A Japanese and Chinese Major

Archive for June, 2007

So I’ve been doing my volunteer/observation hour work at the hospital. First day was ok, but the second day sucked and the third day kinda sucks too. I’ve had to explain the reason why I was there to everyone over and over again, and half the time I was saying that I was there to get my bachelors for radiology at OSU and the other half that I was trying to get into OSU’s medical school to become a radiologist. Apparently when you study radiology it’s a lot different than being a rad tech, and by the time I found that out I had told half of everyone that I’m gonna be a doctor and now half think I’m gonna be a doctor and what not, jeesh. Not only that but while I’m there I look like a doctor too, dressed up and without a uniform, so even though I look the part I have no idea what’s goin on and so I feel like a quack. I just hope they don’t get together talking and then ask me again because they both heard something different and then I have to explain that I didn’t know med school and that stuff was different and then I would look really really retarded. Well I haven’t left to go yet today. I’ve been going in at 8 and I’m not gonna go in today probably until 1 o clock, because I don’t think they really care that I do that because they understand that 50 hours is a long time and most people only have to do 4 so… The past couple days it sucks though too because they’ve been throwing me around between different departments like a football. The people at CT dump me at MRI and the people at MRI then dump me back at CT because they say, “well we don’t have any patients would you like to go here?” And I really feel like I don’t have a choice when they say that and I say sure, because if I say no I’ll just be sitting there twiddling my thumbs the whole freaking time. It really sucks too trying to be friendly with the people there and make small talk, and I HATE small talk. Especially with people that I don’t know very well, I only like speaking when I have something to say. Something I’ve been trying to do is match up my lunch with the students that are working there, but I haven’t been able to do it once I keep ending up eating with the older ladies. During the potluck the other day I tried to find out where people were eating and they lead me to like the locker room where all the older people were eating and I was like fuck! dammit! I then came back and grabbed more food and was gonna sit in the corner where everyone was and they were all like, hey would you like to eat in the locker room instead? and no, i didn’t but I said no and they said why not and I said because everyone already left, but what they did was have me it in the hall in the middle room and I was like the only one eating and I already ate a plate so I was getting really full for nothing and it just sucked. After I threw my plate away and was going back to the food room to get a napkin all the students were getting food, figures, man that sucked. Also when I was about to eat in the middle room hallway the one lady let me know that I missed a belt loop in the back and that’s really embarrassing because it had been like that since yesterday. They were really happy though when I brought the pie in in the morning but I think they were more happy of the gesture than the pie because I don’t think anyone ate it and I don’t know where it is. Anyways…yeah. I’m gonna go in and try to see “cardiovascular radiology” so I have to go find the rad supervisor Lisa and probably make her have to hold my hand and introduce them to me. I like MRI, and I like shadowing in the MRI room because I can just hide back there and not worry about anything,

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I’ve been really bored today. Just sat around and occasionally played guitar hero which I just bought the other day and looking at facebook and digg. I started my cereal and workout diet again and working on keeping it until I return back to cbus. Started trading on ameritrade and found out they are stupid by only making 8 or so dollars on a trade when they said I would probably make around 145 if I sold. That’s pretty fuckin stupid I’m still a little upset about that. Nate called me today but he said pretty much the same thing I already heard about from Julie which is they had a party at his place and Sean R made Julie and Ayaka drink just as much as everyone else when they drank and Julie got blitzed but Ayaka didn’t do it. That’s about it.

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There’s a headline on the CNN website about cyber warfare with China and how China has expressed to the US that they’re developing viruses and offenses against the United States online. Increasingly, CNN is doing a good job of reporting America’s problem of China more and more. Basically, what it boils down to is China is not our friend. There is also a news story on Digg at the same time that China declared developing increased offenses against the United States for shaking hands with a Taiwanese official and that they will not spare the US if they invade Taiwan, which I think is one of the first near-future priorities of the Chinese military. It’s scary to think about a war with China, in that it’s very likely it would be a lose-lose situation for America and nothing good could be gained from it. The US is at the top of the world and China wants there instead, and so China has everything to gain and we to lose. I’m also afraid that most Americans wouldn’t take a war with China seriously. After being disillusioned with the reasons we went to war with Iraq, I feel the majority of the people of the United States are very anti-war right now and that is a bad thing against a Chinese army of one billion plus soldiers, we need all the men we can get. If a war with China does occur, which unfortunately probably will in the coming decade or so, there’s going to be a draft. I don’t have a problem with that because I know fighting an army the size of China the United States would need to implement a draft or else we’d be grossly outnumbered, despite already being so.A big problem is the current anti-war state America is currently in what with after the Iraq war. The last thing Americans are thinking of is continuing the war in Iraq let alone getting involved in another war with another country. Not only that but especially after the Iraq war joining the army has been made by the American people as a last resort for people who can’t afford college or are not smart enough for college or doing anything else. While for now this is probably true, this fact will be a big deterrent for men volunteering to join the army to fight China, and so the draft must be implemented.

If we were to go to war with China, I wouldn’t even want to fight. Who would? All I’m thinking about now is getting a nice high paying job, buying a house, starting a family and living the American dream. Who in school right now would want to give up that dream to risk their lives fighting? Close to null. Although I wouldn’t want to go to war especially be forced to go (that’s probably the only way I would go anyways), I can understand why we would need the draft against China, because it would be the only way to make Americans like me fight for my country.

