Wednesday
On
Wednesday, my throat wasn’t any better. The problem was - everything else was
alright. So even though I went to talk to Soeda-san, we agreed that a visit to
a doctor wouldn’t probably help much, since it’s kinda difficult to treat a dry
throat and lost voice if you don’t have any other symptoms. I tried buying a
mask - first of all, it is supposed to prevent dust from coming inside one’s
nose and mouth (and let’s face it, Tokyo’s much dustier than Prague), second it
also means I breathe warmer and more humid air, since the new air gets kinda
mixed with the air I breathed out. I wore the lace pink dress you’ve seen a
zillion times with a shirt over it and my favorite brown belt. It was kinda
chilly, so I put on also knee high socks and to save my shoulders, I took a
backpack instead of a handbag.
At Todai
At Todai's toilets. Sorry, it's the only place near my lab with mirrors.
At noon
when I went for lunch with my labmates, I was able to talk almost normally! I
got a soup (I thought I remembered the name but I guess I didn’t, because
google didn’t give me the right picture) and wakame salad (normal salad with a
bit of seaweed). The cool thing about all the cafeterias here is that they have
free tea!
As for
work, I just designed primers (well OK, a smart PC program did) and that was it
- they were supposed to arrive next morning, so I was done pretty early and had
about two hours to study Japanese. Then we had a botany lecture about new
species in Borneo - it was very interesting. The
professor talked not only about the plants themselves, but also about how they
prepared the excursions and how the publication of results went.
Afterwards,
we had a quick dinner with my roomie and headed once again for Ginza with one more girl - to get some more skin care
stuff, and especially to get some fresh produce at Hanamasa. We also stopped by
at Donkihote store and then barely made it back home in time. I took some
pictures of the buildings and shops in Ginza and I also tried to take pics of
how the Matsumoto Kiyoshi and Donkihote stores look like - sorry it’s blurry,
but I was trying not to look like I was taking pictures (I wasn’t sure if it
was allowed or not).
Hair products
Make up
Donkihote
Hanamasa
We also went to Maruetsu Petit for food - the ice creams were on sale for 200 Yen/cup, which is a great price. My Japanese teacher said that Häagen-Dazs makes the best green tea ice cream, so I wanted to try it. The cake was 1/2 price, so we got it too.
I also got a UV-spray and lash glue
at MK, 3 pairs of lashes (50 Yen each) and a Missha x Hello Kitty discounted
set at Donkihote. I mean, I love Missha and I love Hello Kitty. What can be
better than the combination of these two? I paid only 1600 Yen for the set - it
had 6 masks, a body cream and a BB cream - that’s an amazing price. At
Hanamasa, we got tons of stuff, this is what I bought - Tofu (40 Yen), peppers,
sweets, ginger. My roomie got fresh octopus, which you’ll be able to see in a
bit.
We went to
sleep at like 2 a.m.,
because we ate some fresh octopus as, er, sashimi.
Thursday
On Thursday
(if you’re interested in my medical condition) I got a nasty dry cough. I wore
the mask, but I still felt like the biggest nuisance on earth, making loud
noise and generally being slow at work. We opted for sweet breakfast.
I run the PCR with my new
primers and then put them on ELFO, isolated the DNA from the gel and put it
into freezer, because my sub-supervisor needed to go home early (does that mean
my will to work reached Japanese level?). I missed the afternooon lecture,
because I needed to attend the lab seminar (held in Japanese, so I understood
veeery little). Before that, we cleaned the floors, as apparently here,
researchers (or at least students and tech staff) are required to do the
cleaning by themselves. Basically, even though I’ve done all the techniques
many times, I had to learn working with completely different machines - the
only things I wear more or less familiar with were the centrifuge and PCR
machine. Otherwise, all the equipment and protocols were pretty different from
ours. The only thing I did all by myself was getting the DNA from gel (and even
an ape could do that), so I hope I’ll eventually become more independent and
less in the way of others. In the evening I just went quickly to the 100 Yen
store to get some new masks and I got nail stickers while at it. I passed by
Ribon magazine and got it, since it had stickers (I don’t have tape in my lab
to attach the gel photos in my lab notebook), correction tape (again, something
I needed for lab) and letter set (my friend asked me to get her some from
Japan) - so I basically got 3 things I needed and a magazine to practice
Japanese. Then I went home, because I wasn’t feeling particularly great and I
took some pics of Iidabashi on my way.
I wore a black skirt with
black blouse, black belt and black bag. Black shoes if you wondered.
Dinner
I took a bath in the evening
This mask is not bad - quite moisturizing, but nothing extremely miraculous.
Yours truly
Vita
Vita I L-O-V-E to see so many hello kitty stuff, you must be in hello kitty heaven! Get better soon dear!
ReplyDeleteOh and green tea icecream? that seems amazing too ^^
These photos are very nice and i love your outfits too. It's a very interesting post.
ReplyDeleteUn endroit que je serai heureux de visiter.