Contact Lens コンタクトレンズ
It's been a while since my last entry, so here's an update:
- Currently on Winter Break holidays, which is from the 27th to the 5th of January. So far I've been a sloth and barely done anything productive (coughcoughfindapart-timejob). Yay!!
- For a couple days in November, I went to Korea (skipped school, whoops) and it was awesome!! Lots of awesome memories like pretending to be a Japanese tourist and eating awesome food <3
- Rented my kimono (furisode style) from Sensho Kitamura, so I can't wait for Seijin no Hi 成人の日 (Coming of Age day) so Ivy and I can experience it :)
So today I decided to go and get some contacts for Seijin no Hi so I wouldn't have to wear glasses :D It was a bit of a pain because contact lens stores and eyewear (glasses) stores are strictly divided in Japan. I tried Megane Super who then recommended me to Heart Up in Yodobashi Camera near Kyoto Station. Despite my limited contact lens Japanese lingo, the staff member who helped me was super friendly and after filling in some forms, I was told to come back for an eye check-up.
The optometrist was conveiently located next to Heart Up and everything was done super efficiently (as expected in Japan? :D). With one staff guiding me, I went from station to station and finally settled down to trying to put the darn thing in. I know I'll get used to it, but trying to push the lens into one eye had me with my heart in my throat because I was deathly scared of scratching my eyeball T__T
In any case, it was a very humbling experience because a lot of the terms they used were something I definitely wouldn't learn in a textbook >__< Communication was a bit hard, but I managed to understand most of what they said :) Now to spend the next 6 days getting used to contact lens...
- Currently on Winter Break holidays, which is from the 27th to the 5th of January. So far I've been a sloth and barely done anything productive (coughcoughfindapart-timejob). Yay!!
- For a couple days in November, I went to Korea (skipped school, whoops) and it was awesome!! Lots of awesome memories like pretending to be a Japanese tourist and eating awesome food <3
- Rented my kimono (furisode style) from Sensho Kitamura, so I can't wait for Seijin no Hi 成人の日 (Coming of Age day) so Ivy and I can experience it :)
So today I decided to go and get some contacts for Seijin no Hi so I wouldn't have to wear glasses :D It was a bit of a pain because contact lens stores and eyewear (glasses) stores are strictly divided in Japan. I tried Megane Super who then recommended me to Heart Up in Yodobashi Camera near Kyoto Station. Despite my limited contact lens Japanese lingo, the staff member who helped me was super friendly and after filling in some forms, I was told to come back for an eye check-up.
The optometrist was conveiently located next to Heart Up and everything was done super efficiently (as expected in Japan? :D). With one staff guiding me, I went from station to station and finally settled down to trying to put the darn thing in. I know I'll get used to it, but trying to push the lens into one eye had me with my heart in my throat because I was deathly scared of scratching my eyeball T__T
In any case, it was a very humbling experience because a lot of the terms they used were something I definitely wouldn't learn in a textbook >__< Communication was a bit hard, but I managed to understand most of what they said :) Now to spend the next 6 days getting used to contact lens...