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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遇見了一位酒駕的PTA會長



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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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.

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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 Episode7

上回提要

大概認識了大家 然後差點被車撞.

再開

"#$&%*(^)&***&)^%^%$"

欸? 什麼鬼啊? 怎麼一大早就那麼吵? 廣播? 為甚麼在這個時間會有廣播? 對了, 現在幾點啦?

3點半......

不意外....畢竟跟稚內差不多. 試著睡回籠覺可是還是睡不著. 算了, 結果我出去散步. 一出門, 就看到前一晚"爬"的小丘. 原來是長這個樣子啊~ 我又再"登頂"了一次可是這次還是看不到什麼....霧有點給他濃. 我走到街上看到一家雜貨店, 原來我前一晚看到的事這家啊. 走著走著發現了一件事, 這邊有畫好多卡通人物提醒駕駛要遵守交通規則. 接下來, 我走到了一座湖畔. 讀了標示, 原來這個湖叫久種湖. 就是因為了久種湖, 所以附近霧氣在這麼重. 標示也說湖畔也有提供露營廣場, 不過那時我沒有看到任何一個人. 我注意到附近真的很吵, 為甚麼會吵呢? 就是因為我頭上有一隻烏鴉在飛, 而且那隻烏鴉好像看我不太爽, 一直往我頭俯衝. 我被逼走了之後發現湖的旁邊有一個小神社. 這個神社看起來好落寞....感覺像沒什麼人拜這個神社一樣. 就這樣什麼都沒做就5點了, 當我回旅館是以經有一些人起來了, 我問他們說有沒有聽到廣播可是他們都說沒有, 難道我瘋了嗎?

Lake side sign/標示

7點準是吃早餐. 出乎我的意料外, 早餐吃得是典型日式早餐. 一條魚 半生不熟的蛋, 醃烏賊, 醃菜, 味增湯, 當然少不了白飯.

吃飽後, 準備好考古需要的東西(鏟子, 手套, 防曬乳液, 水壺, 背包). 我們8點20左右坐車到濱中. 濱中離旅館大概開車只要不到5分鐘可是我們挖的地方是某位地主提供的後院. 我們做的第一件事就是先抹防曬乳液, 可是我想說白人比較容易曬傷我這個亞洲人就免了吧. 我們先把雜草處理乾淨. 在處理時, 我們其實也發現很多骨頭而且有些看起來是以風化許久的海類哺乳動物的骸骨. 我是怎麼知道的呢? 因為老實說.....我還記得以前上課的時候記得我又看過鯨魚的骨頭而且記得教授說過海洋哺乳類動物的骨頭長的很怪. 整理到大概10點左右, 我們正式開挖! 我們 把site分為2個4X5來挖. 挖不久後, 就馬上挖到貝殼, 看起來有點像生蠔的那種亮亮的殼. 我要喝水的時候發現水壺沒有關緊, 所以水痘漏光了. 唉...算了反正教授有帶水.我們再挖的時候常常挖到樹根而且那些根真的很難搞.要多費力和時間用鋸子割樹根因為絕對不行硬扯掉(不想去破壞層次).挖挖挖. 12點到了. 廣播開始在放Edelweis. 好可愛喔, 這個小鎮. 12點時還要用歌曲提醒大家.午餐是吃沙拉跟麵包, 我那時候有點失望, 因為晚餐和早餐吃得太好了, 現在叫我吃麵包實在是......唉, 不說了. 原本說每個人只能拿1個麵包結果我不小心拿了2個...對不起, 我真的不知道. 我們吃午餐是時在離挖掘地點大概走路1分鐘的一間社區中心. 從社區中心可以看到禮文島的海岸. 看到那有沖浪的海, 一波接著一波, 真的可以讓人放鬆許多.社區中心的廁所就....不是那麼的乾淨. 味道還滿重的....而且我不是說清潔劑的味道. 下午時, 天氣越變越熱...我想說email介紹不是說10-20度左右嗎? 怎麼感覺像30多度? 下午的進度還是一樣緩慢, 樹根真的太多了. 我看到陳小姐和Tudor一起在清理牠們的範圍. 那時候我很好奇陳小姐到底聽不聽得懂Tudor的腔. 我們就這樣挖到5點才收工. 回旅館的時候我聽到一些人在抱怨說腳很酸, 不過我倒是覺得還好,可能是因為我5,6月有在運動吧.

別人的後院/someone's backyard

下班後, 我走到那間雜貨店買了一些糖果(這次大部分是巧克力). 早上散步的時候我還沒注意到, 可是從路旁就可以看到利尻山. 每天可以看到這麼漂亮的山應該心情會很好吧? 我也跟大家說其實雜貨店裡旅館不遠, 大家可以去那裡買吃的.

回到旅館後, 我坐在大廳裡看報紙, 我記得陳小姐拿事後也在場. 加藤老師從販賣機禮買了一罐札幌啤酒然後開始跟我們兩個人說關於日本啤酒的事. 他說關西人喜歡喝朝日, 關東人喜歡喝麒麟, 而北海道人當然最喜歡的就是札幌啤酒. 我們兩個都覺得好奇怪喔, 為什麼他要跟我們說這個不過我們就因為這樣覺得加藤老師時一位很有趣的人.

