9:57pm
music: wilco- she’s a jar
Im writing this from my new apartment. it’s gorgeous. I absolutely love it. I have a white sliding paned glass door separating my kitchen from my room. I have a balcony, a heated toilet seat, wood floors and a ridiculous amount of room. I completely expected a tiny little bachelor but my kitchen itself is a good size and my room is so big. Im so in love and so happy. I cannot wait to hit the 100 yen store (equivalent to our dollar store) and start decorating it. The teacher im replacing is super cool, her and her coworker who Mike is replacing took us out for dinner last night at this awesome super authentic asian fusion resteraunt. Best pad thai I’ve had ever in my life. She introduced me to these drinks called chu-hi that you buy from the convenience store that are like carbonated fruity beer and are delicious. I just sat around for an hour by myself watching sex and the city drinking a chu-hi. I’m so content. The city I live in, Okazaki is adorable. it’s small but full of cute resteraunts and little stores. Arden and Dawn (the teacher’s we’re replacing) took us to Nagoya today, the fourth biggest city in japan and just a 20 some odd minute train ride away. The city is awesome, tons of huge designer stores and little Japanese shops. I bought a couple 600 yen (6 dollars) tops from the gap (go figure) and then I spent 2700 (27 bucks) on body butter and soap. I go to japan and spend my money at the gap and body shop. then we went out for lunch and then missioned back to okazaki.
let’s backtrack. Last week was training, it was intense and sucked and we did nothing except get out at 7pm, go for dinner then do our lesson plans for the next day and sleep. definitely nothing interesting. Saturday night, out last day of training the trainers took our entire group to an awesome resteraunt called boon where we had a huge assortment of Japanese food and it was completely delicious. after that we went and did karaoke and I totally killed salt n peppa’s shoop without even looking at the screen once. We missioned to our schools the next day, which was so sad separating from Kanika and Lindzy. Lukily Kanika is close by. Nagoya is our centre meeting point and it’s equal distance from both of us. Unfortunately Lindzy is super far away and that makes me so incredibly sad because I had such a great time hanging out with her last week.
my manager picked mike and i up at the station in Nagoya and took us to our apartment where we met Arden and Dawn. Arden briefly showed me around the apartment and then our manager took us out and bought us our first load of groceries which was so incredibly sweet. we then came back to our apartments, I unpacked then napped, then Arden and Dawn came back and took us out for dinner. Arden’s awesome, we seem pretty similar. I’ll be taking over all her students so hopefully I’m well received by them. Tomorrow’s my first day at Amity. Im nervous as hell but lukily I just observe all of Arden’s lessons for the day. Then Wednesday I teach one lesson, Thursday I teach two, Friday three etc. etc. Im sooo nervous to teach, you have no idea. Wednesday I get a cell phone which I’m so ridiculously excited for a) because their phones here are absolutely amazing and adorable b) because im going to get an unlimited email and text plan and c) because then I will also have a camera. Unfortunately it’ll take about two months until I get internet in my apartment. It takes about a month to get my alien registration card, and I cant go get the internet until I get that, and then It’ll take another month after that for someone to come and set up my internet in my apartment for me. Luckily there’s a free internet café around the corner from my school which I can use on my lunch hours etc. Im going to do a bit of reading now then sleep. big day tomorrow. I cannot stress how much I love my apartment though. <3s.
