Stranded in Chitose: Why I hate travelling alone.

Hi and welcome to this edition of rant blog.

That's right. Rant blog. I am ranty. Very fucking ranty and on top of that I'm feeling rather sad/depressed and I want to cry a lot. Why? The answer is simple really, I am stranded in Chitose, Hokkaido, Japan because the snow is rediculous. The Chitose airport never shuts down because of snow, never. Or so I was told. I'm not blaming the people who told me this. Chitose expects stupid, stupid amounts of snow so it was a very reasonable estimation. However today they got stupid, stupid, stupid amounts of snow. The entire Island of Hakkaido is currently being dumped on by two low pressure systems. Where I was, Toroko, is expecting up to 4 meters, yes meters, of snow from yesterday (February 20) until tonight. They have a blizzard warning, a snow warning and a snow damage warning which basically means that you have to shovel your roof off or it might cave in.

Hakkaido is a snow place. This is not completely unheard of. However it is really really fucking up my plans to go home, eat salt and vinegar chips with milk and chocolate, macaroni and cheese and then just because I can have a freaking awesome shower of awesomeness and then fall asleep beside my boyfriend who I haven't seen in two weeks and am really really starting to get a jonesing for in the worst (or best) way. I was going to be home in just over 24hrs. The vast majority of it spent on flights and such not but still I was going to be home. Home.

I cannot express how much I really want to be home right now. This is not to say that I haven't completely and thoroughly enjoyed my stay here in Japan. It has been all sorts of wonderful and spending time with Care has been awesome, but I am ready to be home. I think even more so now because I am stuck surrounded by NOONE that I know or really understand easily and I'm feeling kind of lonely. It's great. Woo...

Remind me never to travel alone again because at least if I get stuck somewhere where nothing makes sense I can at least have someone to talk to and do things with and maybe if I'm lucky just hangout in our room and cuddle with. That would be nice. I could use a hug right about now. My next step is to go find food. This could be something interesting. Not sure how I'm going to go about that yet but I'm think I may just try out the dining room here at the hotel. It could be good. And this hotel does cater to us gaijin. Joy. Maybe I can get some mac and cheese. (Ha!)

Either way... right now, I am going to watch some more grey's anatomy and then after Al calls me back when he get's home I am going to find food. Here's to my new found non-verbal communication skills. (PS the people here are really helpful and nice even if I can't talk to them half the time.)

Also.... I am leaving on the 23rd. Joy.

Semi Update of Doom!

Yay! I still have internets. It's all sorts of awesome. I figured out why I didn't have internets before. It's sad really. Care's computer some how stifled my computer gaining internets. If I hibernate Care's computer then disconnect the internets my computer can pick up the internets. If I don't hibernate it first before I disconnect my computer won't connect to the internets. I don't get it but I suppose that it doesn't matter that much anyways.

So I went to elementary today with Care. It was a blast cute little kids who were all sorts of excited about seeing the foreign girl. It was fun. I had a bunch of pictures taken, sadly none with my camera. I'm going to talk to Care about getting copies of the pictures. It was fun. However, seeing as how I am crazy busy today, writing letters for all the people that matter... (actually just the people that I know the address of.) I am going to have to push off my updating until tomorrow or maybe tonight. I really want to have these letters done today so Care can help me mail them. (I like to think that people would rather get mail from a foreign country then hear about what I have to say. So you have to wait.)

God, when I actually post a real update it's going to be insane! So much has happened, both here and at home. Wooo. Go me. So, until tomorrow....

Junior High is Junior High

Internet's didn't like my computer yesterday. I am kinda tired and want to watch some Grey's Anatomy. I will spend this time now doing that and then tomorrow afternoon I will blog, write letters and generally do all the stuff that I have promised to do. It'll be a fun filled afternoon of typing and writing. Yay.

Also, I got asked twice today if I have a boyfriend. And twice today I got to see grade 8 student's get all excited about the fact that I do have a boyfriend. Seeing how they reacted to the fact that I do not like baseball on the other hand was not as fun. Except that it was funny to see how they reacted to me liking hockey. But then baseball is cool here and hockey is less so. Meh, I'm Canadian. I'm supposed to like hockey...

Japan and still standing....

OK... I'm lame this is just a super quick note to tell everyone that I have landed safely, all is well and I am super busy this weekend. However! I will have an enormous amount of free time on Tuesday (finally) and I will sit down and tell you all about what has happened with me in Kitami City, Toroko, Sapporo, Abashiri, Bihoro, etc... Oh God.

Yah... it's insane! So I'll talk about it and fill you in soon. Right now I am going to talk to Al and then have a nap before I have to go out for supper (late) and meet a bunch of new people. Apparently the biggest thing that I have to worry about for supper is not losing my meat down the grill.

Oh God, Oh God, Oh God...

I leave for Japan in 15 days...

Oh God, Oh God, Oh God.

Also... I'm moving again...