Row row row your boat.......(Tokushima Japan)

Tokushima Castle

2008-04-17T14:02:00.001-04:00

Now Tokushima castle only has a gate, a moat, a museum and the park left there.
The gate was protected very well. It was built with wood. I took the picture at night. The light was on. It looked like a gate of some rich people's house in old times.

Tokushima Castle

I also took picture of the moat. That was the bridge on the moat.
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bans

2008-04-16T13:50:00.002-04:00

One day I saw a lot of ban boards on some open ground. That was the first time I saw so many bans. Normally, you can in some corner of people's house, there is a ban of no urine, or no dog poo, or no parking and so on.
It seemed that that open place collected all the bans in Japan. It was like a ban museum. Or it looked like a graveyard with many kinds of strange tombstones.

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what is your type

2008-04-14T16:58:00.000-04:00

Japan is really a convenient country. You can almost get anything at any time. There are a lot of convenient stores everywhere, which are open for 24 hours.
You can get drink from vending machines the whenever you are thirst.
Also I found interesting thing. You can get condoms from the vending machines. There was an more interesting machine near where I live. The condoms were sorted according your blood type, ie, there are A B O types condoms there. I did not understand how that works.

vending machines selling condoms according to your blood type

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Tokushima University

2008-04-13T12:32:00.000-04:00

I was in the engineering department. You know, in Minamijyousanjima the engineering department and arts department are there.
There was not so much green trees in the engineering campus. The arts department was pretty beautiful. The part in front of the gym is the most beautiful place.
In the gym I played badminton many times. If you stand on the second floor of the gym, you will see a beautiful scene in front of you.
That was my favorite place.

near the gym

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Tail-chopped cat

2008-04-12T12:21:00.001-04:00

I saw a tail-chopped cat near my old apartment. It was taking sun bath near the crossing.
There was a tabaco store near the crossing. Sometime I was wondering how such stores could make money because some of the stores that I saw were in some place where no people would go by.
After I moved out from the old apartment to the city apartment near the ground, I saw a lot of cats around the ground. They have the same feature. All of them got the tails chopped.
A little bit strange!

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Japanese persimmon

2008-04-11T09:20:00.000-04:00

When I was in Beijing, in the campus there were a garden full of persimmon tree. In the autumn, there were a lot of persimmon on the tree. I was born in the south of China. I never saw persimmon in my home town. I did not human can eat persimmon.
At that time, the persimmon just fell onto the ground and nobody went to pick it up.
Before I came to Tokushima, I saw persimmon in Nara and Hiroshima too. I never tried to buy it. I thought maybe Japanese just use that for decoration.
After I came to Tokushima, when I saw that in the store, I bought some back because of my curiosity.
My god, it was so delicious. I hung up some on the window of my old apartment. So everyday I could have one.
Later I introduced that to honey, the American guy. He became to like that very much. Actually persimmon became his favorite fruit.
He said he never saw that in USA. After we came to NY, we went to the Asian store, we saw persimmon. But the name was Japanese persimmon.
I do not know why it was Japanese persimmon.

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Ginkgo biloba tree near my window

2008-04-10T09:16:00.000-04:00

My seat and table was near the window. There was a Ginkgo biloba tree near my window. Because it was towards to the west and between two buildings, the leaves changed color later than other trees. But once it changed, it was really so beautiful that when I got tired, I always looked at that and rest my eyes.
Not only I enjoyed that tree, but also some birds enjoyed that. I found some pigeons resting on the tree many times. Some time I just found them stayed on the tree for the nights.

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Policeman

2008-04-09T09:12:00.000-04:00

When you worried about something, it would come to you in someday. After I rode the bicycle for one month, I met the Tokushima policemen.
It was a middle night, I tried to go back to my old apartment in Minami Jyousannjima. The policemen were standing in the parking place. No way to run away. I did not steal the bicycle. But I knew that was a stolen bicycle. I hoped the bicycle would be OK. The policemen checked all of things, my alien card. They asked me why I came to Tokushima Japan. They even asked me what I was studying.
At that time, I thought, never deal with the policemen in Japan. It was an annoying thing to go through all the thing with them.
And then they forced me to go to the police office to sign to pass the bicycle over to the owner. It sounded like that it was me who had stolen the bicycle.
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Bicycle

2008-04-08T09:11:00.000-04:00

One Japanese friend gave me a bicycle. It was in his parking place for two years. There was no lock. He said it must be stolen from somebody. But in Tokushima, at night, the police are always checking bicycle. If I met them, he told me never to say who gave me that. Because it was stolen two years ago, there was no way to say I stole that.
Both of the wheels were rotten. After I put some air in that, I rode for some times. And then it became flat when I tried to climb Mountain Bizan with friend MN. I got it repaired in the store near the Tokushima central park. The bicycle told me that it was better to change the tires. But in Japan buying a new bicycle is better than changing tires.
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Japanese owner

