How to Enjoy Crappy Terre Haute!

テレホートをたのしむには・・・

Before I came to America, I was freaked out with the fear of the unknown place. So I was asking many many maaany things to my upperclassman who was in Terre Haute, IN, in 2007-8. She always said that Terre Haute is so boring, there are nothing but just boring, especially during the winter.
アメリカに来る前、知らない場所に行くので不安いっぱいいっぱいだったので、先輩にいっぱいいっぱい質問をしていました。そしたら、、、、テレホートはつまらんよぉ～とくに冬はね。っと。

Yeah....kinda agree with her.
うん。。。。同感です。

It is boring. Nothing is fun, if you do not have a car.
If you have a car, might be okay.
確かにつまらんｗ面白いことがない。車がなければなおさらです。
車があればOKなのかも。

Where I can go on foot by myself?
CVS....many CVSs and Krogger.......some cafes....crappy fast food restrant....
.......................................................might be that it?
それでは。。。徒歩でいけるところといったら？
CVS(24時間のファーマシーチェーン店）。。。。それからぁ、、、、CVS,,,,,CVS,,,,,CVSが腐れるほどあｗあとはクロガーっていうグロサリーストアかな。（リブスン的なｗ）それから・・・・カフェ。。。。とショボイファーストフードのお店くらい？

If there is WAL MART, it might be better....but WAL MART is not so good for the indigenous business! So might be they thank god?
個人的にウォルマがあると面白いような気がするけど、ウォルマは地場産業を破壊するから・・・・という点では地元経営者たちは喜んでいるのかな？

Whatever, there is fewr place where I can go by myself.
なんにしても、徒歩でいけるところといったら、ものすごく限られているのです。

SO! I was just walking.
Walk, walk, walk.
なので！ただ、歩けるところまで歩いてみることに！
歩く、歩く、歩いて、歩いて、また歩く。

One day, I walk up to the north.
One day, I walk down to the south.
One day, I walk toward the east.
One day, I walk to the west.
ある日は北に、
ある日は南に、
ある日は東に向かって、
ある日は西に向かって、


No difference.
なんもかわらん。

Walk and walk.
Ten blocks, twenty blocks, thirty blocks.
歩いて、歩いて。
１０ブロック歩いて、20ブロック歩いて、30ブロック歩いて。


It is boring, so I have plenty of time to waist.
Forty blocks on foot.
することがなくって、暇なので、、、、無駄遣いする時間は腐るほどあるのです！
40ブロックだって歩いちゃいます！

No difference.
なぁ～んもかわらん。

Then what can we enjoy?
何をしたら楽しかろうか？

Make myself super indoor person like nerds do?
オタッキーな人みたいに引きこもりになるのか！

Nop, they are smelly, so won't.
臭い人になりたくないので、却下！

So I walk.
Enjoy waisting plenty of time!
なので、歩くんです☆
時間を思いっきり無駄遣い！




and sometimes find super small happiness on the road.
そして、たまぁーーーーに、小さな幸せを道脇で見つけるのです。

I found Australia continent on a sidewalk of Wabashi Avenue!
I found stinkin' cute heart shaped stone on the parking lot of Kroger!
I found sweet old couple were walking along a stream!
I found doggie was falling over an empty can!
I found a homeless was inocently smiling to people with saying "have a nice day."
I found a person picked up an empty can on a road and threw it into a garbage can!
I met an old man who told me how many country he had traveled!
I met an old woman who was feeding cat.
ワバシ通りの隅っこにオーストラリア大陸を発見！
クロガーの駐車場ですげーかわいいハートの形した石を発見！
小川に沿ってお散歩しているかわいい老夫婦を目撃。
空き缶に躓く犬を発見したし、
ホームレスの人が「よい一日を！」って無垢な笑顔でいっていたよ。
道端の空き缶を公園の空き箱に捨てに行く人を見たよ。
世界中を旅した話を聞かせてくれるおじいちゃんに出会ったし。
猫にご飯を上げてるおばあちゃんにもあったよ。

It's not big.
It's not small.
It's tiny.
It's fine as a sand.
大きくなんてない、
小さくもなくって、
もっともっと小さい、
小さい、砂みたいに小さい、


But they makes me happy.
それでも、それだけでジーンはハッピーになれちゃうんだな。

We cannot go shopping.
We cannot find something we can say "very nice!"
But still...
お買い物はできないし、
「むっちゃいいね！」っていうものは探せないけど、
それでも、

They make me happy.
それでも、小さな幸せがジーンを幸せにしてくれるのです☆

The White Coat Power.

A few minutes ago, I was having dinner with Takako.
I love veges, I had a lot of mini-tomato! So a lot that Takako worries about my health.
I cannot stop eating tomato! I love it soooooo much... so no worries, it might be okay.

We were chatting and eating.

Then an African-American girl came to us.
She looked so excited. I thought she was talking to Takako.

"Were you a model?"

I was looking at Takako.
Then the girl said that again.

I was like What???

"I am a president of *&%$*#(@ show, you should join it next semester!"

hahaha a show. I have never been a model or something.
I once have done a finger model for some reason :)

She said she likes my outfit.

So I just said that "find me on campus, if you need lol"

The White Coat Power again:)
Cute cute white coat:)
I love it.

My Favourite White Coat.

