OK!
if you send me something in Japan...
anything legal really, i heard a story of an Aeon guy getting deported because his friends though it would be fun to send him some illegal substances, yeah, he didnt know, but it didnt matter to the japanese customs, he got kicked out
pictures of the states are nice, perhaps of events, like Wildwood, or Alaska
or anything really, maybe certain food items, postcards, a letter?
if/when you send something, I'll return the favor with a little goodie from over here, maybe a trinket, maybe a tasty treat, who knows
but thats the new game, send dave pictures
Iris Tsunoda 203
130 Honmachi 8-chome
Kanie cho, Amagun Aichi ken
JAPAN 497-0033
ps - i will also take volunteers to ship me the Nintendo Wii when it comes out!
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
How was your weekend dave?
Despite having to put up with joanne and all of her gloating about her brand spanking new macBook, my weekend was pretty good. I really got up to just about nothing when it comes down to it. A few things that did happen:
I went to a party saturday night after work, a restaurant called Asunaro holds aparty on the last sat of each month and the owners are really really nice. they went to okinawa last week and brought me back a bottle os aomori (strong okinawan alcohol, kinda like whiskey i guess) a can of okinawan beer and some little charm things. People here are huge into gifts, luckily i had gotten them something when i went to inuyama castle, i also gave them a box of seroogies chocolates. either way it was a fun night eating and drinking with locals and another foreigner who started his own school, his names Tos and hes from tansinia, very cool guy.
I bought a bike! it's awesome, had my second class at the international center, oh, did i mention im taking japanese classes? This week we worked on numbers and counting, sounds like a simple thing, think again. The japanese have numbers from 0-10, for example, 10 is juu, one is ichi, 11 is juu ichi, two is ni, twenty is ni juu, (2 10's)
so thats all fine. but then if you want to say order a burger at mcdonalds you say,
hambuga, hitotsu, hitotsu = 1 when refering to certain objects. Then lets say you are at the post office and you want one one stamp, then you would use ichimai.
for one glass or bottle i think its ipon. so something as simple as 1 or 2 gets to be a pain.
after class i met joanne at the station and we grabbed some lunch and then wandered around trying to find a movie theatre, we did, but didnt want to see anything, we ended up going back to inuyama. then on monday i came back to kanie and went inot work for 32.4 mins and then came home did laundry, cleaned and then jo showed up (with presents
she went to the huge department store 10 floors i think, in nagoya station and found Unibroue, a wondeful beer brewed in canada, so she bought me a bottle, she also got me a thing of super hot spice powder.
ok, break time, and by break time i mean time for work.
if you are reading this then i actually made it to the internet cafe to post it
still havent gotten internet at the apartment
I went to a party saturday night after work, a restaurant called Asunaro holds aparty on the last sat of each month and the owners are really really nice. they went to okinawa last week and brought me back a bottle os aomori (strong okinawan alcohol, kinda like whiskey i guess) a can of okinawan beer and some little charm things. People here are huge into gifts, luckily i had gotten them something when i went to inuyama castle, i also gave them a box of seroogies chocolates. either way it was a fun night eating and drinking with locals and another foreigner who started his own school, his names Tos and hes from tansinia, very cool guy.
I bought a bike! it's awesome, had my second class at the international center, oh, did i mention im taking japanese classes? This week we worked on numbers and counting, sounds like a simple thing, think again. The japanese have numbers from 0-10, for example, 10 is juu, one is ichi, 11 is juu ichi, two is ni, twenty is ni juu, (2 10's)
so thats all fine. but then if you want to say order a burger at mcdonalds you say,
hambuga, hitotsu, hitotsu = 1 when refering to certain objects. Then lets say you are at the post office and you want one one stamp, then you would use ichimai.
for one glass or bottle i think its ipon. so something as simple as 1 or 2 gets to be a pain.