2008-04-07T09:10:00.000-04:00

People say when you try to get a job, never choose Chinese owner. Because they would not let you earn cents. After I did wedding waitress, I thought every owner in the world probably the same. They wanted to make you as slave, and let you work until you were dead. But they would still say you did not work enough and well.
Before that I did not work for Chinese so much, but Japanese owner could make your work as a bull. They could make you take six bottles of beer in one time. You know human only have two hands.
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Wedding waitress

2008-04-07T09:03:00.000-04:00

Finally I got a part-time job as wedding waitress. Do not think that was an easy job. It looked so beautiful, but it was the bottom job in all industry.
I almost did service for 100 weddings. After that I thought, when I got married, I would like to stay with my husband together and eat the food we liked and enjoy the time in our own way. we need not to care about how other people think about. And we need to bother people, and we need not to make other people as slaves to our wedding.

Wedding waitress

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looking for part-time job

2008-04-06T08:59:00.000-04:00

I almost had no money anymore. That was the same as the first time I came to Japan. The different thing was that this time I had experience. I knew very clearly if I did not get a part-time job as soon as possible, I was going to die. This was the motivation I got from being poor. Really, if you felt you had nothing to eat, you would try hard to look for a job.
First I just bought a magazine and looked at every ad in it. Tokushima is a small city. There were not so much part-time job available.

I kept looking for part-time jobs. Right at that time, it was the time of Awaodori. One night, I went out for interview. The owner said no to me.
I came to the river, I listened to the sound of the drums. I sighed. I felt how I could live through in this small city.
I took picture of the river. The build on the right side was SOGO building. The blue lights made me feel so sad.
I sat on the bank for a long time. The wind was so cool.

The river behind SOGO of Tokushima

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Old Friend in Tokushima

2008-04-05T08:58:00.000-04:00

I had a friend in Tokushima before I went there. She was one of the junior when I was in Hiroshima University.
Before I came to Tokushima, I e-mailed her and asked if she knew any cheap apartment.
We met her in the my old apartment. I knew she was laughing at me and looking down at me. That apartment was so old, you probably could smell moister from the wall. She took pictures of me, she said, she was going to show that to other people.
In the next three years until after I left Tokushima, I did not call her anymore.

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The reason I went back to Japan

2008-04-04T08:55:00.000-04:00

After I stayed in the sub cellar in Beijing for half a year, I came to Tokushima in July 2004. I began my PH.D course in Engineering department of The University of Tokushima. I majored information science and intelligent systems.
Before I started that, I was dreaming about that in the future I wanted to study hard, and get my Ph.d degree in time and become a great researcher.

I just came to Tokushima only with my suitcase. That was my second time that I came to Japan. Last time, the first time when I went back to China, I cried, and thought, I would never came back to this place, this country anymore. I thought I really did not like Japanese.
But I came back, after I traveled in China form east to south, from South to North. I tried to get a job in China. It seemed that nobody was nice to me. I almost died in Kunming, Yunnan Province.
I chose to come back.

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Congratulations on my new blog of Row row row your boat.........(Tokushima Version)

2008-04-03T19:47:00.002-04:00

Congratulations on my new blog of Row row row your boat.........(Tokushima Version)
I made this blog when I was in Japan. But for a long time, I did not post anything here. I left Japan in the end of September 2007.
I was in Japan for some years. I met some great friends there. I had a lot of good memory there. I am going to make this blog as my memoirs of my life in Tokushima Japan,

Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream, Merrily, merrily,...........Life is but a dream.

today

2006-09-07T00:52:00.000-04:00

today I came again, the buliding is jijiing..............

Difficult

2006-08-03T07:49:00.000-04:00

It is difficult to use this blog

Hot, hot, hot

2006-08-03T07:32:00.000-04:00

Hot, hot, hot, I am hot.

open campus

2006-08-03T01:03:00.000-04:00

There is open campus today. Many high school students came.

Row, row,,,,,

2006-08-02T21:12:00.003-04:00

I made this blog to write down what happened to my life when I was staying in Tokushima.
The blog name comes from the song "row your boat"
Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream, Merrily, merrily,...........Life is but a dream.
Many thing happened in Tokushiam, including bad thing that made me hate some people here, good thing, such as I made some good friends here.
There is sad, joy, mad, like in this place.