Wednesday 9/4: Shinjuku!
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tammaiyaFirst off, I forgot to say two things in Tuesday's post. One, I discovered in the shower that I seem to have scratched and bruised my butt and I don't know how or when that happened, and it's kind of disconcerting. O.o; Two, my mum said when I was talking to her that I got a letter from the ANU.
Me: ... Is it about my money from the ANU?
Her: No, it's from the Chancellor. *reads it out; essentially it's to the effect that my GPA last year was really good, outstanding student blah blah, and they love me and want to have my babies* <-- may be paraphrasing just a little
Me: Oh, that's nice.
Me: ... It'd be nicer if it'd get me a scholarship, though.
Her: Yeah, that's what your dad said. ^^;
Anyway. Wednesday, Kaori and I were meeting at midday to register me as an alien (... that feels so weird to say), visit the Australian Embassy, hopefully buy a mobile phone and do some shopping in Shinjuku. This required a LOT of train trips, and was fairly jam-packed, so this post might end up even longer than usual. (I didn't get home until 10.30pm, on a related note.)
I actually ran into Kaori ten minutes before we were due to meet with her on the way to my dorms and me on the way to the student exchange division to see if my certificate of eligibility had arrived yet. (It hadn't.) We then had some time to kill because Kaori wants to do the teacher training course this year, and because she's a post grad with credits at two different universities she had to go hand in this form, but the general student administration division was closed for lunch (from 11.30 to 1pm, wtf?), so we went to the student cafeteria-- which was serving lunch for a whole hour, proving to me that it actually DID serve food, I just kept coming too late, but it was too early for lunch so I still haven't actually eaten there-- to work on filling out my visa form. Le sigh. Supposedly the lunch break ended at 12.30, so we tried again-- still closed-- and we were going to leave it, but I forgot some stuff in my room and by that time it was 12.45 anyway and it was much more convenient for Kaori if we could wait 15 minutes than for her to have to come in on Thursday.
After that was done, we walked off to Tobitakyuu, which is the other station in walking distance of the uni. It's much further than Tama station, but it's much bigger, too. On the way I saw my very first teacup poodle, and almost died of the adorability. Oh my god, so tiny, so fluffy, so CUTE! It was black, too. <3 Aaah, I miss Ebony. Not as badly as I thought I would-- perhaps because I'm so busy, or because nothing about these surroundings reminds me of her? Apparently she tried to crawl into my bed the other morning and mum was like, no, she's not here. No, REALLY. Poor puppy.
One of the things I have learned so far is that Japan is INCREDIBLY bike oriented. There are heaps of bikes chained up around my uni, and there's a big bike-renting shop on the way to Tama St. Kaori was wheeling her bike from uni to Tobitakyuu St-- she said when she finishes classes late and it gets dark, she prefers to ride her bike. There's a huge underground storage at the station, like underground carparking except for bikes, and she left her bike there so it'd be there the next time she came into uni.
Once we entered the station, Kaori showed me the train card she had and suggested I get one. They're kind of ridiculously awesome. I mean, we have stuff like them in Australia-- you put money onto the card, every time you swipe it it detracts the ticket price (or parking, or whatever) from the total-- but the machine that you put money onto the cards with also DISPENSES the cards. And you can get it to print your name on it, which I did. It cost 500 yen to get the card, and I put another 1500 yen on it. Plus, I later discovered you don't have to take the card out of your wallet when you press it against the scan machine. (Although make sure you don't have too much metal in the way, one time I tried to scan it from the side where all my coins are and it didn't work.)
While we were at the machines, one of the other girls from ISEP, Jou En, said hi to me. I can't help being really shy around her because her Japanese is really good and it's all she speaks to me. All the foreign students here have to be proficient in English, so I know she speaks it, but I guess she doesn't need to. I don't know what her nationality is-- from something I vaguely recall she might even be Australian? She seems nice, she always says hi to me when we run into each other, but I'm going to have to work on not sounding like an idiot around her.
