Today one of the most interesting yet.... I'm a bit shaken!
Well, it started out fairly ordinary.... Got up, ate some breakfast (half an apple), then went with my grandma to her English class. That's always interesting. Today we played a treasure game. I finished first, then helped the others... My "treasure" was a pile of newspaper ads.... :p Oh boy! I donated them to the "Sam-chan uses shredded newspaper as kitty litter sometimes" cause. A great cause, I'm sure. So then they talked a bit about left and right, "where are you", and things like that.
After that it was back home. I had to submit my CAS (College of agricultural sciences) scholarship application, which I did. Then I ate lunch.... Then I went to..... Elementary school. I met the 6th grade teacher, who seemed very welcoming and nice. It was clean-up time at the school, and while going to talk to the vice principal, we passed by Nanako (and said hi). Then we met with the vice principal (I think...), I was OKed into the school, and we went upstairs. We went up to the English room. The 6th grade teacher was also the English teacher.... And the 4th graders had English today. So I got to help out with that.... We did the hokey pokey. The hokey pokey is SO much more fun on roller skates. It's just kind of weird otherwise... But I did it anyway. There was a boy in a wheelchair, and I felt really bad for him.
But anyway, 4th graders are crazy.
I agreed to try a day of school on Friday, and see how it goes. We'll see.......
After that, it was back home. I got online... Big surprise there. At 7:00 we had dinner. After that it was online for about a half hour, then some kanji review.
I finished the kanji review at about 8:30. Then it was time for me to take a bath/shower..... But then my plans changed slightly. You may or may not have heard about this in the states... If you haven't, you will now.
I turned to grab my pile of laundry to bring to my room. Suddenly I heard some noises.... Being from Oregon, I thought at first that it was heavy rain. It had been raining all day, so that wouldn't have been too unusual. Then the room shook a little, and I'll be honest, I was listening for thunder.... That is, until my grandma said "Jishin". THEN I knew. It was an earthquake. I had never actually FELT an earthquake first hand, so it was a strange experience. Strangest of all my experiences in Japan so far. I honestly didn't know what to do. So I just sort of stood there.... I was thinking "Well, there's a table here.... I was taught in grade school to go under a table.... But this is almost over... It's not that bad...". It was strange. It was pretty fast, but it seems like there was only one big jolt, and I'm now associating that with right around the time I realized it wasn't thunder.
After that we turned on the TV. I got o my computer to see if any of the "real-time" sites had it yet.... USGS was my main source, but they're obviously in the states, so they didn't have anything on it yet. The news was talking about it, but they don't use the richter scale here (theirs is just full numbers), so I was just more confused.
So finally at around 9:00 I got my bath.... Got out at 9:30 and checked online again. Found out it was a 4.8 at the epicenter... 8:35:54 PM our time. It was centered in Chiba prefecture, where I am... But it was north quite a bit.
Here are the pages I found... I'm trusting USGS more than the other page, thoguh....
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usiqak.php
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=164152006
Only one news site that I could find has picked up on it so far.... Of course, that's sites in English.... It wasn't a huge event... No damage reported yet or anything.... But it was an interesting first for me. I did the "did you feel it?" thing on USGS' site, and they gave me an estimate of about a III.... Good enough for a first. :p I think I can handle one a bit stronger then that, but it's still exciting enough for me. ;)
That is my "exciting story" here.... One I didn't ask for, but I got. :p Tomorrow we're going to Chiba Zoo... Expect a lot of pictures! :)
After that it was back home. I had to submit my CAS (College of agricultural sciences) scholarship application, which I did. Then I ate lunch.... Then I went to..... Elementary school. I met the 6th grade teacher, who seemed very welcoming and nice. It was clean-up time at the school, and while going to talk to the vice principal, we passed by Nanako (and said hi). Then we met with the vice principal (I think...), I was OKed into the school, and we went upstairs. We went up to the English room. The 6th grade teacher was also the English teacher.... And the 4th graders had English today. So I got to help out with that.... We did the hokey pokey. The hokey pokey is SO much more fun on roller skates. It's just kind of weird otherwise... But I did it anyway. There was a boy in a wheelchair, and I felt really bad for him.
But anyway, 4th graders are crazy.
I agreed to try a day of school on Friday, and see how it goes. We'll see.......
After that, it was back home. I got online... Big surprise there. At 7:00 we had dinner. After that it was online for about a half hour, then some kanji review.
I finished the kanji review at about 8:30. Then it was time for me to take a bath/shower..... But then my plans changed slightly. You may or may not have heard about this in the states... If you haven't, you will now.
I turned to grab my pile of laundry to bring to my room. Suddenly I heard some noises.... Being from Oregon, I thought at first that it was heavy rain. It had been raining all day, so that wouldn't have been too unusual. Then the room shook a little, and I'll be honest, I was listening for thunder.... That is, until my grandma said "Jishin". THEN I knew. It was an earthquake. I had never actually FELT an earthquake first hand, so it was a strange experience. Strangest of all my experiences in Japan so far. I honestly didn't know what to do. So I just sort of stood there.... I was thinking "Well, there's a table here.... I was taught in grade school to go under a table.... But this is almost over... It's not that bad...". It was strange. It was pretty fast, but it seems like there was only one big jolt, and I'm now associating that with right around the time I realized it wasn't thunder.
After that we turned on the TV. I got o my computer to see if any of the "real-time" sites had it yet.... USGS was my main source, but they're obviously in the states, so they didn't have anything on it yet. The news was talking about it, but they don't use the richter scale here (theirs is just full numbers), so I was just more confused.
So finally at around 9:00 I got my bath.... Got out at 9:30 and checked online again. Found out it was a 4.8 at the epicenter... 8:35:54 PM our time. It was centered in Chiba prefecture, where I am... But it was north quite a bit.
Here are the pages I found... I'm trusting USGS more than the other page, thoguh....
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/usiqak.php
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=164152006
Only one news site that I could find has picked up on it so far.... Of course, that's sites in English.... It wasn't a huge event... No damage reported yet or anything.... But it was an interesting first for me. I did the "did you feel it?" thing on USGS' site, and they gave me an estimate of about a III.... Good enough for a first. :p I think I can handle one a bit stronger then that, but it's still exciting enough for me. ;)
That is my "exciting story" here.... One I didn't ask for, but I got. :p Tomorrow we're going to Chiba Zoo... Expect a lot of pictures! :)
posted by Emi at 9:50 PM
2 Comments:
How are you EMI?
How was KFC in Japan?
Was it big surprise for you to have an earthquake?
I hope you will enjoy Japanese school(it is good experience ne?).
Oh also you shoule teach them Mafine man song!!!
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