Emma and I are sitting side by side in a small cramped Internet booth... The keyboard I am typing on has about 2729 extra buttons and labels on those buttons... Also, the web page is in Japanese, so I am hitting buttons and links from memory... So if the blog entry doesn't have the same witty and ironic feel to it, it's because I\m trying my darnedest just to spell things correctly...
As far as work goes, here's what we've found out... We're both doing training and orientation in Himeji, which is about 20-30 minutes West of us (Akashi) by train... Then after that, Emma will be working in Kakogawa, which is about 10-15 minutes West by train...I am working in Akashi at the Akashi branch... It is about 100 yards from the train station, and about a 20 minute walk or 8-10 minute bike ride from our house...
There is a supermarket about 4 blocks north of our house where we can buy the goodies we need... Have been having curry (Basically beef stew with curry powder in it... 1 Packet costs 90 cents or so) and rice basically every night for supper (cooking the rice in our nice new rice cooker) granola and coffee for breakfast, and then having lunch somewhere out and about on the town...
So far we've eaten some yakisoba (noodles fried with vegetables and meat) and a small burger... The slice of tomato was bigger than the patty...
Got our alien card registrations, got our bank accounts opened (we got to the bank as the guy was closing the door, about 2:59, lucked out otherwise we wouldn't have been able to get a bank account until Tuesday on account of some holiday on Monday... "National Willard's are Moving to Japan Day" I suspect...), have been buying little stuff for our house... NEED FURNITURE... but every furniture shop has little shelves that cost 120 dollars... We need to find a goodwill-esque type place... if they exist...
Our mailbox had a lock on it and there was no key in the apartment... so.... Gerber to the rescue... Bent the metal, remove locked lock, bend metal back, put own lock on...
Our luggage came, that was a fun time... Like Christmas, only you wrapped the presents yourself...
It's been raining basically the entire time we've been in Japan... Got umbrellas... Keep them on us 24/7 when we're ever out of the apartment... Was a typhoon yesterday... basically a lot of rain and wind...
Other then that, just been biking around, exploring... Chilling... Wishing we had Internet so we could more easily email, surf the web, download TV shows...
Oh! and I saw a Yamaha acoustic guitar for only $250... might be my first big purchase after the first paycheck.... or sometime...
Oh! You all can now commence sending us mail... Large bills only please... or boxes of Mac and Cheese... Whichever...
Later!
Willard
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