The first train Kaori and I caught was to Fuchuu proper. I live in Fuchuu-- in Asahi-Cho. But. Oh, it's hard to explain. I mean, Tokyo is this huge metropolis, right? And then there are a bunch of city centres. Like, all the -ku districts (Shinjuku-ku, Shibuya-ku, etc) are like cities, and then all the shi districts like Fuchuu-shi are like towns. The -cho is like your suburb. So when I caught the train to Fuchuu-- heading away from inner Tokyo-- I was going towards the town centre for my district. Which was bigger than I was expecting, actually. Not, like, Shinjuku big, but still. There was a big department store and a part with shrine gates and stuff, but I didn't have a camera then so I don't have any pictures, sorry.
Kaori and I initially went to the wrong government building, but they gave us directions to the correct building which wasn't too far, so. It was all very bureaucratic and I'm getting good at writing my address quickly in kanji-- although, it took a lot less time and money than a similar process would have taken in Canberra. (I still remember the hell of the government shopfront when I was getting my license. *shudder*) It probably only took 20 minutes, during which time Kaori gave me a travel adapter plug she'd found for me, which was really nice of her, and I told her about how you can get manga scans on the web, which really surprised her. So I'm going to have to show her how to search for manga scans. Her English is really fluent so I'm sure she wouldn't have too much difficulty.
The one disconcerting thing about the alien registration process/japanese bureaucracy was the TOTAL RANDOMNESS of the numbers being called in the queue. It felt bizarrely like bingo. Actually, when my number came up I totally DID say "bingo!" (*couldn't resist*), but even Kaori couldn't figure out the logic behind it, so who even knows. O.o;
After I got the certificate to say I had put in my registration, I had everything I needed to get a mobile phone from DoCoMo (\o/) and it was well and truly lunch time. Kaori hadn't been to the Fuchuu area before either and we were heading back towards Shinjuku ANYWAY, so I bought some egg-based cookies from the bakery (omg, I love Japanese bakeries SO MUCH) and we hopped on the train. Then I promptly ate one of the cookies and offered one to Kaori, because I was hypo. (this is to become a running theme of the day.)
When we got to Shinjuku Kaori took me to a Japanese chain restaurant that... I don't remember the name of, drat! And it was really nice! ;___; I'll have to ask her. It was Oo-SOMETHING, I know, but that's... really not very helpful in Japan.
... After some extensive googling, I'm fairly certain it was Ooshima/大志満. *beams* Which is 8F of the Odakyuu building. The elevator was TINY and claimed it could hold 6 people, but frankly, I don't believe that. There were three of us in it and it was already fairly squished. XD (I DID have a backpack on. But it wasn't very full.)
I got a sumibi yakitori... something or other... which was enormous and DELICIOUS, mmm. And cheap. God I love food in Japan. We had to eat pretty quickly because the Australian Embassy closed at 5, and we still had to catch the train out to Mita. Once we'd eaten, returned to the station, caught the train on the Oeda line, escaped from the rabbit's warren of Azabu Jyuuban St (seriously, Kaori looked at the map and went, why did they estimate 8 min walkiung time for this? It's right around the corner! Reason: you have to go up four escalators and down a hill to get out of the damn station) it was 4.45 and we were afraid they wouldn't let us in.
What followed was incredibly pointless. You have to go into a glass box, one person at a time, to state your reason for being there, then go through a metal detector, and then you can go through. The Japanese guard dude asked me why I was there, and I said (IN ENGLISH) that I was having visa problems. He was all, oh sorry the visa office is already closed, try again tomorrow (it's only open 9-12) and I was pretty sure I didn't need the visa office but we weren't really connecting. So Kaori talked to him in Japanese, and it seemed he hadn't pinged to the fact I was Australian (dude, I'm a western chick going to the AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY in JAPAN, where did he THINK I was from?!) and didn't want to discuss getting a visa to enter Australia but rather my visa situation IN JAPAN. So then I was allowed to go through the security checkpoint to find the consulate, where I was told that the Japanese Government wouldn't let them advise about Japanese visas and they couldn't really help, sorry.
*headdesk*
Oish. Oh well, my mum would've nagged me if I hadn't gone, so whatever. And I did find a Plus ATM at the train station, which let me withdraw money from my Australian bank account! I am no longer worried about imminent destitution. (Well, even before then my destitution was hardly IMMINENT, I had money for probably 2 weeks even without taking into account my credit card, but it was a relief anyway. On that note another relief was finding out I can pay my rent directly, so I won't get evicted for not having a Japanese bank account.)
