Month: April 2009
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Tokyo Shopping Adventures
Today was a big day. First we rode our bikes to Kisarazu station by 9:15 to catch two trains to Minami-Funabashi, where we visited Ikea. We ordered a couch, dining table and chairs, and a rug for Benno’s desk. Also picked up some essentials like a plastic divider for our cutlery drawer, and of course…
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Who needs language skills?
Week three highlights: The weeks are flying by. Soon enough we’ll be on Golden Week holidays and that’s almost the first school term gone… Monday: I got paid on Monday- pay day is always a good day! Especially when you have a Disney bank account?!? Tuesday: So, with yen in hand we went out to…
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The Cutty Mug
It reads, “Everyone loves ladybirds. Because it’s small,colorful, and cutty.” There’s a lot of this sort of bad English around. The letter sets in particular are hilarious.
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Second Week Highlights
Monday: Going to the town hall after school to get a health card and not being able to get mine because they a) didn’t believe me that I lived at the address I said I did and b) didn’t think I looked like my passport photo. So they posted it and I got it in…
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Yay! One day weekend!
What should everybody do on their day off? Sleep in and have pancakes for breakfast. Benno making pancakes in the kitchen. In the afternoon we walked past the 100 yen shop to a large park up the hill called Odayama Park. We visited a traditional Edo house, the Old Anzai Family house. It was a…
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Week One of Teaching: the highlights.
The starts can be a little early – on the bus by 7.10 to be at school by 7.25am with the first lesson at 7.30am. At least it only takes around 10 minutes on the bus and the bus stop is 2 minutes walk away. On days when I don’t have the first lesson (which…
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Starting school
First teachers’ day at Gyosei. I had an introductory walk around the school before being introduced to all the other International faculty staff members. We sat in the staff room for over a hour listening to random Japanese from old men teachers (saying such things as ‘let’s keep the corridors clean’ and ‘our college admission…
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Tokyo Excursion
Shinjuku Gyoen TOKYO here we come! We got up early to be on the 8.06am express bus from Apita to Tokyo train station. It took about an hour to travel through Kisarazu, along the Tokyo Wan bridge to Umi Hotataru, under the tunnel to Kawasaki and up the expressway into Tokyo. We took the train…
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