It's....PAYDAY!

Woohoo! Let the heavens be praised. My school has finally seen fit to provide me with some monetary compensation for my services. About time too! I wasn't seriously short of money like some people were before payday but it's still a nice feeling! So I have officially received the biggest paycheck I have ever been given! Granted, the main reason for this is because you only get paid once a month rather than bi-monthly or every week like I did in Canada. But I still made more in one month than I would in two working for the Bank of Montreal as a temp. And that doesn't even count the fact that I missed the first three working days of the month and I'm only getting a probationary salary right now. I may celebrate buy going out and getting a PSP.

Then again I may not. Hoarding all the money is also an appealing idea. I'd like to save until I get a million yen. It'll probably be the only chance I get to say that I'm a millionaire. Of course that may not be as impressive over here in Japan as it would be back in North America.

Here's another update on grocery item comparisons. I mentioned previously that chicken is super cheap here. Well the other day I found a Dominions flyer that I had brought over with me from Canada. Their price for boneless, skinless chicken was something around $13/kg. Now admitedly we're talking about Dominion so that might be a little expensive. The price of chicken here? $6/kg. I hope all the health scientists are right when they say that chicken is good for you because I'm eating it literally every day. It makes up for the $30 watermelons and $5 apples that I have to buy.

Here's a short addendum to the previous post about Japanese guilt. You may remember that not to long ago there was a large train crash in Osaka that killed about 75 people. Apparently the 23 year old driver had overshot one of the stops and was trying to make up time. Anyways the last survivor they pulled from the wreckage was a 19 year old university student who had been sitting in the front car and was thrown up into the conductors area. He fell unconcious from the shock and woke up a couple of hours later. Using his cell phone he called his father saying, "I'm sorry. I've been in an accident. I'm finished."

After finally being rescued and taken to the hospital, he asked his parents to tell his friends to visit him. Some immediately came to the hospital at his parents request. "I'm sorry for causing trouble," he said to them, smiling self-consciously.

What a strange, strange people.

let me get to sleep