日本旅Spirited Away in Japan Episode 14

5點準時起床.

當天挖掘時, 多了一件很....吵的事. 還不到12點的時候, 挖掘現場旁邊的住宅傳出了陣陣的大笑聲. 一開始還不覺得有什麼大不了的, 可是他們一直在笑..一直一直. 所以大家很合理的推理出他們上午就在喝酒. 原本以為午飯後他們就回去睡午覺還什麼的可是並沒有, 下午的時候他們也還是繼續喝酒. 忘記是誰說的不過由於隔天有祭典, 所以大家已經開始於所準備了(準備就是喝酒). 他們也好像注意到我們這群外人*在後院不曉得在種菜還是在挖什麼的, 其中幾位走到我們這裡來看我們到底在幹嘛. 他們看我們在做的事也很感興趣, 他們還邀我們收工時去神社跟他們一起喝酒. 教授他們當時是覺得有點不妥因為他們已經滿醉了, 誰知道他們會對我們做什麼事. 我那時候是覺得不會怎樣啦只是覺得酒駕好像不太好ㄟ.... 收工的時候也因為ㄠ不過他們於是我們也被般被逼迫的去了一趟神社. 雖然其中一位說可以載我們一些人去可是大家都已經知道他已經醉的臉紅通通了.  Tomoda老師倒是很給面子, 他就坐在卡車後面載貨地方跟著他一起走.

 

大廳/lobby

 

開會/briefing

要出土的陶器/pottery

神社是在一個在山丘上靠海邊的地方. 而神社拜的是狐狸所以就當然是稻荷神社啦. 我們到神社的時候已經有幾個人在那裏喝酒吃東西了. 他們也很好客的招待我們就怕我們不吃不喝. 其中一位酒駕先生問了我一些問題, 像是大家是從哪裡來之類的. 我跟他說我是台灣人, 他還跟我說台灣是個好地方, 我問說他有去過台灣嗎? 他回說沒有. 哈哈哈哈, 我想也是. 他還問我了我那個最漂亮的可愛女生是誰然後他是從哪裡來的. 我跟他說那位是英國來的Jess而且才19歲而已.  他還跟我解釋說鰻魚的骨頭也可以吃......老兄......這在台灣也有啊. 他跟我說他叫Shuu. Amanda說Shuu桑是當地小學的PTA會長. 我聽到就傻眼. PTA會長還酒駕??? 要走時, 我們一行人也拍了張照片做為紀念. 我覺得是這趟旅行最有fu的照片之一. 要回去的時候, Shuu很好心幫我們指揮倒車可是他差點害我們掉下小坡...他也沒有緊張或有歉意, 還是一樣嘻皮笑臉的跟我們說再見. 我只能說Shuu桑, 你醉了.

Jinsha/神社

神社上的view/View from the Jinsha

food/吃的

回旅館後發現網路已經搭好了. Dr. Weber在晚餐的時候跟我們說雖然他知道我們都很想去看祭典不過因為要趕工所以就沒辦法了. 有點小失望不過至少在神社度過了難忘的一天.而我當天的日記就以我邊喝可爾必思邊寫著日記結束了.

續 

Got up at the usual 5am.

What was different about the dig that day was that there a bunch of loud drunks at the house next to us. When we were doing our usual digging, we heard loud, loud laughter. We thought it was kind of strange but we didn't pay much attention to them until we realized that they hadn't stop laughing in the whole morning. The inevitable conclusion was they were drunk even before noon. It was either Tomoda or Kato sensei who told us there was a matsuri (festival) the day after so they were just preparing for that....by getting drunk. Even after lunch, they were still drinking and laughing. I noticed one of them looked at us and soon, they all came to check out what we were doing. They invited us to go drink with them after the dig even though we had our doubts, for example, they were drunk and they offered to drive us there. Right..... They really insisted so we couldn't say no so we went after work. 

corpses/屍體

Todo Island/海獅島(todo=海獅)

We went on our usual van but Tomoda sensei rode on the back of those drunks' truck. Sigh.....he did that just for us lol. The shrine is located at a small hill by a small dock. It was a fox worshipping jinsha called, "Inari Jinsha." These kinds of fox worshipping shrines are located throughout Japan with the center being at the one in Kyoto. We got invited into the shrine where they had food and beer. One of the drunks introduced to me as Shuu. Amanda said Shuu is the PTA president at the local elementary school. I was like wow.....PTA president was DUI. He was asking me where about where we were from. I said I was from Taiwan then he said Taiwan is a nice place. I asked him had he ever been there before and he said no. LOL He also asked me who the "cute girl" was. I said that girl's name was Jess and she was only 19. So before we left, we took a group photo which I think it's one of the best picture that I have. So, Shuu was giving us directions for backing our car but I think he was too drunk to give us the correct direction since we almost fell from the little hill. It was cool tho for him......since he was all smiles

Tom drinking. Daniela smiling.

