Meeting Mori Round 2

Welcome to part two of Meeting Mori! This is about day two, friday, and the hectic beginning of my life here. My BOE was incredibly kind to give me the day off, which worked because there was a lot to do. I woke up around 6 or so to my pred thumping and bumping in the living room. She had been desperately cleaning and packing for the past 24 hours, when not dragging me around to get paperwork. She wasn't near done. She was supposed to leave at 9. It wasn't going to happen-- she was going to be late. After a call to my supervisor, he was to arrive a quarter till 9 to help her ship boxes. This is how good byes work in Japan. You tell everybody a time, they show up to send you off, there are signs, tears, cheering, and presents.

This is the entire town waving off my pred. They held the train for her. I hope that they love me like this too.


Its a very big ordeal. If my pred could have, she would have gone later because she wasn't finished. After was all that was said and done, she had 13 boxes to send to her new home and the house was (sorry pred, you know how it was) a war zone littered with trash, dirt, and junk.
This is what the living room looked like with the boxes, before my co-workers took them away to Kuroneko, the national shipping service.

And this is after my co-workers lugged out the boxes and I had been working in it for a little while.

Honestly, I don't mind cleaning, but it was really overwhelming. When my two co-workers, who had been dealing with the boxes, left me and didn't come back right after lunch like they said, I got really, um, overwhelmed. However I didn't get down for long as I had my very very very first visitor, Chikako, whom I had meet at the welcome/birthday party. She came to welcome me to my house. I was extremely touched. And then the day really got amazing.

Not only did those two co-workers return, but they brought re-enforcements. It was all of the male office workers. It was rather moving for me to see all of these people cleaning in their little button-up white collar shirts. I believe there was 8, but some left to sort trash. And they were cleaning the shit out of my house. It was the beginning of the Hokkaido heat wave so it was getting hot too. The young thing in my office, Kasai-kun, took his shirt off to vaccum the ceiling. After a few hours of intense cleaning, in which I really felt that we bonded, the office lady took me shopping (I got an ethernet cable for my internet) and took me back to my house. She showed me how to make Miso soup and Yakisoba.
Here is the spread of amazing food after a day of hard cleaning.

For lunch I had to try the very famous Ika Meishi. Squid stuffed with rice. It is what Mori is famous for! It was pretty yummy too, but smaller than I thought it would be.


That friday is a day I will most likely never forget. And for now, I have to go!