Pictures!

Japan has been great.  I've been sucked into the school teacher life that a lot of Japanese teachers live (10-12 hour work days) but that's not going to last much longer.  I've been trying to help some students out for a speech contest that's on the 14th of this month and it's less than a week before sweet freedom!

There is still no answer on when/if I'll get internet at my apartment.  If I don't have it by mid winter I will destroy something valuable... of someone else's of course.

Not sure what I'm going to be doing in the meantime.  Been thinking of ways to make some friends and ideas are coming and will be put into plan in 2 weeks or so.  Hoping they work.

I have a car, it will be officially paid off and MINE on the 21st!  Her name is Maria and cost me around $1,200.  She is the smallest thing I've ever ridden in and will get a picture or two of her up soon hopefully.  In the meantime, here's some pictures:

This is a picture taken of a place near my apartment.  The place itself got off a little lucky.  Most of the other places are filled with rubble.  We just got our first convenience store reopened like 5 days ago.  It's still a little crazy to think about.





This is a picture of a boat... obviously.  There are a few other boats around, a few bigger than this one.  There used to be some on the road I drive on to go home, but those have been taken off, luckily.






Here is a picture of one of the bigger boats.  Check out the larger version of the picture by clicking on the picture and you can see 2 kids playing under the back of the boat.  At least they're trying to enjoy the irony.







Great examples of why the Japanese need English if they're going to attempt to use it.  Check out the bigger version of this picture too.  She's obviously never been to college.







A $1/plate sushi bar where you can order stuff on the screen that you see in the picture.  The ordered sushi comes along on bullet trains (really fast trains they have in Japan).







When I went to meet one of my schools, I walked in to this.  The school is great and the students are cool too for the most part.






It doesn't look like it but this spoon with a crack face eventually became miso soup.  It was probably as good as crack.  This was during a teaching orientation that I had a little over half a month ago.







 This is about a 10 minute drive from where one of my friends, Tara, another ALT lives.  It's awesome for a view and if anyone else is reading this from where I'm at and feels like getting laid, this is the place to take that special someone.  They won't be able to turn you down!

 自閉症【じへいしょう】 (jiheishou)  (n) autism; (adj-no) (2) autistic