Amanda&Shuu

local kids/當地的小孩

By the time we got back to the hotel, the internet was set up. All of us were really looking forward to the matsuri but Dr. Weber said we still had work to do so going there was out of the question. We were really disappointed but at least we had a great day. I ended my diary of the day with this sentence, "Now hanging out in lobby doing nothing except this and drinking calpis."




To be Continued 

日本旅Spirited Away in Japan Episode 12

補充....

沒記錯的其是上一篇當天晚上晚餐來了另外2位日本的考古學家.一位叫Tomoda. 另一位....我忘了他名字. 因為他們是我們的前輩說以我們也跟著稱呼他們為老師.

故事再開

6點起來果然比4,5點起床還來得舒服況且當天的天氣比昨天好太多了. 當天的天氣是那種藍帶白的魅力十足的夏天. 早餐跟平常差不多不過日及有特別記載我是怎麼吃蛋的. 蛋是那種半生不熟還帶有點腥味的傳統日式早點. 我是把醬油倒進蛋裡再搭配白飯. 簡單又好吃. 

Eggy/蛋

 挖掘進度跟前一天差不多只不過離外一邊開始挖了一個測試用的坑. 測試坑裡發現了許多海洋哺乳類動物的骨頭還有數不清的魚骨. 我們也開始把覺得挖掘到特殊的東西聚集起來分類. 

當天的午餐可是比平常還久. 因為Tomoda老師帶了他母校的餅乾來給我們吃. 他說他跟加藤老師一樣是念北海道大學的可是不知為何餅乾的包裝是寫札幌農學校不過我不久後就會知道了. 出了餅乾外, 午餐還有炸蝦漢堡~ 吃完了豐盛的午餐後, 我們又開始了下午的挖掘.

沙拉+炸蝦漢堡/sala+ebi burger

好吃的夾心餅乾/cookie from Hokkaido University

 收工後, 我穿這旅館的拖鞋走去雜貨店買零食. 不曉得是不合身還是什麼的可是那雙拖鞋真的讓我的腳很痛. 通也就算了而且到雜貨店的時候才發現沒開...... 走回旅館的時候我發現腳已經開始流血了. 我想說那乾脆去找其他人好了, 可是走到哪裡都沒看到人.

晚餐是螃蟹大餐. 可惜的是......我對螃蟹過敏. 廚房的人很好心的幫我準備了照燒豬肉而且大家也分給我他們的生魚片. 晚餐出了那些以外還有海膽. 其是之前也有吃可是剛好都沒有機會照到. 大部分的人都不太敢吃海膽所以他們都回分給我~ 禮文島的海膽可是日本最高級的欸(是將太的壽司裡說的)一群糟蹋美食的傢伙. 哈哈

小碟子裡裝的是海膽/yumm

睡覺前, 我很仔細的盯著鏡子裡的我看. 我發現自從離開溫哥華後, 我都沒有刮過鬍子,  所以已經打破我自己個人的記錄了, 就看看我什麼時候才會受不了吧.

續

In the previous entry, I forgot to mention that two Japanese archaeologists joined us. One is Tomoda sensei and the other one.....I forgot his name.

Anyways

I got up at around 6 which felt a lot better than waking up at 4 or 5. The day was a good one too, a lot better than the previous miserable day. Judging from my photo I guess I had egg for breakfast and with that I always pour in some soy sauce then add it to my rice. Simple but delicious.

The digging was the same as before but we started a test pit in which we found tons of marine mammal bones. I'm not sure when we started putting finds in bags but I think it began around that time or so.

Tomoda sensei/Tomoda 老師

Good day

Lunch was slightly longer than usual because Tomoda sensei brought us some cookies from his old school, Hokkaido University. On the label, it reads, "Sapporo Agricultural School." Strange, that's a weird name. We also had salad and shrimp burger and that burger was to die for~~~ easily the best lunch we had.

Sean, Jess, Seung-wan, Joran

海的彼方

After work, I went to the grocery store while wearing the sandals from the hotel. I think it was the wrong size so it felt pretty painful the whole way. I walked in pain and got to the store but turned out it was closed for the day. I decided to walk back to the hotel and I remembered people said they were going out for a walk. I looked for my friends but couldn't find them with m bloody toe.

Dinner was a crab feast but due to my allergy, I could only watch people enjoying them >_<! Luckily, the kitchen gave me replacement food, ginger pork.....I guess that was better? I gave my king crab to Chen and in turn she gave me her sashimi, well a lot of people gave me their sashimi. We also had uni and since most people didn't like them so I took their share. Hahaha.

Before I went to bed, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I hadn't shaved since I left Vancouver.



To be Continued...

日本旅Spirited Away in Japan Episode 10

上回提要
因為日記寫得很爛所以沒寫什麼

 可是這次的也沒好到哪裡去

故事再開

"鐺鐺鐺鐺鐺鐺鐺鐺鐺鐺鐺鐺"

 ................6點, 而我終於不是被廣播給吵醒. 這次是被Sean的鬧鐘吵醒. 不過多睡了2,3個小時感覺真的挺棒的. 吃早餐時, 教授宣布當天挖掘活動因雨取消.

早餐/breakfast

耶! 放假嘍 ! 雖然下雨不過有放假就好!

