New Residents and A New Semester

A new semester isn't actually started yet, but for the new semester, our dormitory has held a interview for new residents.


I was complaining about those horrible people from the committee side, but at the same time I did nothing to them. Just complaining. I just ignore the situation... And I know this is the worst attitude, but what can I do to them? We told what we think to them. What else can we do? *sigh*


However, I changed my attitude towards other residents a little bit and realised the fact that we have such a lot of fun people in the dorm. I didn't do so much for the house recently (my bad). Those committee side people can change the atmosphere of the house (they did, honestly), but nobody can change the people. Then, I should take advantage of the people from the house!! (Mmm, I'm not sure whether I wrote what I meant, but I'm lazy enough not to check this... I'm just tired now :P)


So, I'm now enjoying my life in the house again like two years ago! I also realised the fact that I can stay here only another 5 months... I have to do my best again. I want to find other precious, true friends from the house again!! That's the reason why I came into the house.


Fortunately, I think new comers seem very friendly and active people (I know 3 of them now, out of 7) so the atmosphere could probably be going to change in a good way. Besides, the very strict rules are no more valid! For example, we can use the kitchen and the lobby as much as we want without submitting a paper to the house parents (maybe this hasn't been valid so long... I'm not sure. I've never cared these stupid rules).


The house is gonna be an awesome place again!!!!!

Climbing Up the Mount Fuji

I learnt something from climbing up the Mount Fuji: DO NOT CLIMB UP THE MOUNTAIN WHEN A STORM IS NEARBY!!!!!!

Mount Fuji is Japanese highest mountain, which is 3,776m above the sea level. Actually I did climb up this mountain last summer as well, and felt this mountain is very easy one. This time, however, it was way more difficult than any other mountains I have ever climbed.

Alison and I went climbing up the Mountain on the 11^th and 12^th of August, 2010. We kind of knew a typhoon was at Japan Sea at that time, and we thought it wasn’t such a big problem because Japan Sea is far away from the Mount Fuji. Actually, however, the weather was truly horrible because of the typhoon... We could have died seriously... On the half way to the top, a guy from one of the mountain lodges said to us that “this wind is too strong to continue going up. All the tours have been canceled. This is that serious situation,” but still a lot of people keep going up without listening to him at all. We were, at least, considering his advice and,,, our conclusion was “keep going!” At this time, the wind was already so much strong and sometimes we cannot just stand still. To make the situation worse, rain had started. Sometimes we needed to grab a rock so that we wouldn't be flown off. However, this was nothing compare with the situation on the top.

We got the top at 4 am. As soon as we got there, we felt a little bit of excitement, and it changed to fear in a second. The excitement was from this strong wind, which we had never experienced, but it was too strong to enjoy… So, excitement had changed to fear immediately.

On the top the wind was so strong that I, literally, flown off several meters several times. The temperature was super low (6 degrees Celsius in summer!) and because of the rain we were all wet so that we felt we might be frozen to death (this horrible wind has also worked on it)!!! In order to survive, we took out all the single cloths from our back-pack, and wore all of them (of course they were including even short sleeve T-shorts!!!). Can you imagine this? Taking out cloths from a bag is such a hard work in this strong wind with our not-well-working hands because of the coldness....><

We were suffering for about 1 hour from 4 a.m. on the top until the sun comes up (otherwise it was too dark to go down the mountain), then this little mountain lodge on the top opened the door, so all of us rushed into the lodge and ate something worm to find "We survived!!" This feeling didn't continue so long though.

Suddenly, a young man working at this lodge said to us that "This is just a breeze as a storm on the mountain. The longer you wait here, the stronger and stronger the wind would be! So if you want to go down the mountain today, start moving immediately!!"

So we start going down in this horrible wind and rain... That was literally a NEAR DEATH experience. There was a crowd at the starting point of the way back and we wondered why. We just wanted to go back as soon as possible! So, we tried going through this crowd and found that there was a reason for this: the wind was sooooooo strong that they COULD NOT move forward. The wind was this much strong. If you can’t imagine how much it was, you can think that this wind was like a kind of experimental wind which was made of a special facility like this (YouTube video).

