an update

Hello, once more from the streets of hakuba.


sanosaka to be more specific.

today I have a holiday. Or a ‘yasumi’ as the Japanese like to call it. I started off boarding, but then decided to skip the rest of the day, as the resort was packed, and I wasn’t in the mood. I also got told by both my room mates to clean our room today, which I was going to do anyways, because I knew it was messy. And now, its beautifully clean. After 1.5hours of great cleaning…..
I also did some laundry, 3 loads, darks, whites and towels/scarfs. What I would really like to know is if we are actually allowed to do our washing during the day here, because the chef/person who looks after/is incharge of this building we live in, came and turned off the dryer. There is no space for me to hang all of it in my room! So, I have taken it out, and I will go put it back in later. Grrr.


I also told hiromi I would go to the convenient store. Which I am still planning to do, maybe.i have to wait for my stockings to dry though…. And also, I want to go to jusco! The supermarket. Because I mainly want to buy fruit. So maybe I wont go….ahh, the decisions.

I also must do some Japanese study. As I feel like im not getting any better. Which is totally lame. Since im HERE. In japan.
Natalie got to japan yesterday. And I just spoke to her on the phone while I was eating lunch from work.

the crush I had once in my previous blog is actually going out with this girl who hiromi works with. Its not like official… but I have come to this conclusion. They are always together. But they don’t talk to each other in the dining room. But it also makes it official that he knows I like him. Which is so totally fine. As im finding someone else. Haha.


my room mate has stopped being a complete and utter bitch… which is amazing. And I cant tell whether its fake. Or whether she is genuinely being nice. But ill take it. Its so nice to not have someone constantly scowling at you. We have decided its because of a boy.
my other room mate, who is like my favourite person here is acting strange. We haven’t spoken in ages, and today she didn’t even smile when I smiled at her, let alone talk to me.

I had a yasumi on Wednesday and I went to hakuba with hiromi. To meet her two friends anna and nidhi. We started out boarding in the morning, which was a complete pathetic attempt, had breakfast at work, which was eggs, salad, coffee and buns. Then we got the 10am shuttle bus to hakuba town. We had a latte at the bamboo café next to hakuba station, where we waited for nidhi and anna. And also took advantage of their free internet use. They make a damn good latte there. And the guy who works there is very friendly.
nidhi came, and then anna came a whee while after that. We then went to the city hall type place, as nidhi had to pick up her gaijin card. We then went to the best place in hakuba called gravity works. Where we shared a bottle of wine and some garlic bread. (btw photos of this amazing day can be found on fb). After that we decided to move on, and make a trip to whats like a massive chemist/convenient store. I don’t quite know how to explain it… where I purchased a 400yen bottle of wine. Which is a close equivalent to $6nz. And took it to mcdonalds. As nidhi wanted the toy in the happy meal. We opened the bottle of wine, and it was surprisingly tastey. Slash, really easy to drink… we then got on the bus to happo. Because we wanted to go to ‘the pub’. We were a bit far away from it, so we decided to pretend we were staying at this hotel right next to the pub, so we could get the free van for its guests. Haha. The pub was closed. As it was only 3ish? We rhen got a cab to echoland. The most ‘happening’ place in hakuba one may say. But the cherry pub was closed. Not till 5 they say. We went to the sounds like café and shared a pizza and some cocktails. Then we headed to the karaoke place, for a whee while. And took some really embarrassing videos, which prove just how intoxicated we were. We also got some more wine from the convenient store. Again, close to 400yen. After we had finished karaoke, we went to cherry pub. And got an insane bottle of wine. 4000yen. That’s like 70$!!!! The most expensive wine ive ever payed for!!!! Haha. Then we called troy at tracks bar to come pick us up and take us to tracks, it was 100yen chuhi night. Cheap drinks etcetcetcetc. And a delicious burrito. Rose joined us. We played a wickedly wicked few games of pool. And then hiromi and I decided to go for a walk. We went to this place called pizzakaya, like izakaya. But pizza. As we always see it. We got a pizza. And it was delicious. We headed back to tracks. I try to buy a drink. And realise ive lost 5000yen. Which is like 85$!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn my drinking. Im pretty sure I left it in the pizzakaya. Gahh. After that I played pool with these Australians who are in hakuba for the season. And I always see at tracks. One of them is extremely goodlooking. So this was a highlight of the day. Haha.
the night wrapped up at about 1am. Good times in hakuba.


soon I shall be back with more tales of fun.