Oh, Japan. Here you go again...

Thanks everyone who wished me well on the last post. I'm feeling much better (although about 4 kilograms lighter--ugh).

Sure enough, it was food poisoning and the majority of the kids and all of the teachers at my Wednesday day care center came down with it last week too. I'd stayed home half of Monday and all of yesterday (the first time in my life I've ever stayed home from work due to illness), and my boss wasn't certain I meant to come in today. He called the day care center to tell them this right as I was stepping in the door. "Oh, you're not feeling so well?" asked Encho-sensei. "Would that be lots of vomiting and diahorrea with a high fever? " Pin-pon!

I came back from hoikusho this afternoon to find I'd been scheduled for a meeting with the chief of police. (gulp) Turns out he wanted me to give a presentation to foreigners in the city about "how we live in Kurobe." ( Curiouser and curiouser... )

The police chief's proposed talk is certainly a step in the right direction (if probably in direct reaction to the news/prefecture-level policy), and if I seem a little down on the whole thing it's probably due to the FOREIGNER LIMITS.

That will be all.

Wah. Woe is me.

Nothing sucks like a houseful of Korean historical dorama and no means by which to understand any of it.

(demeter918, I can kind of flub my way through the subtitles, except my eyes don't work that fast...)

That will be all.