apartment – Wandering Vegans

Our Apartment…the outside

Jun 13, 2009

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The front door to our building: Our apartment building is the yellow one. Our apartment is on the left, ground floor (there’s only 4 apartments in the whole building).

Our apato is large by Japanese standards, and only 2 years old (10 years old is considered VERY old and ready to knock down. The building standards aren’t very high – houses go up in about 2 weeks and look like cardboard cutouts stuck together. Insulation is a plastic sheet between the inner wall and…

Week 4 Highlights

May 2, 2009

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Lara

in Japan

Tuesday: Our dining table was delivered in the morning, along with a rug for under Benno’s office desk. No more cardboard box dining table! That pretty much completes our furniture requirements. We also collected our Alien Registration cards from the City Hall office. Dinner was mushroom stroganoff and chocolate pudding. When we were in Tokyo…