Ed他們又在房間看權力遊戲所以我在陳小姐房間度過了上午. 他問了關於新*小姐的事而我也有問必答.
"你是怎麼跟他告白的?"
"就是吃完晚餐的時候. 我們在公車上, 我想假如不照一個話題的話那他就會先下車. 我跟他說我有東西給他, 其是那時候我也不知道要給他什麼只到後來我才想到把我一頂在紐約買的小帽子給他. 我跟他說我陪她一起走回他家, 就在要到他家轉角前, 我覺得再不說的話就沒機會了. 我跟他說我真的很喜歡他. 他停頓了一下, 他看著我問我說我有多喜歡他. (接下了的話很難翻所以我直接用英文) I said that I liker more than all the stars in the world. 他問世界上有多少星星. 我說上千萬, 上億吧. 我接著說I like you deeper than all the oceans combined. 他說那好像有點難懂. 我說或許吧可是我還是想跟他說. 我們倆有停頓了一會兒, 我跟他說是給我答案的時候了. 他問我說我願意等他嗎? 因為他要離開溫哥華幾個月所以他問我那個. 我說我願意. 於是他臉紅的跟我說好."

.......................

我們今天午餐事可樂餅漢堡,莎拉,豬排. 放在旁邊櫃子上有好幾隻大螃蟹. 大家都大概知道晚餐會吃什麼了.

食物/food

午餐後雖然下著大雨可是我還是去了雜貨店一趟. 去之前我問了大家有沒有要買什麼. Jess跟我說他想買無尾熊餅乾. 我就知道他喜歡吃那個不過老實說我也沒有遇過不喜歡無尾熊餅乾的人. 我買了Jess要的巧克力還有我自己選的3種明治巧克力. 不知道是因為沒有做什麼事的緣故, 我那個下午真的睏到不行害我又爬回去睡了2個小時的午覺.

要注意小孩會"飛"到馬路上喔/kinda funny sign

晚餐. 沒錯, 的確有螃蟹可是不是中午看到而是腳長長的那種.其實我對螃蟹過敏, 我跟前天小姐說了一聲, 他們廚房馬上端了一盤肉給喔. 我把我的螃蟹給了陳小姐(我對他很好吧?). 另外的主菜是漢堡肉. 小菜有豆腐配鹹鹹的昆布, 海鮮沙拉.水果是北海道有名的哈密瓜. 他們還很貼心的把頂端的皮給切掉然後卡在果肉和後半部的皮中間, 這樣的話我們可以吃得比較乾淨也不會把手弄得黏黏的.

Dinner/晚餐

 

我, 陳小姐, Seung-wan在他們的房間待了一整晚. 我給他們看了新*小姐的照片. 他們兩個都同意我完完全全配不上他. 他等級比我高太多了. 哈哈哈哈 謝謝兩位對我這麼誠實.

那天就這樣結束了.



續

我保證下一篇會稍微長一點.....



Previously
I didn't write that much because my diary sucked.


This time is slightly better......slightly.

"Ding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

At least waking up to Sean's alarm at 6 was better than to the broadcast. I really felt the 2,3 extra hours that I got was awesome. I didn't feel like dying lol. When we were eating breakfast, the professors told us the dig was cancelled for the day due to the rain.

Well, how should I spend the day-off? Obviously, taking a walk wasn't an option so I spent the morning at Chen's room chatting with her. Once again, we talked about a lot of things and she started asking me some personal questions. I didn't feel I should hide anything from her so I answered everything she asked like....

"How did you tell her you like her?"
"We were on the bus after dinner, I knew if I didn't say anything then she would get off at her stop which was before mine. So, I told her that I had something for her back at my place. After I gave her the thing, I decided to walk her back to her place. At the corner around her place, I thought it was now or never. I told her I really like her. After a pause, she asked me how much I liked her. I said I liked her as much as the stars in the world. After a pause again, she asked me if I was willing to wait for her. I said yes. She blushed and said ok. I said I'd wait for her until she got back. When she was the door, I yelled I would wait."

Chen thought I was super corny.


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Our lunch were croquet burger, katsu, and salad. When we were eating, I noticed there were some big crabs sitting on the counter. Chances were they were going to be in our stomach for dinner.

In the afternoon, I asked if people wanted anything from the grocery store since I had just ran out of my stash of candies. Jess wanted the koala cookies( I knew she liked those). So I went out in pouring rain and got a lot of candies. I, personally, bought 3 kinds of Meiji milk chocolates. Even though I had extra hours of sleep but I still felt really sleepy in the afternoon so I took a 2hour nap.


At dinner, we had crabs but it wasn't the hairy big ones but those ones with long legs. I, unfortunately, am allergic to crabs so I gave mine to Chen. I told Maeda san about my allergy so she got the kitchen to bring me another dish instead. 

I was in Chen's room for the night. I showed how Ms.*F looked like to Chen and Seung-wan and they both agreed she's too pretty for me....ya assholes.




That wrapped up the day.




To be Continued.....

I promise the next entry will be longer.



 

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...