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Well.... I just got back from a four hour walk across Chikusei......
I know it's mostly my own fault. I decided to see how long it took to get to my schools by train. So I walked to the train station (20 minutes), and went to the station closest to my schools, then walked to both of them. One of them was a 40 minute walk away. Noted that, then a 40 minute walk back to the station. Except.... the "station" by the schools isn't a station so much as a platform in the middle of nowhere. There was no ticket counter, booth, machine, or anything, and not a single soul around that I could ask. And I was terrified that if I hopped on a train without a ticket, they'd arrest me or something. Or, you know, charge me the highest fare they could when I got to my home station, because I had no way to prove I didn't get on hours before.
So I did the stupid, stubborn, hard-headed thing, and just walked the fuck back home. It took three hours.
I should have just gotten on the train. I should have gotten on, then walked right up to the conductor and said that I didn't have a ticket and didn't know where to get one in that station. I know enough Japanese that I probably could have made myself understood.
Fuck me, and my stupid self.
Now my knee is HUGE. My feet are killing me. My legs are like jello. And my mind has jumped off the deep end.
I think I'm going to stick with the original plan and ride my (shiny and new) bicycle to and from work. It's only an hour trip each way, and it's not on my feet. It's pleasant.
I just wish...... See, I'd planned on, after getting back from the trains, using the rest of today to make sure I had the biking route absolutely down, so that there would be no chance of getting lost tomorrow, my first day of work. I'm pretty sure I know where I'm going, but I wanted to be positive. But now, there's no way I can. Even if there were enough light outside (there's a bit, now, but it's fading fast), I don't think my legs would cooperate.
So we're going with only a fuzzy idea tomorrow. Wish me luck.
However, the wind was blowing wonderfully the whole time I was walking. Kept me nice and cool, kept my hair out of my face, whispered sweet nothings in my ear, and blew sakura blossoms all around me, so that I got to have a crazy moment of throwing my hands up and saying "Chire, Senbonzakura!"
And! And! The streets here in the town are lined with sakura, and all the petals are falling, and the wind has blown them into piles, so they look like little banks of soft, pink snow. So pretty~
I kinda like it here.
Minus the shitty train system.
I know it's mostly my own fault. I decided to see how long it took to get to my schools by train. So I walked to the train station (20 minutes), and went to the station closest to my schools, then walked to both of them. One of them was a 40 minute walk away. Noted that, then a 40 minute walk back to the station. Except.... the "station" by the schools isn't a station so much as a platform in the middle of nowhere. There was no ticket counter, booth, machine, or anything, and not a single soul around that I could ask. And I was terrified that if I hopped on a train without a ticket, they'd arrest me or something. Or, you know, charge me the highest fare they could when I got to my home station, because I had no way to prove I didn't get on hours before.
So I did the stupid, stubborn, hard-headed thing, and just walked the fuck back home. It took three hours.
I should have just gotten on the train. I should have gotten on, then walked right up to the conductor and said that I didn't have a ticket and didn't know where to get one in that station. I know enough Japanese that I probably could have made myself understood.
Fuck me, and my stupid self.
Now my knee is HUGE. My feet are killing me. My legs are like jello. And my mind has jumped off the deep end.
I think I'm going to stick with the original plan and ride my (shiny and new) bicycle to and from work. It's only an hour trip each way, and it's not on my feet. It's pleasant.
I just wish...... See, I'd planned on, after getting back from the trains, using the rest of today to make sure I had the biking route absolutely down, so that there would be no chance of getting lost tomorrow, my first day of work. I'm pretty sure I know where I'm going, but I wanted to be positive. But now, there's no way I can. Even if there were enough light outside (there's a bit, now, but it's fading fast), I don't think my legs would cooperate.
So we're going with only a fuzzy idea tomorrow. Wish me luck.
However, the wind was blowing wonderfully the whole time I was walking. Kept me nice and cool, kept my hair out of my face, whispered sweet nothings in my ear, and blew sakura blossoms all around me, so that I got to have a crazy moment of throwing my hands up and saying "Chire, Senbonzakura!"
And! And! The streets here in the town are lined with sakura, and all the petals are falling, and the wind has blown them into piles, so they look like little banks of soft, pink snow. So pretty~
I kinda like it here.
Minus the shitty train system.
