There are two spots of good news. Number one is that the buses are running again, so we can go downtown, but they're running on the "Holiday Schedule" which means that it's limited, so that sucks. Also, off-campus students aren't allowed on campus, and I have a group presentation what needs working on, so that's inconvenient. But the other good news is that the semester will NOT be extended for longer than it would have been, so I'm still leaving at the same time (provided I'm not detained for exposure to swine flu). So that's good, at least.
This Saturday has the teaching job, so we'll see how well that works out with the quarantine going on. I hope we're not called off because of it.
Also recently I've been wandering the back streets of Beppu. I spent Friday and Saturday eveneings doing it. Friday was after I shipped the boxes home (ended up costing me a good 165 dollars) I wandered across town. Ended up restaurant hopping because of the inclement weather and my not being able to carry an umbrella down as well as the boxes, so that was unfortunate. The rain stopped eventually and I took a long walk behind the Beppu station. I found mostly small drug stores and a couple restaurants, but I also found out where the Beppu Stadium is, as well as the city's theme park, so that was interesting.
Saturday I took a walk more in the heart of Beppu where people live. It was... awkward, to say the least. The people there looked at me like I really did not belong. Their eyes said "We give you people the shopping district and the main road. Leave us here in peace." It was.....rather unpleasant.
I still plan to do more, though. Probably go for another walk tomorrow after doing some self study. We've been assigned doing it on our own from the Japanese teacher (we had an online session today and it didn't work out so well) and I'm confident that I'll learn it better than if I actually went to class. It's a good textbook, but my teacher is awful. Also just going to that class kind of sets me in a foul mood in the first place, so that doesn't help.
So that's what I've been up to, really. Sorry for not updating, I've had blog burnout recently. If it helps I didn't update Walking the Box at all either, but I never really do that in the first place.
Also, had some issue where apparently there is a service offering plane tickets for half the price of my original ticket. Need to contact them yet and see how much it actually would be and if it's worth it to go through the hassle of refunding my old ticket (sans 350 dollars, apparently) and then buying one of these.
We'll see.
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