My Day-8 in Japan.
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I woke up at 6:30. Even though I had a good sleep, I woke up with dull headache. I also had pain in back of my eyes. My friend thought it might be due to hay fever.
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My headache and pain in my eyes got worse and worse as time went by. I remember everybody whom I met in this trip in Japan was wearing a mask. I regretted for not protecting myself from pollen.
We were planning to leave for mountain area. Before our departure, my friend gave me a quick massage on my shoulders and legs to deal with my headache. She also gave me some homeopathy remedies as well as a cup of Ume-Sho-Bancha; one of Yakuzen.
Around 9:30 am, we departed. My friend’s husband stopped by at a pharmacy for me. I bought some medicine for hay fever and took the pill.
According to them, it took more than one hour to get to our destination. I don’t remember about our driving journey at all, because I was sleeping. I woke up from time to time with my own snorting. I got embarrassed and apologized to them for my snoring.
We had lunch at a nice organic restaurant. They serve organic vegetables and fresh grains. I was too sick to eat anything. My daughter enjoyed their food and finished it all. We were all surprised as we knew my daughter normally does not eat much.
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Then we went to the workshop place. The customers can enjoy a various artworks of their preference. They offer the necessary tools and materials for pottery making, painting a woodwork, and glass etching, etc. Our daughters decided to paint a woodwork.
While they were enjoying painting and designing their artwork, I spent in a bathroom alone for a while. After I vomited several times, I started feeling better. By the time they finished their artwork, I finally regained my normal health condition.
In the evening they took us to a hot spring. It was so relaxing.
The only one wish for me was that we could enter to a hot spring with a swimsuit. I never felt comfortable entering to a bath all naked with strangers, even while I was living in Japan. On the other hand, here in America, since we enter to hot springs with wearing a swimsuit, everybody; men and women, can enjoy entering together. I miss America for the point.
Besides, there were so many rules in a Japanese bath house. After I had lived in America for 11 years, I almost forgot about them. People looked at me in a mean look for my accidentally not following their rules. I was told that the rules were the “common-sense-public-rule-as-a-Japanese”. I felt myself as an alien in my own birth country.
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After the bath, we had dinner at a Japanese soba noodle restaurant. I enjoyed their soba very much. I enjoyed especially the soup with tororo-imo (Japanese mountain yam) as they are not available in America.
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After we came back to my friends’ house, I completed the online checked-in procedure for our return flights to America. We were leaving back home tomorrow. After I finished the online check-in, it was already past 10 pm.
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I wish I never got sick today. On my second thought though, I appreciate that I didn’t get sick for the rest of my days while in Japan. And, I appreciate my friend and her family to take good care of my daughter while I was sick.
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