~LaB_RaT~

It was early early this morning, me being the perpetual insomniac that i am tried to find interesting ways to bore myself to sleep. I ended up playing a Japanese word game in hopes of falling asleep- didn’t work. It did bore me after about an hour or so but i did end up expanding my Japanese vocabulary a bit.

My favorite word for the day: Nurenezumi = "Drowned Rat."

I am not kidding, i found it in the dictionary… the example given in the dictionary: nurenezumi no you ni nattte. (=to become a drowned rat/ to look like a drowned rat.) Yesss… i wonder how many times i’ll use that one. Let me see…

Example: There was a tsunami and now everyone looks like a drowned rat…

Example: Hahaha, you got caught in the rain, you look like a drowned rat.

ok, enough with the drowned rats. I also learned some other interesting words like "swamp" = numa, "Slime" = numeri, "cloth" = nuno, "eavesdropping" = nusumigiki, "snuggly" = nukunuku to…. hmmm… i’m seeing a pattern here….

Think of all the interesting sentences you could come up with, the possibilities are boundless ^-^

Example: The drowned rat was wrapped snuggly in the slimy cloth. (Nurenezumi ha numeri no nuno ni nukunuku to tsutsundeita.)

Nurenezumi has such a nice ring to it. Its even got 5 syllables so it can be used in Haiku (5-7-5).

Numa de shine. Nuno ni tsutsunda  Nurenezumi.

Direct translation: Go die in the Swamp, wrapped in a cloth drowned rat.

Who knows, that could become the new ode to bastard boyfriends/men. I think I’ll include my little master piece the next time i write someone a dear john letter. It has so much angst… you stink so Go die in the swamp… you drowned rat (I haven’t seen a wet rat that looked particularly pretty, have you?)

Who would have thought learning a new language and poetry could be so much fun?

No, I don’t think I’m in love, I know I’m in Love.

Did I mention that I love Japan?

So far, its been just about 2 months and I’m getting the hang of things. Ok, so I’m not on a first name basis with the Starbuck’s Staff yet… then again, i have made friends with the bartenders at the Irish pub. ^-^ That is also a good thing.

I’ve never spent so much time in a pub… i’m not too sure if thats a good thing but the bartenders be cute and ever so polite. hehehe.

Another thing I’ve been doing so often… clubbing. I don’t think I’ve clubbed so much before. Yes, there are places to club in Japan and no, its not as expensive as you might think. My friends brought me to a club with Nomihodai (roughly translates into alcohol buffet)… All you can drink all night for about $30.

But since i sprained my knee last week… i don’t think I’ll be clubbing very much for a while… not unless i went in a wheel chair…. -_-"

I usually love walking to school but because of my knee, the hike up the mountain to school is not a good thing. But its a good thing the trains are ALWAYS on time.

I love how i come all the way to Japan, only to hang out with a bunch of Europeans ^-^, maybe I’ll pick up a European language when i go back to Vancouver… I got English, Japanese, why not Spanish or French or German?

Just to diverge for a moment. Imagine a Japanese guy… now imagine him speaking English- with a Scottish Accent. Yes, they do exist… i met 2 of them. And I’m sorry, i was very amused by the fact they had such strong Scottish accents. I had to bite my tongue a few times to stop myself from asking them to say, "Do you think I’m Sexy."

Yeap, I love Japan… its turning out to be more diverse than I thought it would be.