My Car

Beah cookout!

Out of control karaoke. Romen attempting to pick me up.

Karaoke-all you can drink for two hours!!

A get together at my friend, Romen's, apt! The gathering led the next photos...

Enjoying card game of sorts in the living room!

Last Couple of Weeks

Well, for the last couple of weeks I have been getting to know my fellow JETs. They are a pretty fun bunch of people. We've done beach parties, a gathering at my house and of course Karaoke. I had some big events happen like getting my satellite tv, a mobile phone, a car(mastered driving on the left), a bank account, insurance card, and a pension book. I guess I became a real person with a real life in Japan. We discovered a restuarant run by a former JET (who has settled here). It's an Indian place with out of this world red curry, which I can not tell what solice it brings me. I have eaten there once a week since discovering it. I have joined a small English theatre group. It looks like we are going to do the play Aresnic & Lace. I've also joined a gym and have been going steadly with a couple of friends. I can't find any yoga in the area so I am going to have to buy a tape. I got my first pay check or should I say pay cash, they gave me a great big envelope of cash! I'll get direct deposit for the next payment. My landlord continues to speak to me in Japanese and we oddly understand each other. He and his wife bought my these beautiful trays of sushi when they realized I had friends over. I returned their gift with a bag full of pears that I had picked. (I'll have those picks up soon.)
Tomorrow is my first day of school. I have been asked to give a speech in Japanese, which well it's going to be interesting. I have cut the speech down to the following four sentences: Minasan, Kon-nichiwa. Watashi no namae wa Margaret desu. America jin desu. Eigo no jikan minasan no otetsudai go dekiru kotowo tanoshimini shiteimasu, yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
Enjoy the pics!

Ok so we have my dining room, then my bedroom-excuse the mess I was afraid of who would stop by so I through all of my dry clothes on my bed. The third photo is of one of my bedrooms upstairs. Yes, that is right I wrote bedrooms.

Off the hook Japanese bathroom. I am waiting for the toliet to talk to me. I haven't figured out that function yet.

These are pics of my house from the road, from the side and my back yard. As you can kind off see my neighbors live right on top of me.

Looking into my house from my front door.

This picture is of my front door. You have to turn your head to the left.

My gigantic shower and small tub. The shower room is just off of my laundry room.

Kitchen with rice cooker and all. Please notice no oven, but the Microwave is pretty intense.

Other side of my living room. My cool pillows are from the dollar store. The table actually turns into a heater, will keep you posted on how it works...

View of my closed in porch where I hang clothes. I close the doors and can turn on the AC.

Here are some of my new friends! From left to write we've got Ian, Myself, Romen, Jessica, Onika, Marcus, Erich, Matt.

Yazu-cho

OK, So I am attempting to set a web blog in order not to inundate everyone with one large bulk e-mail after another. Since, it seems so far I have much to talk about. Right now over here it is hot and sticky, and I am waiting for the phone guy. I have a feeling they ment he is coming tomorrow instead of today.