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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 26, 2009 12:32:21 GMT -5
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[/size][/color] Rachael was in Port Angeles today looking for a new laptop. She didn't leave La Push much, unless it was a quick drive to Forks to visit her friend there. Paul liked to stay in his small town but every now and then, Rachael needed escape. Today she had dressed in jeans and a sweater, pulled back her hair and headed the long drive up to the city in order to shop.
There was only one real computer store, that anyone went to in this area, so she was here but it looked to have more parts, games, and ad ons then any real laptops, or sells people who knew anything.
She was buying a laptop as a gift to her self (Paul and the twins could share her old on if they needed on) since she had finished writing her book. Now she just had to find a laptop she liked.
They had a waiting list for people who needed help, she was behind eight people, and was just walking around looking while she waited. While walking around she felt her self bump into someone from behind. "Oh! I am so sorry!" She said turning around to see who she had lightly bumped. [TAG: Data] [/blockquote] ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by data on May 27, 2009 15:16:01 GMT -5
Taiki tugged his hood up a little more as the light rain fell on him as he walked between the shops. He'd been wandering for a while, trying to find the computer shop to buy additional memory for his laptop and perhaps find a new game to treat himself with. His mother was shopping for food and such so he'd gone on without her and it was a good twenty minutes since he started looking. He smiled as the shop came into view and he picked up his pace. Once inside he undid his now soaked jacket and reveled in the warmth of the heating system.
Wandering around the aisles he found a few add-ons and gadgets for his particular brand of laptop but they were out of additional memory. He frowned and checked the other shelves. Come on! A computer store with a stock including joysticks and USB connector sockets HAD to have additional memory boards! This town sucked! Ok, that wasn't true but Taiki was having a bad week. He wasn't adjusting well and missed his friends. The shops in Tokyo had additional memory. Still, they weren't completely useless he guessed and he began searching for the games section. He'd inconspicuously cosplayed Matt today for the sher hell of it. Striped long sleeved shirt, brown waistcoat with fur lining and jeans cut into striped and sown back together to form horizontal hems around the legs of the jeans. He even had the yellow goggles perched on his head. Ok so inconspicuous was the wrong word but many didn't bother asking about the goggles and other than that it was a perfectly acceptable attire.
He stopped by a shelf that held a small selection of games and felt like crying. They had a selection of about twelve games, four of them about cars and the others were once Taiki already had. Ok so he was spoiled for choice when it came to gaming but seeming as it was his job to test games then it was expected for him to know what he was talking about and for him to enjoy gaming. Besides, they sent him new games before release to try or just as a kind of bonus so his need to buy was limited to the companies he didn't work for. Even then it left a small amount of games to purchase. He took a list of games and software he'd been meaning to buy and referred to them. Taiki was interrupted from his train of thought when he felt someone walk into him. He turned sharply and frowned a little then his features softened and he saw the woman who'd bumped into him. He looked down to see his papers had fallen to the floor.
"Sumimasen...um...excuse me." he cursed himself for not being able to shake his habit of speaking Japanese but heck, he'd been doing so for seventeen years previous to this week so it was understandable. "It's ok. No harm done."
He sank to his knees to pick up the pages and looked back to the woman as he stood, the pages shoved back into his waistcoat pocket. He stopped himself mid-bow and offered his hand instead.
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 27, 2009 16:17:40 GMT -5
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[/size][/color] Rachael had started to bend down to help pick up his papers but didn't want to bump heads with him, so she stopped, and waited for him to stand up. She picked up on his words, in a language she did not know, and smiled at him. Rachael had a Bachelor degree in Foreign Languages and Cultures with a minor in Linguistics, and she loved to learn about new cultures and people. "Forgive me, Taiki, I had was not watching were I was going. I am Rachael." She took his hand and shook it. Rachael was a people person, she liked people allot.
It had not always been so, in high school she had been shy, but college and Paul had opened her up and helped her become a person who loved people, and learning. She had gone from afraid to let people see her, to loving who she was. She still thought she was slightly chubby, but Paul seemed to love her just the way she was.
"Do you mind if I ask what sumimasen means?" She made sure her tone was open and honest, so he wouldn't get offended. She also hope she said the word correct. She was going to assume it meant excuse me, since he had followed with that word in English, but she didn't want to assume anything and be wrong about it. [/blockquote] ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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Post by data on May 28, 2009 3:52:16 GMT -5
Taiki looked to the woman as she introduced herself and smiled, she seemed friendly enough and she wasn't staring which was change. Since moving to America, he'd received all kinds of looks for his difference in race. It sucked! Still, this woman was nice and she didn't seem bothered by the fact he was clearly not American. She was a pretty girl too, not something Taiki would act on but it was worth mentioning. People looked different everywhere you went. It was strange but at the same time interesting to think of, that so many people could be the same in design but still differ so strongly throughout the world.
When Rachel asked what 'Sumimasen' meant, he was fairly surprised by her tone. Most kind of demanded an answer or jeered at his mistake but she seemed genuinely interested. It was encouraging to think that there were some people here in America that wouldn't patronize him for being different.
"It's nice to meet you Rachel. Sumimasen is Japanese for excuse me...I just moved over from Tokyo last week to live with my mother and I'm not quite used to the change in language yet." he laughed softly. "Mind you, you're the first person to ask without a mean edge to your voice so I thank you."
Taiki noticed that she didn't look like the kind of girl who knew her RAM from her URL and so he wondered what she'd be doing in a pc shop. He wasn't being general, far from it, he wondered if he could help. He knew the waiting list could be huge in these places and he would be just as much help, if not more, when it came to information.
"Can I ask what a girl like you is doing in a PC shop? No offense intended but you don't appear to be the kind of girl who enjoys gaming or computer programming. Correct me if I'm wrong." he smiled, "Is there anything you want to know. The waiting lists are huge in shops like this and I can give you information on computers if you need it..." |
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Post by ♧Rachael Black♧ on May 28, 2009 19:47:31 GMT -5
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[/size][/color] Rachael smiled when he said he was from Tokyo. She could only imagine who different the cultures had to be between a large city in Japan and a small town in America. She had gone to college in a larger city (yet no were near the size of Tokyo) and had felt the difference. It had to be very hard for the guy to feel like he fit in. When he commented on her tone she felt her self blush. Some Americans she could imagine where very prideful, and tended to look down, or just assume that because the person they were speaking to, did not speak English as well as they did; that the person was less intelligent.
Rachael disagreed it took allot of learning, and smarts to speak two languages, and some people spoke then both very well. She didn't know how to reply to that with out making her self sound cocky for being smarter then the others, or sounding like she might be trying to defend them, so she just have him a slightly apologetic smile, "Sorry to hear that." She said trying to stay nutural. "No, I am very un-computer savvy." The just in case he didn't know that word, she rephrased it in a way that made it seem casual but, she hoped it would help. "I know how to turn them on, and type in word. The only game I have ever played on them is Chip's Challenge. Do you know allot about computers?" [/blockquote] ((Icons not of my own making. Credit goes to 'Leah' of MP.)) |
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