After that amazing waste of time, Kaori and I took the train back to Shinjuku station. I put another 1000 yen on my train card (I actually still had 850 yen on it, but whatever, it's not like I won't use it) and we headed to the DoCoMo shop where we stayed for like an hour. The upshot of all this is that I now have a DoCoMo phone which can email and take high res photos and gets television FREE. The screen flips around to become widescreen. It's kind of the most awesome thing ever. :D *is actually watching Himitsu no Arashi while typing this*
When we eventually emerged from the DoCoMo shop at 6.45, Kaori realised she had forgotten a dentist appointment in 15 minutes and called to cancel. Not much later, her brother (who she said had an appointment after her) called her to ask if she could tell the dentist he couldn't make it. So she rang the dentist back and was like, "I'm so sorry, we're the cancel kyoudai ;____;" which made me giggle.
Walking around Shinjuku we walked past SO MANY karaoke places (and on that note, I might be going on a karaoke party with people from my dorm on the weekend), not to mention gaming arcades. Everything was neon and shiny. Kaori says we'll have to go back to have fun some time when all my administrative stuff is sorted out. We briefly checked out the Zara clothes shop-- I think I'll be able to get clothes here, but not shoes. There was a Gap store around the same area, too. (As well as a huge Kinokuniya. It's going to be fun times when I'm a little more sorted out.)
The next place we went was this total maze of a shop in search of kitchen stuff. It was several levels and the different levels were for different things, but the floors themselves had incredibly narrow aisles-- if you could call them that, they weren't in a grid pattern that I could tell-- and were kind of random and all over the place. Kaori managed to get us to the stairwell, though, and down to the kitchen level, where I picked up a fry pan/wok thing... and timtams. I kind of felt I HAD to buy the timtams, just because they were there and only 300 yen. Like, pride as an Australian, or something. XD I haven't even eaten them that much for years... although I used to eat them all the time as a kid. Mum would put them in my lunchbox in primary school. But yeah, I have timtams I bought in Japan for pretty much the same price that you'd get them in Australia. They're the real deal; they have Arnotts and "made in Australia" on the packet. (And I ate one today. They're timtams, alright.)
I think by then it was past 8, so we decided to get dinner and Kaori took me to this spaghetti shop, here:
That's actually a photo of the plastic food displays in the window. XD But it's before I turned the resolution on my camera up so it's a little small and fuzzy. Anyway. Kaori was like, is it alright if it costs 1000 yen for a meal? and I was like, you know, in Australia $10 to eat out is cheap? We ended up going all out and getting the meal/dessert sets, which in my case was a huge bowl of spaghetti with meat, eggplant and mozarella sauce, a glass of a sort of consumme kind of soup (unfortunately I let mine get cold, but), a glass of royal milk ice tea, a small bowl of salad, and a vanilla mousse with strawberry jam and a sweet biscuit thing. For 1500 yen. O.o;
By the way, before I forget, here are the other photos I took with my phone in Shinjuku last night:
(That's Kaori)
Aaaand me. Those aren't very good photos, I've changed the settings on my phone so the photos after this are much better.
By the time we got back to Shinjuku station it was probably about 9. Kaori lives in the completely opposite direction to the uni, so she asked if I'd be okay catching the train by myself, and I said yes, so long as I got on the right train to begin with I'd be fine. Kaori saw me off on the Chuuou rapid line, and thus I had my first experience of Japanese trains in peak hour, standing around like sardines. It wasn't as bad as I'd thought it could be, honestly, because Japanese people are so POLITE and everyone stands there, perfectly still and moves out of the way to let people get off at their stop. Seriously, if it were Sydney, there would so be more shoving going on.
I was on the Chuuou line for about 25 minutes, then I got off at Musashi no Sakai (the station I couldn't remember the name of the other day) and changed to the Tamagawa line. There's only one stop before Tama and there was a train waiting when I got to the changing station, but the train sat there for about twenty minutes. (I'm not complaining. That's still way more efficient than any public transport I'm used to, and it's nice to be able to wait sitting down inside the warm train rather than standing out in the cold.) When I got off at Tama station, I ran into Kathleen-- the German girl from Tuesday-- and we walked back to our dorm together. I showed her my phone, she was suitably impressed and said she was thinking of getting a similar one, and we bonded over mutual love of Hana yori Dango and decided to go see the movie together. :D
When I got back to my room it was 10.30pm and I had a missed Gtalk call from my mother, who was paranoid that something terrible had happened to me. XD; Ah, I can move to another country across the ocean, but some things don't change.
