Got an as usual breakfast...plus --FISH EGG. just like those orangie thing above the shushi that we can get in jusco supermarket, but
TRICE bigger!! taste was almost the same, but sweeter.
After that, okaasan decided to let me have a round in the hospital, walking around and seeing stuff. Made lots of friends!! they were devided into 3 types of staff. The girls in
Green uniform are receptionist, taking part in helping and handling phone calls, deskjobs. And those in
Pink uniform, are nurse trainees. Last, those in
White are qualified nurses. There is also 2 nurseman!
really dedecated nurses they are. It is different when they are at work,
sooo serious!!
i am also raelly afraid to kacau them..But they were friendly, just like a BIG family. Some of them stay at the dorm nearby, which belongs to the Tanaka's. Their youngest daughter, Miyo lives there too!.....it is just like an apartment.
There is Yui at the door connecting the house and the hospital..She is sweet!
There, i saw the microscopic thing which goes through a tube down into the patients stomach, colon, to trace and get infected speciment, or growth. It was tough for the patient to roll around and swallow the long tube..later onwards, i also witness a hand operation, the patient has a growth in the joint of his thumb, and Mr. Tanaka, as the attending doctor, just simply slit open after using ball pen to mark the length of slit, and of course applying iodine to prevent infection. my eyes grow really big when i see him stuff a long bandage cloth into the small slit to stop blood flow, and pull it out @_@ !! overall, learn lots today, i m just so glad that i can understand their explanation although with lots of help in chinese wording. Most of the name of sickness are complicated, so Natsuki( the trainee who help me along) jot down kanji in my notebook along the way, and it helps alot!!!
Later, had luch, and met up with Takami san ( she works as a volunteer in the hospital). She is a Newspaper Reporter , and ask lots about Malaysia , Youth Exchange , from me. She did ask permission from me to wirte an article about me....wonder did i came out in the newspaper... After that, Takami san and okaasan brought me to a house just across the hospital. The owner Hideki san was a vegetable, and he recovers slowly, and he can even write now! usually he will sit up and watch TV...He looks great and healthy ! although he is currently under treatment...
Back row: okaasan, Takami san, me //Front row, Mr Hideki and his wife..
After the visit, Uchidasan, 1 of the nurseman, brought me to post office to send New Year greetings to my parents and it cost 90 yen each to Malaysia. Less than RM3.
We went to Tanaka's Old folks home for a visit. Quite same with Yoshino's.. The old folks are really cute. Man grows 1 way physically, from baby to teenage, adult, and older. But the mind set is a CYCLE, for most of us human. The old folks is just like children, and are lovable....
Me and one of the aunty...the aunty behind is carrying a doll, and just cant be separate from it....^_^
When reach home, Tanaka's eldest daughther brought her family around and Hikaru chan, the smallest, shich is around a few months old was super cute and chubby..haha..with saliva all around!
The cute Hika-chan...haha...the two labs behind are as adorable..Love them all!! and are really protective towards little Hika!
At night, i cooked Malaysia's Bak-kut-teh for them. Cant believe i actually can serve it up...haha...not bad.. not bad...without training before i came too! Well, i just bought the spices packet and bought the ingredients written behind the packet there, and just...follow instruction....haha...they said 'ooishii! ooishii!' but dunno real or not..haha..i think is ok lar...Icchan, okaasan's friend, which is a good cook, came to help around! She is cute.. Kana came 2! And we made okonomiyaki together!
delicious okonomiyaki( in round plate) with dango( round thing in sticks). Dango here is alot more delicious than those i got in Malaysia's Bon Odori- half cooked, and rock hard in the middle..this was soft!
my bak-kut-teh( stew with spices, tohu, mushrooms, boiled eggs, vege and others)
i realise that here, they dun have big pots or big kuali, everything is miniature size..i m lucky because i live next to a hospital...and that pot carrying the stew was really old! too bad...that's the biggest. and i m cooking for more than 10 person.
Kana and me:Onigiri making...the shape is out...i m bad...haha...
haha.. i m halfway calling out... from right: sanae, me, nao, Kayo and hika, Hitomi, and Natsuki with Yura( eldest sis' daughther) below.
btw, even when eating, nobody sat cross legged!!!haha...all nice and proper..all eating together...haha...my stew(pot in the middle) went off really fast.. most of the young staff in the hospital came..the elders are quite busy...still working...
Okaasan, Miyo( her second daughter) with Yura , and me with Hika!
After dinner, all of us went to karaoke, i took a drink....but didnt finish it..haha..if not i will be sleepwalking home...
i thought it was all over for today...And heard the girls saying they will need to go to another school later for volley practise! It is like 9 pm to 10...so i went along to watch..but ended up playing badminton with shoukosan( the head nurse), and loose throughout!! wow...they are good in sports!! when they ask me what i m good in,and what i use to represent, i was like...(ya, i can play anything, but talking about representing...that's too far away!! but here, almost everybody is good in one or another sports!ooh..i felt so small o_o) Half of the staffs joined into a team representing Kunitomi Prefecture, anad won 3rd for Girl's Volleyball Chapionship in the national game before this. Even some of the elder nurses are in the game too, and are good in it! They practises almost every night. And the Tanakas own this team. Uchidasan, the nurseman in the hospital, is one of the couch. The other coach (er..i forgot his name) actually coached Malaysia's Volley team in Selangor before coaching their team. He used to stay in Malaysia for yrs, before returning to Japan. really professional!! Their practise was superb! and i never thought they are such professional players!
The team..there is otousan at the left corner, and uchidasan at the right. The girl holding the cert is Kumi, which is the leader. And my friends are all in. hahaha...it was a surprise!
