Pretty much nothing happened. Yaaaaay. Seriously. I did the 4 class periods once again doing "prep".
Lunch time was with class 3-4 again. Nobody said a single word. Granted, for me, I was trying to make sure I could eat to try and keep up with everyone so as not to be the last one eating. But I was otherwise pretty much ignored. Worse, I ran out of my medicine a couple days ago and I was feeling the effects. That might have something to do with it. Either way, 3rd years do tend to be not giving a damn about the whole foreigner thing. I think maybe I'll bring a Japanese textbook with me tomorrow...? I don't know if that would help at all.
After that, I did get my schedule for almost the rest of the month. I'll be at one of the elementary schools for the entire mornings every Tuesday. But I don;t know what I'm doing, what lessons, etc. That would be really nice. It really would, but....ugh. Guess I'll figure it out and see.
I stopped at home to change and grab a few things and I set out for this place called Kono Clinic. I was told about it by a couple other ALT's in the area. They said the doctor and his wife are good with English, and really nice. So I went.
Clinics here are a bit different. You know how Doctors have different offices? Instead of being like "well, the doctor is here at thistimethattime and he's at this other location at blahblah", the clinic is simply open when the doctor is there. The doctor is always there during pre-defined times. For example, 3 days out of the week, 8-11:30AM and 3-6PM. And then similar but adjusted hours for the other 2 days. And that's just the clinic's hours end of story.
Additionally, there aren't really any private rooms. There are some beds I saw but they weren't used for anything. You check in, wait at in the waiting room, and they call you in at basically order of appearance. There are more chairs beyond the door, facing a curtain. There are never more than 2 or 3 of us sitting at the curtain. You get called in one at a time. The doctor's desk, a stool, and a bed are there, with one or two nurses. You sit on the stool, and he asks you stuff, examines you, or has you lay on the bed for blood pressure and the *feels your stomach* "Does that hurt?" thing. Once done, the nurses and receptionists give you the prescription or medicine and your insurance card back and stuff. It was about $13 for me with the national health insurance. Not too bad, I thought.
For my meds, I came back over towards the hospital, where there's a pharmacy outside of it. TUrns out they needed one of my meds from another nearby pharmacy. The guy was like-- sorry, it could take 10 minutes.
Seriously? It takes at least 15 back at home without having to get it from somewhere...plus, I got to sit down and watch TV. It didn't even take 10 minutes. It also turn out that I pay 30% of the price with my insurance. Also, for my anxiety medicine, I can only receive a prescription of 14 days worth- that's Japan's policy. So I have to go to the clinic and pharmacy every 2 weeks now... xD
But well, for the 2 weeks worth of both medicines, I was charged about $16-17. I won't lie. I think that's really really good. I am okay with this.
Salad time.
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