哇~今天晚上也是超豪華的海鮮料理, 我們該不會以後都回吃這麼豐盛吧? 開開心心吃完後, 我去洗澡...可是很不巧又遇到了一個教授, 這次是Dr. Weber. 我在沖水的時候發現不曉得為甚麼皮膚好痛可是我想沒什麼大礙所以也沒有特別注意他. 尷尬的洗完後, Ed說要在我們房間開權力遊戲party. 看完之後, 我下樓看見陳小姐和其他人. 我問陳小姐要不要去散個步, 她說好然後我們就往鎮裡走. 我們散步到一間小學後面的小路, 我問她說她記不記得我們小時候有一部鬼片叫學校有鬼. 他說他記得可是他也叫我不要再講了因為陰森森的感覺有點恐怖. 喔~原來他是個膽小鬼啊. 我們散步的時候看到好多隻貓可是他們的尾巴好像都好短喔, 不曉得是天生的還是甚麼. 我們回旅館時, 我們走到久種湖的廣場也在那邊聊了許多事, 而且連一些滿私人的事都聊到了. 可是陳小姐也一直說我不是真正的台灣人而且一直說我老. 我才比你大1歲ㄟ, 小姐! 我們在湖畔的時候還看到超大的蛾, 有點像莫斯拉.
 

回旅館剛好是睡覺時間, 一天就這麼過了.
....明天, 應該不會有那個廣播吧?



續


Last time I met everyone and almost got hit by a car.

Anyways back to the story.

"#^$%&^*&(%^*&("

What? What the hell? Public broadcast system? How come there was a public announcement in the morning? I woke up to the loud PA system at around 3. I tried to go back to sleep but couldn't, so I decided to go take a walk. The moment I walked out of the hotel, I saw the hill that we climbed the night before. It wasn't much of a hill but I decided to go back up again to see if I could see anything this time. I didn't. It was way too foggy to see anything. Later, I walked into the town and noticed the "convenient store" was actually a grocery store. The street was dead and there wasn't much to see so I went back to the hotel. Before I went back to the hotel, I stopped at Lake Kushu. There was a crow there and he really hated me because he clearly was gunning for my head, several time. I didn't want to get a bloody head so I hurried back to the hotel.

邪惡烏鴉/Evil Crow

Breakfast was typical Japanese style. Softboiled egg, fish, miso soup, pickled vegetable, marinated squid, and rice. I honestly hadn't had any real breakfast for a long time since usually I only eat bread in the morning.

After breakfast, we spent about 30minutes getting ready for the dig. When we got there, I saw everyone putting on their sunscreen and I thought, "I'm not going to use. I'm Asian! Who has heard of Asian getting sun burn before?" So, I didn't apply the sunscreen. We spent the first 2 hours or so in cleaning up the site. There were so much stuff on the surface but we managed to clear them all out. We then divided the sites into two and split the group accordingly. We started digging and we found some shells pretty quick right off the bat. I remember it was Seung-wan who found it and she was so excited saying, "OH MY GOD! I FOUND SOMETHING!!!!" Ya....it wasn't much of a find but it was still pretty cool. There were some minor annoyance such as finding roots. Roots were our public enemy at that time because they were hard to cut and sometimes require a saw to saw through the whole thing. I was getting a bit thirsty so I went for my water but only to find that I didn't tighten the lid right so everything leaked out....oh well at least the professors brought some. Just like that, it was 12.The thing about Rebun is that when it gets to 12, the town plays Edelweis on its PA system, so adorable. We ate lunch at a community center not far away from the site. Our food was from a contracted bakery. We had bread and salad. We were supposed to take only 1 bread but I accidentally took 2....it was an "honest" mistake. The community center itself was at a nice location, we could see the shoreline from the windows but if there was one thing I had to complain would be the washroom. The washroom had a really strong smell. We started digging at one and in the afternoon, it just felt like it was getting hotter and hotter. It was definitely above 25 even though, on the project description described the island's summer climate as being chilly. We finished the work at 5 and went back to the hotel.

Lunch/午餐

社區中心的view/View from the community center

Everyone waiting to get water/大家排隊裝水

I immediately went to the grocery store and bought some chocolates. I noticed that there were a lot of cartoon traffic warning signs and I'm pretty sure they didn't have the copyright for those hahaha. When I walked passed the lake, I saw Mt. Rishiri. Wow, being able to see such a mountain on daily basis must be a pretty cool thing living here. I got back to the hotel and sat at the lobby. Chen was there too. Kato sensei came and bought a Sapporo beer from the vending machine and started telling us two about beer in Japan. He said that Kansai prefers Asahi, Kanto likes Kirin, and Hokkaido likes Sapporo. I told him that Sapporo Beer had been broadcasting a lot of ads on tv in Vancouver in the past year and he said it's his favorite beer. Chen and I thought it was kind of strange of him talking to us about beer but nonetheless we began to think he's an interesting person. Come dinner time, we sat at the dining hall again, when the food arrived, I was shocked to see the food. Our dinner was once again FABULOUS! SEAFOOD, SEAFOOD, SEAFOOD!

After dinner, I went to take a shower and just my luck, another person was in there. When I was showering, I noticed whenever water touched my body, it gave me a burning sensation but it wasn't such a big deal. When I finished, Ed told me he was going to have a Game of Thrones party. I watched part of it then went down to the lobby. I saw Chen there and asked her if she wanted to go take a walk. She said sure so we went out for a night stroll. We walked all the way to the little alleys behind the elementary school and we stopped when we were at a crossroad and because she's a scaredy cat so we headed back. We stopped at the lakeside and started chatting sitting down. We talked about everything and even things I thought would be too private for me to talk about. Yes, she knows some secrets about me but I also know some secrets about her lol. We saw a huge green moth and she thought it was disgusting but I insisted of seeing it closer so I somewhat forced her to see it close with me.

When we got back to the hotel, it was close to light-off so we headed back to our rooms and ended our first day.



To be Continued...