Saturday, March 24, 2007

Japan by the Numbers

Days in Japan: 239
Days left in Japan: 491
Population of Oita City: 450,000
Number of students I teach in an average week: 640
Number of students whose names I know: 30ish
Cost of a 22-pound bag of rice from the rice store we live above: $25.42 USD
Number of times I eat curry in any given week: 4
Number of times I will have eaten curry by the time I leave Japan: 416
Current bench press: 210 pounds
Desired bench press: 600 pounds
Number of illegal anabolic steroids needed to reach desired bench press: 5
Number of bitch tits resulting from aforementioned steroid usage: 2
Price of first chiropractic visit: $8.20 USD
Price per visit thereafter: $2.96 USD
Average number of onsen visits each week: 1
What I would pay to speak perfect Japanese: a lot
Price of Gucci glasses complete with ultra-thin, UV filtering lenses: $246.61 USD
Number of rooms in my apartment: 3.5
Square footage of my apartment: 10
Number of times I use the words "OK" and "very" in the course of a day in America: 5
Number of times I use the words "OK" and "very" in the course of a day in Japan: 500
Why 6 is afraid of 7: Because 7 8 9! (Because, seven ate nine!)

3 comments:

Average number of times I check your blog per day: 2

R to the Mary,
I think you should start a blog. Not only would I reciprocate and be a devoted and lyal fan of your blogging, but it would also surely inspire me to strike the core of "truthiness" and increase the level of audacity with which I write. Please consider firing one up.
Your partner in stoning,
Tomu

While we are talking numbers, did you guys know that if you are "one in a million" then there are 6,525 people just like you in the world?