I wore black coat, because it was comfortable and easy to move.
I quite wearing it, because my roomie's grandma said it looks like her uncle's navy coat...
Well....uh, kind of? Maybe....but I thought it is stylish, fashionable coat....

Whatever, so these days I wear a white coat. I bring it from Japan...not really, I asked my mom to send it with some other stuffs, but, yeah, it's from Japan.

I bought the coat when I was a freshman, so...two or three years ago.
I bought it in a part of SunLive! Hahaha not so expensive and...not very good cloth shop for college student lol It's more like for older, ma'am like style....but the corner was for younger people! It's so cute. I love the coat so much! So it's kinda old coat to wear but I am still wearing it.

It's thick coat, so....not so comfortable like the black one...but so cute.

Two years ago, after the Baiko's Xmas service, one of my English teacher said "the coat is cute."
Not me lol The coat was cute. I agree :9 And he said "You should wear it." to his girlfriend lol

I wore the white coat with skinny jeans, brown boots and a pair of black gloves, today.
I looked kind of stylish girl :) Yey.

I was walking around the campus with holding a book. Then I had heard that someone was talking to me. I was like 'what?' But it is not so good to ignore someone, so I just said "hi."
Yet he talked to me a lot. He was an African American guy.

It happened five times? uh....well...maybe it was the sixth time I guess.

Whenever I wear colorful clothes, I think white is kinda colorful, it's so blight, I become a popular girl among African-American people, not only boys, but girls, too lol

It's kinda funny for me, but sometimes they scared me:p

My closet is filled with colorful clothes, some are so blight. And I prefer wearing big ear rings.
I guess, my fashion style is more like African-American people? I know I dont wear like other typical American students.

I will never forget that one of my Japanese friend in here said "Gene looks like African-American woman when I see you in a very dark place." hahaha it was funny. I liked it:)

I will enjoy this winter dressed in colorful clothes in colorless city Terre Haute!
I always love winter because I can wear cute clothes!

Thanksgiving Break.

During the Thanksgiving Break, I went to my roomie, Morgan's house with Takako.
It was so pretty nice house, and nice family:)

We had tons of thanksgiving foods together and play a game.
What was the name of the game....Apple....or something, but it was so much fun!
It is challenging game for internationals, but we enjoyed it a lot.
We need a humor to win the game, sometimes black humor lol

On the last day of the break, we build a huge xmas tree.
It's so tall!

We decorate it with many many balls and other cute stuff.
It looks pretty nice!

The morning, we had snow.
It was so cold, but the outside looked so nice with the tree:)

Thanks Morgan and Mo's family!
I will see you them again in two weeks! Yey.

Not lately but I went to Pacers game!

It not lately, but I went to Indy to watch Pacers' game on 21 November!
It's a team of NBA, so I was so excited, even my roomie says it's a crappy team.
Whatever! I love the atmosphere of the stadium:)

Lots of people were there. And the security check was kidna strict...



It was close game, and Pacers' game.
But! Finally they could not win...augh, it was almost!

But I really enjoyed the atmosphere with friends, so it was okay:D

Ooops, it seems I...gain weight....looks fatter...boo:9

Whoo! Final is coming soon...

Now I am living at the uni's computer lab haha.
It's four in the morning. I finished my biggest paper four hours ago.
Why am I here still? Hahaha coz I am stupid~

No no.

I was doing my extra credit paper for my Multicultural American Literature.
I have done it and sent it to the professor, I might receive extra 20credits! Yey.

And now, I was reading "A Moving Day" by Susan Nunes.

This is really a short short, short story. Only seven pages long. It is related to Japanese immigrants, so it is interesting for me. Fun? well...I would say, not fun. But studying during night time is my favourite!

The library is closed at two in the morning, so I cannot stay there. Yet, the PC lab is twenty-four hours! So I am here!

But one thing I really really hate about this room is....too hot, way too hot.

It might freezing outside, but I do not need a jacket to go back to my dorm room.
Still warm enough with my jersey.

I think....American official buildings are....wasting energy. They need to know the word "ecology." Cannot they just turn off the heater's switch?! Why they need to open the entrance and use a lot of fan to change air? It because it's so hot, huh? It makes no sense!
Dorm room is the same. It's too hot to sleep with blanket.

In Baiko, students study in cold cold room with no heater sometimes. Most of public school in Japan, students freezing during their class times!

Do not waste energy! They are not limitless or something!

I feel I need AC right now...in the computer lab....crap!

Crappy, Crappy My Laptop.

My crappy laptop is sleeping again.

I was working on my 'Focus' analysis paper during the Thanksgiving Break at my roomie's house.

My laptop was super nice, for a couple of weeks....so I had doubted, she would fall in asleep again.

Actually, she is sleeping now. I cannot wake her up. I have tapped her power switch...more than a thousand times, more than an hour....tap tap tap tap tap tap tap, crappy PC is still sleeping, innocently.

When this annoying thing happens, she suddenly power herself down.
And usually, sleep another few days.

Two days have been passed...so maybe tomorrow, she will wake up for me.

I have no idea.....why she needs such a long naps.

I guess, it's time to buy a new one?
I cannot afford it, tho.......

She pretends that she needs more nap.

I tap her a lot and get her awake.

Or I cannot finish my 'Focus' analysis paper!
I have done three pages, I need only two pages!!! Work for me, please!