Quiet week here on Yokosuka Naval Base... I used up my fun adventures for the blogs earlier in the week so don't get too excited about this one! I've just been hanging out, reading, watching TV... no gym this week- I've been super tired and have had a lot of headaches... which I think is due to the changes in the barometer again! It is pretty warm during the day but really cools off at night. It has also been very windy at night, where it howls through the house!
I went to the movies last night and saw "The Help" which was wicked good! I really enjoyed the book and the movie was just as good although there were a few parts they changed a little bit. The theater was packed... mostly women and children... no shock there!
Tonight I went to temple and met some more really nice people. We actually had a minyan (10 people) tonight so that was kind of cool. I went to dinner with 5 of the people from temple after services, we went right off base to a Vietnamese/Thai place and it was pretty good. They are all contractors with the Navy and none of them are active duty, but it was nice to get their perspective on getting a job here. One of the guys actually works at the hospital and is going to ask around for me... even though there are still no new jobs posted...
The BIG news on base the past few weeks is identity theft... apparently someone who worked at the Chili's Restaurant on base was stealing credit card numbers and someone was charging up a lot of money in the states. I think there have been something like 70+ cases reported that can be traced to Chili's... The problem was in the month of September... and Damian and I ate there 1 time, but it was at the very end of August so I think we are ok. NCIS is investigating and it is a really big deal all over base now.
The exchange and other stores on base already have aisles and aisles of Christmas stuff out... and in my mind it's still a little too early for all of this... I mean at least wait until you take the Halloween stuff down! On Monday for Halloween, they open the base up for the local Japanese to come on and trick-or-treat. In the Japanese culture it is not polite to go to someone's house, knock on their door, and ask for candy... but here it's a free-for-all, so apparently the base becomes packed with children trick-or-treating! They are having a Halloween carnival for kids this weekend somewhere on base. I, however, will be in Tokyo for Halloween so that will be a fun adventure for the blogs next week.
Japanese word of the day:
Hashi: Chopsticks
*pronunciation: Ha-she (a friendly suggestion was to add the pronunciation to help with the words of the day)
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