Arrival of F.S.
Another day of pretty much nothing. However, as usual, I will find something to monopolize your even if just for a few moments. Yesterday I received my gas bill which was a whopping $41. Is this how much it usually is in the States? I think that my predecessor told me that she only paid a couple hundred dollars for the entire year. I have to check on that again. They said that mine is high because gas is needed in my house to cook and shower. Since I never cook and shower occasionally, I really do not understand why it is so high.
I was excited about the weekend of Cristina and my anniversary (Oct. 10) because we were going to go somewhere since it was a long weekend. However, my town’s fourth sports festival is on that day and they reiterated how they would like for me to go. I am sure that I will have fun, but that pretty much kills my weekend since it is on the Sunday. Therefore, probably no going away for the 3-day weekend.
As for our winter holiday, we are excitedly planning but find it a bit difficult without access to guidebooks. I know that we can search the internet; however, there is so much to search through that the task becomes somewhat of a mission. You are probably thinking that I can just search while I am at work. I don’t know about that. Everyone in my office has a clear view of my computer and I am not sure how great it looks if I am looking up travel pages while they are pretending to be busy. In any case, I think that we will be in Florence for Christmas and in Vienna for New Year’s.
Something I did forget about yesterday was the arrival of our first visitor – Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley comes to us from Pembroke Pines. He was sent by Cristina’s cousin Jennifer. Let me tell you that we are very excited and are already talking about all the cool places that we can take him. We are definitely touring him around Osumi Hanto, then to Kagoshima City. We may even keep him until January to take him to Europe and Hong Kong. I probably shouldn’t be telling you this but I think that he is thinking about setting up a blog. I told him I thought it was a great idea.
Another random note: I hope that since we are cut off from the world of movie entertainment (sorda) that you will inform us of good movies that you happen to see and who stars in them. Reason being that we have to trek a couple hours when we do want to go to the movie theater. Also, the small video store nearby does have several movies but they are all written in Japanese which is difficult to read quickly. So, we usually end up renting one of the featured movies that is flipped so the passerbys can see rather than picking one that only has its spine facing us. Occasionally, there will be spines that have the picture of the star of the movie on it that will entice us to pull the case out and try to read the cover. Yesterday we rented Dogville (which I had never heard of) starring Nicole Kidman. I agree with Cristina that it may be a bit difficult to get into but once you did, it was quite good. The format of the movie is quite original. It is filmed like a play (it may be a play for all I know) with minimal props. It is about a woman that is escaping gun shots and ends up in this small mountain town (Dogville) on the turn of the century. The town of 15 is a bit reluctant to let her stay at first, but after a deal they do. The townspeople grow to accept her and reveal to her their true selves. It is definitely a bit depressing, but I think that the ending is quite uplifting. We also rented Fargo, which I have never seen before.
My computer began to act up so I think I am going to stop now. Office Man just informed me that SE (systems engineer) is going to call him to fix this computer and attempt to install internet in my home. I guess there goes my curry dinner in Kanoya tonight, eh?
I was excited about the weekend of Cristina and my anniversary (Oct. 10) because we were going to go somewhere since it was a long weekend. However, my town’s fourth sports festival is on that day and they reiterated how they would like for me to go. I am sure that I will have fun, but that pretty much kills my weekend since it is on the Sunday. Therefore, probably no going away for the 3-day weekend.
As for our winter holiday, we are excitedly planning but find it a bit difficult without access to guidebooks. I know that we can search the internet; however, there is so much to search through that the task becomes somewhat of a mission. You are probably thinking that I can just search while I am at work. I don’t know about that. Everyone in my office has a clear view of my computer and I am not sure how great it looks if I am looking up travel pages while they are pretending to be busy. In any case, I think that we will be in Florence for Christmas and in Vienna for New Year’s.
Something I did forget about yesterday was the arrival of our first visitor – Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley comes to us from Pembroke Pines. He was sent by Cristina’s cousin Jennifer. Let me tell you that we are very excited and are already talking about all the cool places that we can take him. We are definitely touring him around Osumi Hanto, then to Kagoshima City. We may even keep him until January to take him to Europe and Hong Kong. I probably shouldn’t be telling you this but I think that he is thinking about setting up a blog. I told him I thought it was a great idea.
Another random note: I hope that since we are cut off from the world of movie entertainment (sorda) that you will inform us of good movies that you happen to see and who stars in them. Reason being that we have to trek a couple hours when we do want to go to the movie theater. Also, the small video store nearby does have several movies but they are all written in Japanese which is difficult to read quickly. So, we usually end up renting one of the featured movies that is flipped so the passerbys can see rather than picking one that only has its spine facing us. Occasionally, there will be spines that have the picture of the star of the movie on it that will entice us to pull the case out and try to read the cover. Yesterday we rented Dogville (which I had never heard of) starring Nicole Kidman. I agree with Cristina that it may be a bit difficult to get into but once you did, it was quite good. The format of the movie is quite original. It is filmed like a play (it may be a play for all I know) with minimal props. It is about a woman that is escaping gun shots and ends up in this small mountain town (Dogville) on the turn of the century. The town of 15 is a bit reluctant to let her stay at first, but after a deal they do. The townspeople grow to accept her and reveal to her their true selves. It is definitely a bit depressing, but I think that the ending is quite uplifting. We also rented Fargo, which I have never seen before.
My computer began to act up so I think I am going to stop now. Office Man just informed me that SE (systems engineer) is going to call him to fix this computer and attempt to install internet in my home. I guess there goes my curry dinner in Kanoya tonight, eh?
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