Very annoying week: Japan edition

Contrary to Grace's week, my week started off wonderfully. Had a wonderful time at church and got to really hang out with church people for the first time. Monday was a pretty normal day and then on Tuesday, I got my Japanese test back and had gotten a really good grade on it (then I got an email concerning our housing mess-- but by now, it had become part of the every day routine). Then I later went to the sadou club (sadou = 茶道, lit. "way of tea") and had an awesome time there.

It was that evening when the bad week began.

I'm not entirely sure about what I have but I don't think that it's a cold. I had miso soup that evening, along with some sausages. I checked the expiration date on the sausages and it was ok. As for the tofu in my miso soup, I think that it might've been a day over the expiration date but didn't check it carefully. (I had miso soup on Sunday and checked the expiration date then and I remembered thinking, "Whew, made it just in time.") (I just checked the expiration date on the tofu... the container was still in my trash can. It was two days past the expiration date.) Anyway, the miso soup tasted fine, perhaps 'cause I was so hungry, but I noticed on my second to last bite that it tasted kind of sour. I was really weirded out but just finished all of it anyway since I only had a little bit more left. Then, literally about an hour later, my whole body went cold. So I bundled up a bit but no matter what I did, I just felt really cold. (I even put on my cute little toe socks :D)

I went to bed right away and just hoped that I didn't wake up with a fever.

...

I woke up with a fever.

I skipped Japanese to hopefully squeeze in more sleep but it was a largely unsuccessful attempt. Finally, I hauled my butt out of bed and somehow made it to school. I went up to the clinic in the hope of getting a doctor's note to excuse me from class but was told that there was a special health examination going on for the staff and faculty, thus the doctor could not see me. So I asked if the nurse could write me a note and she said that she was not authorized to do it, so no. She just kept on saying, "Gomen, ne... yoku nete, mizu wo yoku nonde ne..." (Sorry... sleep a lot and drink a lot of water, ok?) I walked away from the clinic in tears because I just stinkin' wanted to go home so I wouldn't have to sit through my 4 hour class.

I went down to the UC Tokyo Study Center to enlist their help somehow and one of the staff members went up to the clinic with me and talked the nurse into getting my temperature taken and for a note with the inkan (stamp) of the clinic. The nurse asked if that were ok and I said yes, it was compleeeetely fine. (In my head, I was thinking, "YES, IT'S DAIJOUBU. JUST GIMME A NOTE NOW. D:")

So I got the note but I had to kill an hour to wait for the 4 hour class to begin. So I spent it in the library, where I was cold, yet fever-y, and miserable. After that hour, I went up to class, showed my professors (there are 2 professors for that class) the note, and then made yet another miserable commute back home. As soon as I got back at 4:30 PM, I knocked out but kept on waking up at 30 minute ~ 1 hour intervals, all the way until 5 AM. Then I was able to get in a solid 2.5 hours of sleep. :D

I'm thinking that it's food poisoning again (good job, Moon-- you poisoned yourself). I don't really know what to do about it but to try to sleep more and to stay hydrated. I had a fever of 38.1 degrees Celcius (100.58 degrees Fahrenheit) for 24 hours and have had diarrhea for the past 48 hours (doesn't look like it's going to let up any time soon. This'll probably require medical attention?). And now that I don't have a fever, I just have a really gnarly headache and some weird abdominal pain in my gut (not a stomach ache, though). What's wrong with me? D:

Mkay, enough with my sad, sad posts. I can't believe that I've gotten sick twice already. I've only been in Japan for a month and a half. -_-;

Well, I have to go to school tomorrow, headache or not. I'll try to have a picture post soon! Bye bye.

I feel like trash.

I think that I have food poisoning. Though all the food poisoning cases I've seen have lasted for a week. o_o But when I google'd my symptoms, all the hits that I got back were food poisoning so I'm going to guess that that's what I have.

Btw, the symptoms have been diarrhea and fever. I will not elaborate anymore than that. Hahaha.