Me: ... Is it about my money from the ANU?
Her: No, it's from the Chancellor. *reads it out; essentially it's to the effect that my GPA last year was really good, outstanding student blah blah, and they love me and want to have my babies* <-- may be paraphrasing just a little
Me: Oh, that's nice.
Me: ... It'd be nicer if it'd get me a scholarship, though.
Her: Yeah, that's what your dad said. ^^;
Anyway. Wednesday, Kaori and I were meeting at midday to register me as an alien (... that feels so weird to say), visit the Australian Embassy, hopefully buy a mobile phone and do some shopping in Shinjuku. This required a LOT of train trips, and was fairly jam-packed, so this post might end up even longer than usual. (I didn't get home until 10.30pm, on a related note.)
I actually ran into Kaori ten minutes before we were due to meet with her on the way to my dorms and me on the way to the student exchange division to see if my certificate of eligibility had arrived yet. (It hadn't.) We then had some time to kill because Kaori wants to do the teacher training course this year, and because she's a post grad with credits at two different universities she had to go hand in this form, but the general student administration division was closed for lunch (from 11.30 to 1pm, wtf?), so we went to the student cafeteria-- which was serving lunch for a whole hour, proving to me that it actually DID serve food, I just kept coming too late, but it was too early for lunch so I still haven't actually eaten there-- to work on filling out my visa form. Le sigh. Supposedly the lunch break ended at 12.30, so we tried again-- still closed-- and we were going to leave it, but I forgot some stuff in my room and by that time it was 12.45 anyway and it was much more convenient for Kaori if we could wait 15 minutes than for her to have to come in on Thursday.
After that was done, we walked off to Tobitakyuu, which is the other station in walking distance of the uni. It's much further than Tama station, but it's much bigger, too. On the way I saw my very first teacup poodle, and almost died of the adorability. Oh my god, so tiny, so fluffy, so CUTE! It was black, too. <3 Aaah, I miss Ebony. Not as badly as I thought I would-- perhaps because I'm so busy, or because nothing about these surroundings reminds me of her? Apparently she tried to crawl into my bed the other morning and mum was like, no, she's not here. No, REALLY. Poor puppy.
One of the things I have learned so far is that Japan is INCREDIBLY bike oriented. There are heaps of bikes chained up around my uni, and there's a big bike-renting shop on the way to Tama St. Kaori was wheeling her bike from uni to Tobitakyuu St-- she said when she finishes classes late and it gets dark, she prefers to ride her bike. There's a huge underground storage at the station, like underground carparking except for bikes, and she left her bike there so it'd be there the next time she came into uni.
Once we entered the station, Kaori showed me the train card she had and suggested I get one. They're kind of ridiculously awesome. I mean, we have stuff like them in Australia-- you put money onto the card, every time you swipe it it detracts the ticket price (or parking, or whatever) from the total-- but the machine that you put money onto the cards with also DISPENSES the cards. And you can get it to print your name on it, which I did. It cost 500 yen to get the card, and I put another 1500 yen on it. Plus, I later discovered you don't have to take the card out of your wallet when you press it against the scan machine. (Although make sure you don't have too much metal in the way, one time I tried to scan it from the side where all my coins are and it didn't work.)
While we were at the machines, one of the other girls from ISEP, Jou En, said hi to me. I can't help being really shy around her because her Japanese is really good and it's all she speaks to me. All the foreign students here have to be proficient in English, so I know she speaks it, but I guess she doesn't need to. I don't know what her nationality is-- from something I vaguely recall she might even be Australian? She seems nice, she always says hi to me when we run into each other, but I'm going to have to work on not sounding like an idiot around her.
The first train Kaori and I caught was to Fuchuu proper. I live in Fuchuu-- in Asahi-Cho. But. Oh, it's hard to explain. I mean, Tokyo is this huge metropolis, right? And then there are a bunch of city centres. Like, all the -ku districts (Shinjuku-ku, Shibuya-ku, etc) are like cities, and then all the shi districts like Fuchuu-shi are like towns. The -cho is like your suburb. So when I caught the train to Fuchuu-- heading away from inner Tokyo-- I was going towards the town centre for my district. Which was bigger than I was expecting, actually. Not, like, Shinjuku big, but still. There was a big department store and a part with shrine gates and stuff, but I didn't have a camera then so I don't have any pictures, sorry.
