An oral history

Listening to: The soundtrack to Princess Mononoke
Currently drinking: Delicious watermelon juices (slurrrrrp :P)


Hello everyone, I know it's been a while since I've been on, argh forgive me again X/ Sometimes I'm just at a loss of words for what to say.... Anyway, it's the halfway point of my study right now, everything's in full swing, and, to tell you the truth, I haven't really been out much. Thankfully, the raptors didn't come get us, so we can all stop holding our breath on that. Aside from school, I've been having the "wonderful" experience of going to Japanese dentists and hospitals. In fact, I've been to the dentist more now than I have back in the states over the past nine years!

I promise I haven't acquired any sort of OCD for oral hygiene, it's just that recently my wisdom teeth have, quite literally, been giving me a serious headache. Since I have such wonderful health insurance, that covers also covers dental, here, I decided to have them pulled. Little did I know that it would be such a hoop jumping process. I've already had three initial appointments with the local dentist. Each appointment held the hope and promise that he would finally pull my teeth, but no, on the third appointment he finally told me that he couldn't ACTUALLY pull my teeth and that I needed to go to the main hospital in Nagoya, but first I needed a letter of permission to go see the doctor.

After I finally got the letter, I was allowed to go (with one of the JLSI workers) to the hospital. Here's a fun fact: Hospitals in Japan are amazing, they perform pretty much any medical service, all with the beautiful efficiency of Japanese Bureaucracy. My wait going from check in to face time with the doctor was all of five minutes, but navigating the place would have been nigh impossible had I not had a fluent Japanese speaker with me. Once I got x-rays and returned to the oral surgeon's section I finally felt the hope that I would get my teeth pulled, but no, first I have to get surgery for TMJ. Great, gotta love dentistry. So, I basically plan on spending all of June high as a kite.

Other than that, I am going on a school trip to Echizen and Wajima this weekend, which is going to be awesome <3 We are going to be spending two days in a Japanese ryokan by the beach, and we are going to get to experience a lot of traditional cultural things like: having traditional Japanese dinner accompanied by Gojinjou-daiko, fun bath time in the onsen, making traditional paper fans and lamps, and just overall having a good time! I promise to take lots of pictures so you can all be jealous of how much fun I'm having :3

<3 you Lattes!