Happenings

So even though this happened the other week I finally got around to getting my health insurance straightened out.  It's a real inconvenience that important places are only open during normal work hours.  It's like you are not allowed to have a job if you ever want to get something done or you have to take a day off.

My neighbor is usually fairly audible when talking, even at night to at least 1:30AM on a lot of days.  This includes week days.  Two or three nights ago at around 10:15PM or so I hear it getting loud.  This time it may or may not be him and it might be upstairs, but either way I decide to hit the wall a bit.  Most people from around my area know that it means to quiet down, or if you're not being loud, hearing a sound once means that you accidentally hit the wall so I decided to try it here.  A few minutes later I hear my doorbell ring twice in succession and before I could even get up It was rang two or three more times.  Looking out the peep hole I saw people I had never seen before but I open the door.  It turns out to be the guy next door and his girlfriend (I hear a guys voice much more than anything else so I'm guessing).  He just stands there while she talks.  I say that I don't understand them and she says "bang, bang, bang!" with a knocking motion.  I was shocked that they had the guts to come over to my apartment to complain when they are incredibly loud, especially since it was so early and possibly wasn't even me that was making the noise she was complaining about (since she said "bang" multiple times).  She kept talking for a while even though she could tell that I didn't understand it and then said "goodnight" and left.  I could hear the door close and then they yelled at each other.  They are worse than neighbors in college and it's worse because these people are in their 20s and are always loud yet are willing to complain over one small thing.  Very hypocritical.  

Now that I've been here long enough I finally have enough money to have disposable income!  I'm looking to spend some of this extra cash on learning Japanese so I can get to the point of at least having a basic conversation.  I also want to buy a new camera so I can take better quality pictures, and I am looking at bigger apartments since mine is kind of small.

I'm also really looking forward to cooler weather.  I heard that fall really only lasts for a week or two, I don't know how much of an exaggeration it is but it's a little disappointing since I enjoy the crisp weather and sightseeing at this time is the nicest in my opinion due to smaller crowds and the changing leaf colors.

Work and Cosmosquare.

I finished another week and this time it was six days since I had to work Saturday.  Saturdays are actually a little simpler than weekdays because you have less students and because the day is shorter.  It was relaxed and everything got done on time but when I got home I felt dead and it was only the afternoon.  I did not do much of anything yesterday as a result.

Last weekend I decided I wanted to go to the bay but wanted to see it at night so I waited until it got dark.  I took the subway to Cosmosquare and walked along Seaside Park.  I walked down to the Osaka Maritime Museum which looks really cool being a dome that looks in accessible (because the only way to get to it is through an underground tunnel).  I found out when I got back that it has closed on March 13th of this year after only being open for 13 years.  By the time I had gotten down to the museum it had started to drizzle and I figured that it was only rain and since I hadn't seen everything that I wanted that I would keep going.  That was a mistake.  I was already a ways away from the station and there was no good place to walk as the rain picked up and eventually became a downpour.  Another trip cut short by rain.  To top it off, 95% of my pictures turned out horrible since my camera is not meant to take pictures of things that are further than 30 feet away at night so everything was black.  I at least saw a few fireworks and could see the Ferris wheel lit up from so far away.