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.

>>

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!


續

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 Episode 13

當天起來在等著吃早餐時, 我看到Seung-wan下樓可是我被他嚇了一跳. 他的臉變超級腫的. 他臉頰以下變得像那種水泡眼睛金魚一樣腫, 雖然有點好笑可是那時候大家都很擔心為什麼會這樣. 他說可能是因為來日本之前剛拔了智齒所以可能有被感染. 他打回美國問他的醫生爸爸問事發生了什麼事. 他爸說那就因該是被感染了. 禮文島島上並沒有自己的牙醫診所所以都是靠每個禮拜從稚內來一次的牙醫診斷. 不過很幸運的事剛好當天會來.

當天挖掘挖得很辛苦因為很熱....而且把沙包丟到沙包山也越來越難. 那小山已經變得快比人還高了, 我們於是做了個小階梯上去才能把沙包丟上去. 雖然很辛苦不過我覺得Seung-wan他真的很厲害, 臉都腫成那樣竟然還繼續跟著我們一起挖. 下午, 教授載Seung-wan去看牙醫而我們則是繼續我們的進度. 我們再挖的時候, Erin Bird挖到了一個早期照和時代用的油燈(是路過的當地人跟我們說的). 特殊是特殊啦可是這也代表我們還挖的不夠快, 不夠深. 

sandbag pile/沙包山

回旅館後, Seung-wan的精神已經好很多了. 記得沒錯的話, 他說醫生有給她抗生素. 我們一行人去市中心的超級市場買東西. 超市叫Marine Mart, 是當地人最常光顧的店.  Seung-wan買了一罐泡菜因為他說泡菜是他最喜歡吃的東西而且不管什麼時候都吃得下. 有時候我真的忘了他其實是個韓國人.  

果然沒錯, 晚餐的時候他還是一樣大吃特吃而且輕輕鬆鬆就把一整罐泡菜給吃下肚.  晚餐, 我們是吃很豐盛的便當不過我們是在比較小的大廳吃因為有其他的旅客下住.

晚餐後, 我坐在大廳裡用電腦. 我發現Shota的包包上有個New Era的貼紙所以我問他是不是喜歡那個公司的東西. 他說對而我回他說我也喜歡. 我還給他看我收集的帽子照片. 他看的也覺得很有趣, 他也很我說他有參加New Era Japan辦的抽獎而且還真的得了一個包包. 他也很好心的介給我他的New Era目錄給我, 雖然我並沒有跟他說我想看.  當天晚上前田小姐要我們把我們的名字寫下. 看來他們也發現稱呼名字比較實用 哈哈哈.

續


When I was waiting for breakfast at the lobby, I saw Seung-wan walking down from upstairs and I was like WTF!? Her face from cheek down was so swollen. It kind of reminded me of those goldfish with those baggy eyes. She said it might had been caused by infection because she got her wisdom tooth(teeth?)pulled before coming to Japan. She confirmed it when she called her dad who is a doctor in America. If I remember correctly, Rebun Island doesn't have its own dentistry. So, they had to rely on the weekly dentist visit from Wakkanai but lucky for Seung-wan, that day was the day when the dentist would be in Rebun.

The dig was getting more tiresome because of the increasing heat as well as that annoying duty of carrying sandbag to the little sandbag mountain we had built. It was getting so high that we had to arrange some sandbags to be used as stairs so we could put more bags on it. What really impressed me the most that day was Seung-wan still stuck around digging with us with her condition and all. In the afternoon, the professor drove her to the local clinic to see the dentist while we pressed on with our work. Erin Bird found an oil lamp from early Showa Period and I learned that from 2 locals who were checking to see what we were doing. The lamp was cool and all but since it was there meant that we hadn't dug deep enough yet.

When we got back to the hotel, Seung-wan was in a much better spirit. We (loads of people) went further into town to go to the super market, Marine Mart, for food. Seung-wan said she wanted to eat Kimchi saying she could eat that no matter under any circumstances. So, she bought a big can of kimchi but as for me, I stuck to my candy-buying routine. 

True to her words, Seung-wan ate the whole can of kimchi LOL. At least she had the appetite which is always good. 

After dinner, we sat at the lobby area. I saw Shota's bag had a New Era sticker on it so I asked him if he liked the brand. He said yes, so I showed him my collection of New Era hats. He then showed me his New Era bag which was won from a prize draw. He was kind enough to let me borrow his book on New Era even though I didn't ask for it lol. I think around the same time, Maeda san asked us to write our names down on a sheet of paper, probably thought it would be easier to call us by names huh?

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 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

續




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....