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Monday, August 01, 2005
10:15 PM
hello hello from lovely miyako-jima!
arrived on thursday after three days in tokyo and a day on the main okinawan island for orientation. i was greeted by my supervisor kawane-sensei and some other foreigners living here. now i am sitting in the teacher`s room of the high school on irabu island and am surrounded by a lot of japanese speaking that i do not understand.. for the moment i am living in the apartment of the english teacher i am replacing, an american guy named nick who has been very helpful. he is back in the states at the moment visiting so i have the place to myself. on friday i visited 6 appartments and chose a nice one- i cannot wait to get in, unpack and settle!
the week-end was nice, went to the beach and a german beer-drinking festival yesterday at this weird german village they have here called UENO,it was pretty funny to watch the japanese chugging away at the common japanese ale, called orion.
now i have to go as i must make a self-introduction in japanese (gulp),and meet the principal (double-gulp).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ half hour later... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
as it turns out i did not have to introduce myself today but will have to instead on thursday. i did meet the principal,though, and gave him `omiyage`, which means a gift from your home country, i.e., a cheesy `Canada, eh?` t-shirt and a beautiful Inuit art calendar.The introduction was slightly awkward as my japanese is pitiful. i will definitely have to kick-start my learning.
there is not internet at nick`s house so this will be my main communication tool until i get internet of my own. yahoo is firewalled so i cannot use it on this computer.
feel free to message me on this!
sayonara for now..Labels: japan, miyako, school
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