The Earthquke

For those of you who asked, thank you for your concern, but our area was not in anyway touched. The only suffering caused was mental and can be demonstrated by this example conversation.

Setup: Philip has turned on the TV after getting back to the hotel room and is watching the news even though he doesn't understand a word of it

Sarah: what's that? what happened to that building
Philip: I don't know it looks in bad shape though
Sarah: was it a storm it was pretty nasty out today...
Philip: an earthquake maybe?
Sarah: yeah look at the street, oh no, did you feel anything today
Philip: no...?
Sarah: turn it off before I start thinking that we will be in an earthquake every ten seconds

but no blood no foul.

other things worth noting

a list of words I did not know the meaning of

polite
friendly
customer service
fresh seafood
fashonable
short skirt
clean
mass transit (I mean MASSIVE)
low ceiling
discrimination (people with tattoo's are not allowed in most bath houses)
Sarah ( means "plate" in Japanese)

on thursday we will move into our apartment in nishishizu a few mins from the shizu train station, er, if you know where you are going that is....




some phrases that might have been usefull. ( I will work on a translation and edit this post if enough people are really interested. )

is this the subway to...?

it is? I didn't recognize it.

because i can't smell the urine.

is something the matter?

that man is homeless?

but he is better dressed than I am.

no keep your change, thank you.