為你哭為你笑 為你down為你high

[highways]

Let's just get this out of the way now since I'm capable of talking about very little without invoking 飛輪海's adorable ... whateverness. I'll get back on track with serious reflection, you know, someday.

Went for Japanese with friends from Thailand and Korea—depressingly, some of the conversation went, "Oh, wow, Brittany, you like SHINee?" Seriously, if I had never come to this country, in some ways my life would be different, I am just saying. In some significant ways. I can't actually eat sushi and the restaurant served nothing else, so that was sort of a bust, until we found a Baskin-Robbins that for some reason doubled as a Japanese import store...? Whatever, we don't need to make sense of it, what's important is that inside they had a magic product I have missed, a drink I was moaning about this very morning to thor on the phone. They had Mountain fucking Dew. Japanese Mountain Dew, sure, but how different could it really be? I bought three cans at some outrageous price I wasn't even paying attention to.

And it was terrible. Cruel fate, how could you do this to me. It's like giving me a Dominos delivery place around the corner that won't make cheese pizza! —oh, wait, you did that, too.

I'm actually having a lot of trouble eating lately. I figured that getting used to the food might make me a little sick for a while, and I figured that eventually my stomach would adjust, because what choice does it have? I didn't even consider the possibility that, after getting violently ill only ... okay, several times in rapid succession, my stomach would be all, "Yeah, fuck this, I'm out." Everything tastes like gruel and about half of the time I am awake I feel like vomiting is in my immediate future. To be honest I'm only managing to choke down just about the bare minimum required to live and have been doing so for about a week now, but uh, we don't need to spread that around. I'm surrounded by friends constantly but no one person can see what I'm doing all the time so waving off concerned questions isn't impossible, it's just difficult. "Oh, right, I'm not hungry, I got something with K. Oh, hi, K! Oh, it's fine, I'm going to eat with N. later tonight! N! Yeeeeah, I've actually got stuff back in my room, but thanks! Oh, I'm fine, I'm totally fine, 好好, 謝謝." Pretty much I am a liar. Who lies.

It just seems more polite than, "Leave me alone, or I will throw up all over your face."

I GUESS I'M GOING TO AN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LATER? Oh and I'm totally a professional English teacher now, but that pretty much sums that up and I'm now running out of room. Deleting the music video at the beginning would help with this, but no, I can't, never.

Edit: Oh my god internet if Donnie Yen is in a movie you have to tell me immediately what is this. What is this.

Comments

[jae]

Oh no! Why can't you eat the food?

-J

[highways]

There's a lot of things in it that I'm not used to, and upset my stomach a lot, and after spending my first few weeks just eating whatever they put down in front of me because I didn't know how to ask for anything in particular, my body has just decided that all this food is poison.

[livrebleu]

Oh no! Yuck!

[highways]

I'll be fine! I think I'll get over it, because, like, I have to.

[livrebleu]

You will! I'm sure of it. But, still--how unfun!

[jae]

That is...just horrible. I wonder if you're allergic to a particular spice or something? Have you seen a doctor? You can't be the only person dealing with this.

I barely know you, and I am going to WORRY about this now. Can you not even eat the noodles and stuff?

-J

[highways]

WELL this is not that unusual for me, I have like, food issues and have for most of my life, it's just hard to find stuff that I both can and will eat, so obviously it's gonna be harder in a foreign country, especially in a place where there's virtually no American food to be got. But there's chips and bread and soda and fruit juice and basically tons of packaged stuff I can still sort of eat, so I mean, I'll be fine! Probably the scooters here are a greater danger to my health, haha.

[shadowings]

McDonald's? I remember that being pretty close to the American version last I was there. Starbucks is becoming popular too now. I mean, you can't just eat American junk food, obviously, but you know.

What about buying stuff from the market on your own and making it in the kitchen?

[highways]

I've been to Starbucks! I know there's McD's but I haven't figured ut where exactly. There's no kitchen, no place to even really store food in the dorm.

I do have a lead on a Pizza Hut! The language barrier just makes everything slightly harder, even finding pizza places. :/

[shadowings]

no, don't do Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut in China (or are you in Taiwan? I forget) is really different. There's no tomato sauce on the pizzas, just cheese. Also it's way more about the stack-as-much-salad-as-you-can-in-one-trip bowl than the pizza. It gets pretty entertaining though, cause some people really are masters at building towers out of a salad bowl.

[highways]

Oh, haha, really? Thanks for the warning, I'll keep that in mind!

I'm in Taiwan. :)

[thor]

I HAVE AN OFFER FOR YOU... SIIISTER...

[highways]

did you seriously upload like three identical versions of Darth Vader just to fuck with people

[thor]

No, siiiiister.



Well, maaaaaybe.

[thor]

And ahahaha, I bet you can't not bring him up for even half a day. >P

[highways]

shut it

what do you want

[thor]

Even a QUARTER of a day? Ahahaha...

I want stuff!

[ex_resuscitation80]

bloody hell, that sounds grim about your eating. I'd have assumed the same as you, your body will learn to like it.... I'm surprised it hasn't. Out of curiosity, how long have you been there?

[highways]

a month and a half! minus a few days or so.