Unfortunately, despite anything, if there is internal struggle within America in regard to the size of protesting in this Iraq and Vietnam war America will surely fail a war with China.

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Mom picked me up late yesterday and by the time we got home it was around 1:15 at night. Woke up this morning and watched some discovery channel and did the usual things online. I eventually called the hospital to get my volunteer hours in for rad. It seemed like a run-around for awhile but I eventually found the right person. I still have to call another person though, the main rad guy or whatever, to ask about observation hours. I guess I can do that tomorrow. Abby drove to work today and I found out she wasn’t that good at driving. She’s still not sure which way to turn the wheel when in reverse to back out, but then again I remember doing the same thing and not being sure which way it went either. I don’t realize it anymore but now I don’t even think about it when I’m in driving. I’m kind of disappointed she hasn’t learned to drive already being that she’s already just graduated high school. I called Adam but I didn’t call John when I should have though, it turns out he was going to have a little party and drink and food at his house but I missed his message because I fell asleep. I guess he didn’t have it though because when I called him back tonight he said he was going to do it tomorrow starting around 5 or 6. I was supposed to pick-up Abby from work at 10:55 but I was falling asleep around 7 and decided to just take a short nap and figured not to set the alarm since I usually didn’t sleep that long anyways. Well when I woke up it was 10:55 and Kenny brought her home already. I hope mom understands and that she’s not too mad, but it makes me look really bad.

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Yesterday I pretty much spent the day sitting around drinking and playing video games. I started out drinking wine and playing Star Wars Revenge of the Sith for xbox but when Sean R came down later we played halo 2 co-op. It sounds like it would be alot of fun but for some reason I just didn’t have fun playing the whole time. I got really really hungry and made eggs with cheese but then I was still really hungry and I made curry rice. Not because I really wanted to but I’m very low on food choices. In-between the games I listened to music streaming from my pc upstairs because we just got the xbox connected to the network the other day. Sean needed the power converter plug and another one of my cables to use to clean out his car in the back of the house so I just layed on the couch and waited for him to get done and I passed out in the middle of the day. I woke up at around 11 or 12 and then stayed up the whole night. I called Julie just to keep in touch because I didn’t talk to her the other day while she is in Boston. Nate called me after I woke up yesterday and told me he was at Akiko’s party for her going away and only Japanese people were there, including Sakiko. Nate said he was pretty pissed about all of them just speaking Japanese even though they were really good at english and he couldn’t understand anything they were talking about. I told him well you better get used to it because they’re going to be doing the same thing in Japan non-stop. He said yeah I know I can get used to it there just now though I got off work and I’m really tired and I thought someone was gonna be here I could take to and they weren’t. So yeah. I’m going home today supposedly I’m not sure when my mom is gonna pick me up but I have to stay home until I get my 40 observed hours in at the hospital which could take a long time and I’m not looking forward to it.

So this school year has come to an end. It seemed alot lot shorter than last year being that I missed the whole first quarter once I got back. The foreign exchange students Miho, Akiko, and Shige and the rest of them have all pretty much left already within these past days, Miho just yesterday and I think Akiko today. But honestly I don’t really care. These exchange students weren’t as cool as last years, and I’m happy that they are leaving because I realized the next batch of exchange students is coming now and may be alot better than the one’s this year. Julie and I talked about their differences alot. This year’s students weren’t as willing to make american friends or hang out with americans as last year’s was, and this was realized when we went to that lame going away Japanese BBQ party and saw their going away album of pictures. All the pictures in the album were them hanging out with other Japanese people. If someone were to just pick up the pictures and look at them, they wouldn’t think those people were in America at all but in Japan. The same is true for Matt and his friends but anyways, looking at the pictures I realized how little I actually knew the exchange kids and I decided not to sign the books. What would I say? “Well, it was nice meeting you five or six times and I hope we will see one another again?” No. Julie signed though, and said she enjoyed talking to them at Kennedy which is basically all we did and it was about Japan anyways and the same old same old crap when you talk to a foreign exchange student from Japan.

Why do we like hanging out with foreign exchange students in the first place? Are they really that great? Julie and I think it might be that our first year here we hung out with them and had a really really fun time, and because we had such a fun time we’re trying to get that same fun back every year by hanging out with them. It’s pretty stupid. And now that I’m out of Japanese, why the hell do I still care about JSO and what not? There’s no real reason for Julie and I to hang out with the Japanese circles. We decided that the only reason we still do is because all the friends we have now are interested in Japanese, because that’s how I met them, and so that still keeps us around it. Realizing we have no reason to participate in JSO anymore and not really wanting to anyways since the Japanese people there are stuck up and clicky, we started talking about getting involved in the Korean students organization, since Julie was Korean anyways. That way people would want to come up and talk to Julie and be friends to Julie rather than coming up to Japanese people at Japanese parties and trying to work to become their friend. Because think about it, why do people come to Japanese parties? To see Japanese people and make Japanese friends, so the Japanese people are the center of attention and everyone wants to talk to them and be their friend. Why do people go to korean parties? To see Korean people and make Korean friends, same thing only this time we’ll be the star instead of the guys walking around hanging out at the bottom of the totem poll and nobody caring to start a conversation with or talk to. yeah. I don’t know why I even fucking care about this absurdity it’s pretty much a popularity contest with asian people and I can’t believe I’m still involved in it because I know it’s stupid and not worth the time of thinking about anyways.

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