Ok, so it's been a while since I last wrote anything. Excuse: I can't upload any pictures, and I can't really get online. How, then, am I updating this? Well, this unsecured (techinically "pay" network I am able to connect to) apparently allows traffic to the wide array of google services. This means I can search google, but I still can't get to any websites outside the google products. I have access to gmail, blogger, google maps, picasa, etc... However, I cannot download or upload any attachments. Sooooo, I can't really use picasa, and I can't get to facebook. For someone who grew up without the internet, one would assume this is ok. And, it is... to a point. It gets a bit isolating, at times. Luckily, I have nothing but good things to say about the people I have met, in Kumamoto.
My apartment is, as one would expect, small. However, it is notably larger than the apartment I occupied on Front St, in Wilmington. That said, the neighborhood makes up for it's size. Being back in Japan more than makes up for the smaller accomodations. I will post pictures, after I clean it up, and get my full internet privileges back. That will happen after I get my Japanese bank-issued credit card, in about 2 weeks. With the credit card, and my alien registration card (gaijin card), I pay considerably less for the phone.
Will leave it at that (a sorry excuse for not posting more). However, I plan on including a new element to the blog. One that Eden (my co-trainee, and co-coco curry conspirator(good luck saying that one fast)) cooked up: the occasional write up about my continued taste-testing of all the available vending machine coffee offerings, both cold and hot. I look forward to Eden's hot corn soup chronicles.
For now, that is all. Goodnight, everyone.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Training Day
Ok, first off: sorry there aren't any pictures. I'm planning on dragging the camera around, a little later, but yesterday didn't offer much in the way of opportunity (aside from a 4 hour layover, in Dulles).
That said, it's good to be back on Kyushu. In some ways, I think it hasn't really hit me that I'm back. There have been moments where I could feel it to take some time to put together a decent post about the things that have really stirred up some of that feeling, when I have the right words for it. I think the moment I find a vending machine with some C.C. Lemon in it will be the appropriate time.
Leaving the States was about as bittersweet a moment as I can think of. Having to leave a lot of people behind, good friends, and people I care about, is never easy. Knowing that I would be coming back to Japan, and being able to see friends that I haven't seen in over year, tempers some of that. I've missed being here when I wasn't, and I'll miss people back home when I'm not there.
Anyways, today was the first "official" day of training. Went about as well as one could hope, and I'm looking forward to this job. Haven't been able to say that about many jobs in the past, so that's a definite improvement in situation, in itself. Today, we covered some of the basics, as far as work is concerned, and then concluded with lunch, and a quick tour of the area around the hotel and Kyushu office. Not a very strenuous start, but they're being very accommodating of any jetlag issues. Luckily, I managed to knock that one out in the days leading up to arrival, and on the plane. Now, I just have to adjust to shaving, again, every day. That one is going to be far more difficult. I'd grown quite accustomed to being free to adorn my face with days, and weeks, worth of stubble. No longer, I'm afraid.
I'll have more to write about, soon, when things start to pick up, and I've been free to wander. I'll be sure to add some pictures, as well, to make this all much more interesting. Maybe, if we're all lucky, it'll be worth reading, soon.
Until then, またね。
That said, it's good to be back on Kyushu. In some ways, I think it hasn't really hit me that I'm back. There have been moments where I could feel it to take some time to put together a decent post about the things that have really stirred up some of that feeling, when I have the right words for it. I think the moment I find a vending machine with some C.C. Lemon in it will be the appropriate time.
Leaving the States was about as bittersweet a moment as I can think of. Having to leave a lot of people behind, good friends, and people I care about, is never easy. Knowing that I would be coming back to Japan, and being able to see friends that I haven't seen in over year, tempers some of that. I've missed being here when I wasn't, and I'll miss people back home when I'm not there.
Anyways, today was the first "official" day of training. Went about as well as one could hope, and I'm looking forward to this job. Haven't been able to say that about many jobs in the past, so that's a definite improvement in situation, in itself. Today, we covered some of the basics, as far as work is concerned, and then concluded with lunch, and a quick tour of the area around the hotel and Kyushu office. Not a very strenuous start, but they're being very accommodating of any jetlag issues. Luckily, I managed to knock that one out in the days leading up to arrival, and on the plane. Now, I just have to adjust to shaving, again, every day. That one is going to be far more difficult. I'd grown quite accustomed to being free to adorn my face with days, and weeks, worth of stubble. No longer, I'm afraid.
I'll have more to write about, soon, when things start to pick up, and I've been free to wander. I'll be sure to add some pictures, as well, to make this all much more interesting. Maybe, if we're all lucky, it'll be worth reading, soon.
Until then, またね。
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