wtf japan

[fencer_x]

Maybe I'm just a crazy foreigner. Hell, maybe I'm just a crazy American. But where I come from, when it gets hot we generally go like this:

A: Damn it's hot.
B: I'll turn on the air-conditioner.
A: Okay, thanks.
*is cooler*

Don't have AC? The convo then goes like this:

A: Damn it's hot.
B: I have an extra hand fan, want one?
A: Okay, thanks.
*is cooler*

Now, people not from the USA, land of the free and home of the air-conditioning-units-in-every-building, perhaps you can shed some light on this. Is this not the general way things go when you're hot? You...try and cool off? Kind of like when you're cold you try and get warm? Are we just being CRAZY AMERICANS again?

Cause my school has now banned fans in the classrooms. I don't mean electric fans. I don't mean the little battery-powered hand-held fans.

I MEAN FUCKING UCHIWAS. THAT YOU HOLD IN YOUR HAND AND WAVE IN YOUR FACE.

We are not allowed to bring them to class. Why? Because they're a distraction? Because not all the students have them and that'd be unfair (<--btw the crackass excuse for why, even though we HAVE AC in the teachers' office it's never turned on: because it'd be UNFAIR. Fuck unfair, I'm a teacher, they're kids. They can deal)?

Nope.

Because they think we should bear the heat, that it makes you stronger.

What in all the flying FUCK? HOW IN GOD'S NAME DOES THAT MAKE ONE IOTA OF SENSE?

Oh my goooood I can't wait to get out of this hickass backwards town and into Tokyo where I get to sit on my ass online all day, fixing English, in an AC/heated 10th story building with a panoramic view of Tokyo right outside my window, *pnish* and Nagayan minutes away, Tenchou around the corner, my husband within rock-throwing-and-concussing distance.

Wow, Japan. Just when I thought I couldn't, "HOW ON EARTH DID YOU GET TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL NATIONS IN THE WORLD?!" at you any more...

Comments

[reppu.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's Japan. That's what equality looks like babe. XD

Btw, when do you move to Tokyo? You probably won't be there when I get there at the end of the month, but you might be there when I come back up for Comiket.

[fencer-x.livejournal.com]

Equality my ass :P Why not just tell everyone they can use little fans then? That's equality. Everyone gets to be cool on their own power.

I move in the 26th of July and start work the 28th, with weekends off. I imagine I'll be done working by ~5PM every day? When will you be in Tokyo? You can come check out my new digs 8D

[reppu.livejournal.com]

I get there on the 27th, but you know how JET stuff is. I have a feeling I'll be plastered every night and will have to pretend like I don't have a hang-over during orientation. What's that like anyway?

Oh, and thanks for the tips about ATMs in the jetjapan comm. I think $400 will be enough, but I don't know my cap for postal ATMs. What's the most you've ever pulled? I'm pretty sure my Dad got 70,000Y out once...

[fencer-x.livejournal.com]

Well I only really went to orientation in the mornings, the things in the big hall. All the individual stuff I skipped out on and went to do things like meet my destined husband and stuff in Shibuya. So probably not the best one to ask :D

I'd say find out what you HAVE to be there for, and skip the rest XD It's more fun that way--but then, I'd never been to Japan before, so I wanted to skip out and see stuff. You might find the actual seminars better to go to because they'll help more.

I've probably never pulled more than $300 at a time from the post office, I think >_< You'll be there over a couple of days, though--and you won't pay for that apartment immediately. I'd say it'll at LEAST be a week after you arrive.