JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

Weekly Hogen (Okinawan Dialect) :

English – It is noisy.

Japanese – yakamashii(?????)
yagamashii (?????) *
urasai (????)

Hogen – yagamasanu (?????)

(*NOTE: This word seems to be a deviation on base word yakamashii. As with the individual islands of the Ryukyu Island chain, certain areas of Japan tend to have a "slang" and word derivatives that are indicative of each particular area. This is simliar to the "you all" and "y’all" differences heard in America.)

Wednesday April 5, 2006 [S(3/365) LW(4/365) SH(1/365)]

April 2006 Total:
S-sunny (3/365) C-cloudy (2/365)
D-drizzle(1/365)
W-windy (1/365) LW-light winds (4/365)
SH-slightly humid (1/365)

This Year�s (June 3, 2005 – June 2, 2006) Total:
S-sunny (52/365) C-cloudy (120/365) PC-partly cloudy (135/365)
D-drizzle (32/365) R-rainy (13/365) SR-scattered rain showers (22/365)
W-windy (101/365) LW-light winds (155/365) VW-very windy (10/365)
H-humid (68/365) SH-slightly humid (83/365)

Back on 25 December I wrote about the continuing saga of the water pipes. Well as soon as I stepped out of the shower first thing this morning, I was greeted by the sounds of picks followed by jack hammerish sounds. Seems that the waterworks pit is finally going to get some pavement over it. Given that the rainy season is approaching, this is a noisy but good thing.