帰国

...so obviously this isn't a post about my Misogi Shrine trip.  My life has been insanely busy the past few days--today, for example, I finished packing my entire room into two suitcases and two boxes (and spent more than $200 sending them back to the States, EW), cancelled my cell phone contract,* hauled two boxes down the post office to send them off, sent my big suitcase to the airport, and then failed to get to the bank in time to transfer money back to my American account.  In unrelated news, my arms hurt.

最近忙しすぎるから、みそぎ神社についてのレポートをまだ書き終わっていない。明日名古屋から東京に行って、水曜日に帰国する予定だから、今日は荷物を送って、携帯電話の契約をキャンセルした。

ところで、携帯の契約をキャンセルしに行ったとき、他のアメリカ人のお客さんもいたけど、英語で店員に叫んで、すごく失礼だった。店員は本当にかわいそうで、辞書を使って説明しようとしたら、お客さんに叱られた。私は本当に恥ずかしかった。「アメリカ人の皆はそんなに失礼じゃないから、ごめんなさい！」と言いたかった。いつも「デイナちゃんは普通のアメリカ人と似ていない」と言われているけれど、アメリカ人と言ったら、そんな失礼なアメリカ人を考えれば。。。本当に恥ずかしい。

Anyway, I'm definitely going to work on blog posts on the airplane (YAY, MORE AIRPLANE BLOGGING; WE KNOW HOW WELL THAT WENT LAST TIME!) if not before then, so expect actual posts with actual content at some point soon.  And for those of you in California, I'll be back on Wednesday!  (For those of you in the Boston/Providence area, I'll be back August 18.)

飛行機で東京からサンフランシスコまで九時間かかるから、飛行機で書こうと思う。たぶん時差ぼけのせいですごく疲れるが、その後で最後の日本の冒険についてのレポートをブログに載せる。

*It took friggin' forever and was also pretty awkward 'cause when I showed up at the Softbank store there was this American woman there who was LITERALLY SCREAMING in English at the employees.  This woman was just being so horrible and treating the employees like they were idiots (OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE NOT GOING TO UNDERSTAND YOU SPEAKING ENGLISH, ESPECIALLY IF YOU KEEP TALKING TO THEM LIKE THEY'RE BABIES), I just wanted to apologize and say that not all Americans are that rude and aklslkfhdskjfhkjsahfdsakfaljka.  'Scuse me, being ashamed of my nationality.