I finally have internet! Now I can begin a long journey of reacquainting myself with the world outside of Japan!
So updates.
I guess not a whole lot has changed since my last post. I'm starting to feel pretty settled in Japan. I mean, I never really felt uneasy about coming or worried about adjusting to Japanese life. . .but I'm starting to really like my apartment and my city and living by myself/being solely responsible for my self and my living quarters. I've met and become friends with lots of awesome people from Japan and a bunch of other countries too. The partying is starting to die down, which I am most certainly not complaining about, it's about time for a rest I think. I'm getting used to my job and the ups and downs of it. Usually it's all ups. . .but there are occasional days where I get kind of pissed off. Almost never because of the kids at the schools though, usually it's the teachers that make me angry or feel uncomfortable.
Aichi is starting to get kind of chilly, but not anything like Canada (5 deg C tomorrow!!!). Here it is still around high teens, low 20s. The nights and mornings are chilly with no indoor heating though. It should be fun in winter!
Alright, so now stuff I've been up too. . .=pictures!! (yay internet connection!)
So I guess the first pictures I can post are from wayyyyyyyyyy back in September when I went on a bike trip to Tahara. Tahara is a beach off the left claw of the crab that is Aichi prefecture (it looks like a crab.). It was a really beautiful beach and the waves were a surfers dream. . .actually there were tons of surfers catching waves.
And next I had an Okonomiyaki party with some teachers from my office. Okonomiyaki is kind of like a bigger and better omelette. Depending on the region of Japan you're in, okonomiyaki usually has at least one different/special ingredient that sets it apart from other regions'. . .or in the case of tokyo, a different way of cooking/eating it. The teachers from my office teach Spanish and Portuguese and they are really cool. When we had the Okonomiyaki party we talked a lot about strange things that happened at our schools. For example, if there are students from any other countries or even if they are half Japanese, they are ALWAYS pointed out by the teacher as being x-ethnicity. It's really strange to me because it would be incredibly inappropriate to do this in a school in Canada. Anyways, it was a good night and we're getting together again for a Brazilian food night in about 2 weeks.
Next, I have a picture of a demonstration of some guys building a traditional style Japanese house. It's smaller than a normal one of course but it only took them like 20-ish minutes to get the frame done. . .but building seems to get done EXTREMELY quickly in Japan. Like, an entire apartment complex close to my house was built from the ground up to completion in about 2 months.
Alright, so next in chronological order was the weekend that Yuriko and Satoko came to visit me in Nagoya! We went to Nagoya castle and ate some delicious and famous Nagoya food. . .likeee Hitsumabushi! Hitsumabushi is essentially Unagi on rice (but really delicious Unagi) but before you eat it all, you add green tea, green onions, a bit of seaweed and wasabi and eat it as Ochazuke (kind of like a delicious soup). Anyways, it's probably one of my favourite foods in Japan.
And of course I have to include a picture of my favourite food!
We're getting caught up rather quickly! Ok, so next I have some picture from an Ikebana exhibit that I went to.
There's tons of them so I'll just post a few.
And that brings us all the way up to the past weekend! (ie. Hallowe'en weekend)
BUT I think that deserves a post all to itself. . .so I will post about that immediately following a bathroom break. ^^
So updates.
I guess not a whole lot has changed since my last post. I'm starting to feel pretty settled in Japan. I mean, I never really felt uneasy about coming or worried about adjusting to Japanese life. . .but I'm starting to really like my apartment and my city and living by myself/being solely responsible for my self and my living quarters. I've met and become friends with lots of awesome people from Japan and a bunch of other countries too. The partying is starting to die down, which I am most certainly not complaining about, it's about time for a rest I think. I'm getting used to my job and the ups and downs of it. Usually it's all ups. . .but there are occasional days where I get kind of pissed off. Almost never because of the kids at the schools though, usually it's the teachers that make me angry or feel uncomfortable.
Aichi is starting to get kind of chilly, but not anything like Canada (5 deg C tomorrow!!!). Here it is still around high teens, low 20s. The nights and mornings are chilly with no indoor heating though. It should be fun in winter!
Alright, so now stuff I've been up too. . .=pictures!! (yay internet connection!)
So I guess the first pictures I can post are from wayyyyyyyyyy back in September when I went on a bike trip to Tahara. Tahara is a beach off the left claw of the crab that is Aichi prefecture (it looks like a crab.). It was a really beautiful beach and the waves were a surfers dream. . .actually there were tons of surfers catching waves. 
And next I had an Okonomiyaki party with some teachers from my office. Okonomiyaki is kind of like a bigger and better omelette. Depending on the region of Japan you're in, okonomiyaki usually has at least one different/special ingredient that sets it apart from other regions'. . .or in the case of tokyo, a different way of cooking/eating it. The teachers from my office teach Spanish and Portuguese and they are really cool. When we had the Okonomiyaki party we talked a lot about strange things that happened at our schools. For example, if there are students from any other countries or even if they are half Japanese, they are ALWAYS pointed out by the teacher as being x-ethnicity. It's really strange to me because it would be incredibly inappropriate to do this in a school in Canada. Anyways, it was a good night and we're getting together again for a Brazilian food night in about 2 weeks.
Next, I have a picture of a demonstration of some guys building a traditional style Japanese house. It's smaller than a normal one of course but it only took them like 20-ish minutes to get the frame done. . .but building seems to get done EXTREMELY quickly in Japan. Like, an entire apartment complex close to my house was built from the ground up to completion in about 2 months. |
| Nagoya castle |
Alright, so next in chronological order was the weekend that Yuriko and Satoko came to visit me in Nagoya! We went to Nagoya castle and ate some delicious and famous Nagoya food. . .likeee Hitsumabushi! Hitsumabushi is essentially Unagi on rice (but really delicious Unagi) but before you eat it all, you add green tea, green onions, a bit of seaweed and wasabi and eat it as Ochazuke (kind of like a delicious soup). Anyways, it's probably one of my favourite foods in Japan.And of course I have to include a picture of my favourite food!
There's tons of them so I'll just post a few.
And that brings us all the way up to the past weekend! (ie. Hallowe'en weekend)
BUT I think that deserves a post all to itself. . .so I will post about that immediately following a bathroom break. ^^
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