教授說明天開始就要田野活動了. 7點吃早飯. 8點半開始挖掘. 12點-1點無休. 4點結束. 星期1-6都要工作.欸? 奇怪. 我記得工作介紹是說周末放假,我聽到別人也在討論這件事所以看來不是只有我一個人有這種想法. 還有一件事....而且是一件很重要的事. 我們房間沒有廁所/浴室所以教授說要洗澡是大家都要去大澡堂洗. 大澡堂還是有男女之分就是了. 吃完飯的時候, 我去大澡堂洗澡結果就很碰巧的遇見Dustin在裡面.尷尬.....不過我也很驚訝就時他已經記得我的名字了.洗完後, 我終於有機會換衣服了. 第一次覺得有換洗衣服是很幸福的事.

之後, 我, Joran, Seung-wan, Ingrid, 好像也有Erin Bird.....我們幾個人出門散個步. 要過馬路是我差點被車撞. 因為我真的習慣先看左邊再看右邊可是在日本是完全相反的啊! 真的快被嚇死了....明明在稚內還好好的說....
 

可是散步開始不久後天馬上就黑了, 而且那裡晚上是全黑的.然後不知道誰先開始的, 我們開始說鬼故事, 沒記錯的話應該是Seung-wan. 好像說了一個老太太在做人肉包子還什麼的. 我們還冒著黑爬到旅館對面的小丘. 可是真的因為那邊沒有甚麼東西可以看所以爬完後我們就回旅館了.

回旅館後我們開始在客廳裡聊天. 聊什麼我已經忘了不過聊到10點, 老闆娘就出來說要關燈了. 就這樣,結束了我們在禮文島上的第一天.


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Last time....

We had finally arrived! No more plane or ferry rides!

Back to the story

The first we did when we got there was to decide on the rooms and the roommates. Joran, Ed, and I would share the room together. The testosterone-filled room was a Japanese style one. It was a decent sized room for the three of us and we all had our own space to our stuff. When we were unloading out luggage, I finally had the chance to check for the things in my suitcase......I......did not lost a single thing!

Not long after we sorted thing out in the room, we were called downstairs for dinner.

I realized that one of the hotel staff might know English because she seemed to understand what was going on and what we were talking about.

Dinner.....was just awesome. We had crabs, sashimi, and all sorts of things. I just love seafood! Back then I thought this was a good meal to welcome us because I thought we would be eating bread all the time.

We also did another round of introduction at dinner.

Amanda Gomes- An American who could speak Japanese. She had studied in Kyushu before and knew Tom prior to this project.
Erin Jessup- Big Erin is doing her master at UofA. She is really skinny!
Nikki Burt- An American doing her phd at UofA.
Lindsey Friedman- An American who is doing her doctoral at Cambridge. Maybe it's because of the studying in England thing, so her English got a mixture of both countries.
Kathryn Reusch- An American who is doing her doctoral at Oxford. Unlike Lindsey, she talks "normally."
Katie Waterhorse- She is from Swaziland. Her accent is funky! It's like Leonardo DiCaprio's in Blood Diamond!
Jess Egan- She just finished her first year at Cambridge and is the youngest one from the dig. Oh and she is British.
Daniela Pozo- Second year student from UofA(actually third....but I didn't know that til 6months later) and I think she is the smallest person from the dig(stature wise).

Professors
Dr. Weber- The director of the project. He speaks Polish, English, and Russian. He teaches at UofA.
Hugh- A Candian. (I forgot his last name.......or rather I never found out his last name)
Dustin- An American. (same as Hugh, see above.)
Kato Sensei- Kato Sensei teaches at Hokkaido University and knows Japanese, English, and Russian. We usually just call him, Kato Sensei.

During the dinner, the professors told us that the project would start the next day and went over the details. Breakfast would be at 7, start the dig at 8:30, lunch from 12-1, finish at 4. They also said we would work 6 days a week and I thought, wait, didn't the project description said we had the weekend off? I heard some murmur and realized others were thinking about that too. One other announcement was the communal bath! One big bath for people to go. That means seeing other people naked.

After dinner, I went to take a shower at the communal bath. Just my luck, Dustin was there. Right......awkward. I was surprised and impressed that he already remembered my name and which school I graduated from. Later, I FINALLY changed into my new clothes. It was like a dream come true having something new to wear.

We (Joran, Ingrid, Seung-wan, and I. Erin Bird was there too?) went for a walk later that night. I almost got hit by a car when we were crossing the road. I completely forgot that cars drive the opposite way in Japan. I really thought I could get used to it since I didn't have any trouble in Wakkanai. There weren't a lot of things to see and everything was pitch dark so we didn't stay out very long but we did manage to talk about a horror story involving an old lady and meat buns (at least that's how I remembered it). We also went up to the little hill across from the hotel and because there was nothing to see so we back to the hotel right after.

We stayed in the lobby and chatted until 10, when the hotel owner's wife came out and said it was lights out time. With that, we ended our first day on Rebun.


To be Continued...