Kaori and I initially went to the wrong government building, but they gave us directions to the correct building which wasn't too far, so. It was all very bureaucratic and I'm getting good at writing my address quickly in kanji-- although, it took a lot less time and money than a similar process would have taken in Canberra. (I still remember the hell of the government shopfront when I was getting my license. *shudder*) It probably only took 20 minutes, during which time Kaori gave me a travel adapter plug she'd found for me, which was really nice of her, and I told her about how you can get manga scans on the web, which really surprised her. So I'm going to have to show her how to search for manga scans. Her English is really fluent so I'm sure she wouldn't have too much difficulty.
The one disconcerting thing about the alien registration process/japanese bureaucracy was the TOTAL RANDOMNESS of the numbers being called in the queue. It felt bizarrely like bingo. Actually, when my number came up I totally DID say "bingo!" (*couldn't resist*), but even Kaori couldn't figure out the logic behind it, so who even knows. O.o;
After I got the certificate to say I had put in my registration, I had everything I needed to get a mobile phone from DoCoMo (\o/) and it was well and truly lunch time. Kaori hadn't been to the Fuchuu area before either and we were heading back towards Shinjuku ANYWAY, so I bought some egg-based cookies from the bakery (omg, I love Japanese bakeries SO MUCH) and we hopped on the train. Then I promptly ate one of the cookies and offered one to Kaori, because I was hypo. (this is to become a running theme of the day.)
When we got to Shinjuku Kaori took me to a Japanese chain restaurant that... I don't remember the name of, drat! And it was really nice! ;___; I'll have to ask her. It was Oo-SOMETHING, I know, but that's... really not very helpful in Japan.
... After some extensive googling, I'm fairly certain it was Ooshima/大志満. *beams* Which is 8F of the Odakyuu building. The elevator was TINY and claimed it could hold 6 people, but frankly, I don't believe that. There were three of us in it and it was already fairly squished. XD (I DID have a backpack on. But it wasn't very full.)
I got a sumibi yakitori... something or other... which was enormous and DELICIOUS, mmm. And cheap. God I love food in Japan. We had to eat pretty quickly because the Australian Embassy closed at 5, and we still had to catch the train out to Mita. Once we'd eaten, returned to the station, caught the train on the Oeda line, escaped from the rabbit's warren of Azabu Jyuuban St (seriously, Kaori looked at the map and went, why did they estimate 8 min walkiung time for this? It's right around the corner! Reason: you have to go up four escalators and down a hill to get out of the damn station) it was 4.45 and we were afraid they wouldn't let us in.
What followed was incredibly pointless. You have to go into a glass box, one person at a time, to state your reason for being there, then go through a metal detector, and then you can go through. The Japanese guard dude asked me why I was there, and I said (IN ENGLISH) that I was having visa problems. He was all, oh sorry the visa office is already closed, try again tomorrow (it's only open 9-12) and I was pretty sure I didn't need the visa office but we weren't really connecting. So Kaori talked to him in Japanese, and it seemed he hadn't pinged to the fact I was Australian (dude, I'm a western chick going to the AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY in JAPAN, where did he THINK I was from?!) and didn't want to discuss getting a visa to enter Australia but rather my visa situation IN JAPAN. So then I was allowed to go through the security checkpoint to find the consulate, where I was told that the Japanese Government wouldn't let them advise about Japanese visas and they couldn't really help, sorry.
*headdesk*
Oish. Oh well, my mum would've nagged me if I hadn't gone, so whatever. And I did find a Plus ATM at the train station, which let me withdraw money from my Australian bank account! I am no longer worried about imminent destitution. (Well, even before then my destitution was hardly IMMINENT, I had money for probably 2 weeks even without taking into account my credit card, but it was a relief anyway. On that note another relief was finding out I can pay my rent directly, so I won't get evicted for not having a Japanese bank account.)