I'm not sure where I got the food poisoning from (as I'm assuming that that's what I have). I ate at a sushi-go-round last night in Shibuya (which I will have pictures of) but no one else that I ate with got messed up. Haha. I denno. But that's ok, I think that the brunt of it's over. I got so much sleep today. I had to skip church too, 'cause my fever was running too high and I didn't know when diarrhea would hit me again. The safest place was my room.

I made some rice porridge and am slowly eating it right now. Good thing, my body's not having an adverse reaction to it.

Anyway, enough with my whining. Here are pictures!

Kirin Lemon! My favorite soda in Japan thus far. It's a lemon soda, if you haven't figured that part out already.

For all you curious about how it looks like inside the train. This was pretty late at night so there weren't too many people on the train. I believe that this was the Chuo Line.


I had soondubu! It was tiny, though. My hand's there for a size comparison. Hahaha. Just look at how the spoon juts out of the bowl. It was tiny. But it was filling.

Don't believe that my school's surrounded by a forest? Take a look at this! It looks like you could just pitch a tent right there!

But the trees to make the campus look pretty. :) This is the entrance into the school.

Where people eat lunch. We have a lunch period! It seriously feels like high school. Hahaha.

So, where do you suppose this is?

Sweets Forest! Yep, the trees are indoors.They're obviously fake but they're so pretty. *-* This was in the outskirts of Shibuya, I think? It's such a couples place. x_X But yes, Sweets Forest is a whole bunch of dessert stores. Think of a mini dessert mall. Mmm...

On the other side, they even had a whole autumn theme going on!

There's this cute little well in the... forest.

I got a crepe. It was preeetty good. But very expensive. D: The coolest thing, though, was the utensils! They're made of wood! Hhaaha. Eco-friendly utensils. :D The downside is that you could taste the wood when you ate your food. That was a little weird.

Hahahah this one cracked me up so much. Emo Cafe! I bought something here, just because of the name of the store. Hhahahaa.

Yes, they also sold Emo Blownies. Mmmm. Blownies...

I got this little orange chocolate... blob. It tasted pretty good but I was expecting more. Oh well.

Shibuya! This is what I saw as soon as I got out of the train station. Craziness!

Took a picture with Hachikou. So Hachikou was a real dog. Its owner got him when he was a puppy back in like, the 1920s or something. Hachikou would walk with his owner to the Shibuya station every day and then walk back home afterwards. When it was time for the owner to come back home, Hachikou would go wait at the station for its master. The crazy thing is, after the owner died, Hachikou stilled waited on its master every day at the station for 20-some years. He became a minor national celebrity and they raised this statue to remember his loyalty. He was there for the raising of his own statue. Haha. But yes, that story made me go ;o;!

Yes, I am walking the famous scramble crossing! We wanted to go up on a higher level to get a picture of it but alas, we couldn't find a place to do it. D: Whatevs.

A glimpse of a crazy Shibuya street.

Ah, this is at the sushi-go-round. We have to eat a minimum of 7 plates. The plates are 120 yen each. It's not too bad. This was probably my favorite there, aside from the tuna. Yes, it's just beef & onions. I can't get away from beef. *-*

Gochisosama deshita. Haha. I took pictures of all of my dishes (except one, I got too excited and ate before I remembered to take the picture... -_-;). This is the end result.

Oh, and I threw a melon on there last minute, just to kind of leave a refreshing taste in my mouth.

Yes, the famous Shibuya 109. Eight floors of shops! Crazy shops!

I was diggin' the fur. Apparently, fur's the "in" thing right now.

Some crazy 80's wear store.Yes, the girls you see are workers. A couple of my friends had more guts to ask them for a picture. Hahhaah.

A square watermelon! And yes, it is ~$120!

And a pyramid shaped watermelon. This one costs ~$150, I believe.

Oh, and just to prove that I was there. Yeeeeeah.

Some crazy, big screen. o_o There are three of them overlooking the scramble crossing.

The monstrous screen on the Q-Front building. And yes, that is a Starbucks Coffee that you see at the bottom of the picture. I had a matcha frappaccino there.

Ok! This picture post took me nearly an hour and a half to do. Hahahaha. Time to do more important things. Good bye!