And also at one point, a lot of fist-size rocks flow from a cliff at as almost the same height as our head :P

I think that was the most dangerous situation in this little adventure. To try avoiding these rocks, I was walking with watching the cliff, but Alison to me said that “don’t face the cliff! What if a rock hit into your face? It would be better to get hit with them on the side of your head without realizing it.” Haha, maybe you're right!

We are alright now, so I can laugh about this experience but what if something bad would have happened...><

This story is a very good one to tell for my grandchildren when I get old.

Moved from livedoor Blog to Blogger

As my last blog didn't accept English comments, I just moved into here, Blogger's.


So, all the comments (just three though:P) posted on the previous entries has disappeared now, sorry Diana and Hai Minh ><


I think this blog would accept English (and maybe also other languages?) comments.


I start writing again!! Next one will be about climbing up Mt. Fuji.


The previous bolg: http://blog.livedoor.jp/shige_k1-english.ver/

I'm Embarressed!!

My girlfriend is staying in my room because she has no place to stay anymore; she is leaving Japan this month. She is now in Tokyo to say good-byes to her friends there, so this morning I had to do the laundry for her. Of course it includes her underwear. In the basement where there are the washing machines I was trying to put her cloths on the hangers but it was a little difficult because I never put women’s underwear on the things (and they are made of so little fabric that I don’t know by where they are supposed to be hanged, otherwise they might get stretched and be ruined I assume…)

So I was just trying to do my best in the basement. Then the house cleaning lady and one of the residents (female) come downstairs!! Thank god the cleaning lady didn’t seem to be aware of my doing, however this resident (I cannot remember her name, and I don’t know her so much and vise versa I guess) might see me with loads of women underwear…

What was she thinking when she saw me!? She might have seen the photos on the facebook on which you can see me wearing totally like a woman. I felt like I could read her mind like this;

OMG! He has a lot of underwear for women. What is he doing with them…? Oh, I saw pictures of him wearing like a woman! I thought that was a joke but I guess he is really into it.

I am so embarrassed!!

Weekend

This weekend I fully enjoyed my time with my friends.
On Friday, we had a farewell party at the House and drink and drink and drink… I puked a looooot and felt so bad at the last actually, but still I can say “Worth it!”


On Saturday, I did nothing but wring the blogs and studying Dutch.


On Sunday, I went to Nara prefecture in order to come to a BBQ party which was held by my karate teacher. I used to go to the head quarters of Seido-Karate, but recently I couldn't make enough time to go there so at the party I met a lot of people from the HQ since then! That was awesome! Now I really feel like doing karate more and want to get strong again, or get stronger and win a competition again! After the party I went to do a part time job at Osaka from 7 to 9 p.m.


And after the job I went to Sanjo-Kiyamachi to come to another farewell party for a Korean girl at midnight. Then we had several tequila shots and beers and some fun at Nikki’s Bar!!! At 2 a.m. we start moving to the club “world” and danced until 4:30. Now I want to complain about the clubs “world” and “Sam & Dave” in Kyoto. I just want to say,,, the DJs are really SUCKS. What we want from the clubs is just MUSIC, not the DJs’ VOICE, so do not speak on the microphone and say “Buy tequilas, guys! Otherwise I won’t play next music, blah blah blah…” That's strongly annoying, seriously. These kinds of things always happen in both “Sam & Dave” and “world.” Actually the reason why we went to “world” at that time instead of “Sam & Dave” is because we thought "world" would be different from the other, but they were totally the same.


I went to “Sam & Dave 2” in Shinsaibashi two weeks ago. This one was a great club instead. The point is… DJs don't speak stupid things on the microphone. That's all. We don't want them to speak because we cannot dance with their voice. Why can't they understand such an easy thing??


Oh, and in the club in Shinsaibashi, we met one of our Sempai from karate, he was working there as a security guy! lol