Ah, finally connected. I’ve updated the postings, and they are in chronological order below. You might need to scroll down a ways to get up to speed.
I was getting ready to go out for yakitori when the doorbell rang. Usually it’s Melanie but I knew that she was out tonight with some of her teachers. I cautiously opened the door, and it’s a delivery guy with my DSL modem. I had it up and running in 5 minutes, despite the whole thing being in Japanese. Yes!
After hooking up the DSL, I went over to the yakitori place to celebrate, and had another great experience. I didn’t see anybody I knew besides the master, but I got invited to another table to eat with a family that actually lives in my apartment complex. They were very friendly, and they made their poor kid try to speak English with me. Talk about high pressure – poor guy. I mixed in as much Japanese as I could to help him out. I tried a bunch of new dishes, like roasted pimentos, shitake mushrooms, and a new chicken skewer he had.
Tomorrow I am supposed to help clean up around the apartment complex – the entire group of residents are going to help out. It was raining today, and the typhoon that was coming has aparently changed course. If it is raining, we’ll postpone the cleanup until Sunday. Melanie and I were going to try to go out to Kobe to see some waterfalls in the hillside, but if the weather sucks, we are going to skip it.