After that amazing waste of time, Kaori and I took the train back to Shinjuku station. I put another 1000 yen on my train card (I actually still had 850 yen on it, but whatever, it's not like I won't use it) and we headed to the DoCoMo shop where we stayed for like an hour. The upshot of all this is that I now have a DoCoMo phone which can email and take high res photos and gets television FREE. The screen flips around to become widescreen. It's kind of the most awesome thing ever. :D *is actually watching Himitsu no Arashi while typing this*
When we eventually emerged from the DoCoMo shop at 6.45, Kaori realised she had forgotten a dentist appointment in 15 minutes and called to cancel. Not much later, her brother (who she said had an appointment after her) called her to ask if she could tell the dentist he couldn't make it. So she rang the dentist back and was like, "I'm so sorry, we're the cancel kyoudai ;____;" which made me giggle.
Walking around Shinjuku we walked past SO MANY karaoke places (and on that note, I might be going on a karaoke party with people from my dorm on the weekend), not to mention gaming arcades. Everything was neon and shiny. Kaori says we'll have to go back to have fun some time when all my administrative stuff is sorted out. We briefly checked out the Zara clothes shop-- I think I'll be able to get clothes here, but not shoes. There was a Gap store around the same area, too. (As well as a huge Kinokuniya. It's going to be fun times when I'm a little more sorted out.)
The next place we went was this total maze of a shop in search of kitchen stuff. It was several levels and the different levels were for different things, but the floors themselves had incredibly narrow aisles-- if you could call them that, they weren't in a grid pattern that I could tell-- and were kind of random and all over the place. Kaori managed to get us to the stairwell, though, and down to the kitchen level, where I picked up a fry pan/wok thing... and timtams. I kind of felt I HAD to buy the timtams, just because they were there and only 300 yen. Like, pride as an Australian, or something. XD I haven't even eaten them that much for years... although I used to eat them all the time as a kid. Mum would put them in my lunchbox in primary school. But yeah, I have timtams I bought in Japan for pretty much the same price that you'd get them in Australia. They're the real deal; they have Arnotts and "made in Australia" on the packet. (And I ate one today. They're timtams, alright.)
I think by then it was past 8, so we decided to get dinner and Kaori took me to this spaghetti shop, here:
That's actually a photo of the plastic food displays in the window. XD But it's before I turned the resolution on my camera up so it's a little small and fuzzy. Anyway. Kaori was like, is it alright if it costs 1000 yen for a meal? and I was like, you know, in Australia $10 to eat out is cheap? We ended up going all out and getting the meal/dessert sets, which in my case was a huge bowl of spaghetti with meat, eggplant and mozarella sauce, a glass of a sort of consumme kind of soup (unfortunately I let mine get cold, but), a glass of royal milk ice tea, a small bowl of salad, and a vanilla mousse with strawberry jam and a sweet biscuit thing. For 1500 yen. O.o;
By the way, before I forget, here are the other photos I took with my phone in Shinjuku last night:
(That's Kaori)
Aaaand me. Those aren't very good photos, I've changed the settings on my phone so the photos after this are much better.
By the time we got back to Shinjuku station it was probably about 9. Kaori lives in the completely opposite direction to the uni, so she asked if I'd be okay catching the train by myself, and I said yes, so long as I got on the right train to begin with I'd be fine. Kaori saw me off on the Chuuou rapid line, and thus I had my first experience of Japanese trains in peak hour, standing around like sardines. It wasn't as bad as I'd thought it could be, honestly, because Japanese people are so POLITE and everyone stands there, perfectly still and moves out of the way to let people get off at their stop. Seriously, if it were Sydney, there would so be more shoving going on.
I was on the Chuuou line for about 25 minutes, then I got off at Musashi no Sakai (the station I couldn't remember the name of the other day) and changed to the Tamagawa line. There's only one stop before Tama and there was a train waiting when I got to the changing station, but the train sat there for about twenty minutes. (I'm not complaining. That's still way more efficient than any public transport I'm used to, and it's nice to be able to wait sitting down inside the warm train rather than standing out in the cold.) When I got off at Tama station, I ran into Kathleen-- the German girl from Tuesday-- and we walked back to our dorm together. I showed her my phone, she was suitably impressed and said she was thinking of getting a similar one, and we bonded over mutual love of Hana yori Dango and decided to go see the movie together. :D
When I got back to my room it was 10.30pm and I had a missed Gtalk call from my mother, who was paranoid that something terrible had happened to me. XD; Ah, I can move to another country across the ocean, but some things don't change.
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