after class i met joanne at the station and we grabbed some lunch and then wandered around trying to find a movie theatre, we did, but didnt want to see anything, we ended up going back to inuyama. then on monday i came back to kanie and went inot work for 32.4 mins and then came home did laundry, cleaned and then jo showed up (with presents
she went to the huge department store 10 floors i think, in nagoya station and found Unibroue, a wondeful beer brewed in canada, so she bought me a bottle, she also got me a thing of super hot spice powder.
ok, break time, and by break time i mean time for work.
if you are reading this then i actually made it to the internet cafe to post it
still havent gotten internet at the apartment
Monday, May 22, 2006
the typical day
i've been meaning to do this for a while now:
I suppose my typical work day begins anywhere from 9-1030 when i get out of bed
(it depends how many times i hit snooze and how much work i have to do before i have my first class)
the usual: shower, breakfast, iron the shirt of the day
then its off to AEON, about a 7 min walk from the apartment
I'm normally the first one to arrive at the school.
My official start time is 12:45p.
I usually arrive anywhere between 10 and 1230
then its time to prepare for lessons, either that day's lessons or the next
depending on the day i have anywhere from 3-7 classes, ranging from 30 min to 50min
usually a healthy mix of kid's lessons and adult's lessons, and it can take up to 40min to prep for a class
then i will either have a class or if i have time i run out to the little market that is about a minute from
work and ill pick up somehting for dinner, or maybe head to Toraya for a little mitarashe dango (sweet rice balls on a skewer)
then its on for the day!
most of my classes go without a hitch, but some of them can be a little rocky
children crying, breaking things, running out of the room, almost wetting themselves... you know, the usual
i usually have a little bit of time between classes to eat, some days more than others
lunch is normally some leftovers from the previous night: egg,onion, garlic sushi rolls, various fish with veg and rice, pasta and tomato sauce, curry rice, maybe some sashimi (thats the raw fish) from the market to go with my rice
then its either start prepping for the next day or another class,
this goes on until about 9 when classes end, then i clean up, take care of attendance files, sometimes help out with random tasks, and i usually leave around 945 and 1030.
then it's home and dinner, typically i dont do work after work, but sometimes ill prep for something
maybe watch a movie, go for a run to the internet cafe, clean, play my ds or study japanese maybe laundry
bedtime is roughly 1-2a
and then i go all over again
right now i spend most of my waking hours doing AEon related tasks, i've also been in every monday so far, which is my day off (i work tues-sat) but that should get better as i settle into things
hope you liked it
I suppose my typical work day begins anywhere from 9-1030 when i get out of bed
(it depends how many times i hit snooze and how much work i have to do before i have my first class)
the usual: shower, breakfast, iron the shirt of the day
then its off to AEON, about a 7 min walk from the apartment
I'm normally the first one to arrive at the school.
My official start time is 12:45p.
I usually arrive anywhere between 10 and 1230
then its time to prepare for lessons, either that day's lessons or the next
depending on the day i have anywhere from 3-7 classes, ranging from 30 min to 50min
usually a healthy mix of kid's lessons and adult's lessons, and it can take up to 40min to prep for a class
then i will either have a class or if i have time i run out to the little market that is about a minute from
work and ill pick up somehting for dinner, or maybe head to Toraya for a little mitarashe dango (sweet rice balls on a skewer)
then its on for the day!
most of my classes go without a hitch, but some of them can be a little rocky
children crying, breaking things, running out of the room, almost wetting themselves... you know, the usual
i usually have a little bit of time between classes to eat, some days more than others
lunch is normally some leftovers from the previous night: egg,onion, garlic sushi rolls, various fish with veg and rice, pasta and tomato sauce, curry rice, maybe some sashimi (thats the raw fish) from the market to go with my rice
then its either start prepping for the next day or another class,
this goes on until about 9 when classes end, then i clean up, take care of attendance files, sometimes help out with random tasks, and i usually leave around 945 and 1030.
then it's home and dinner, typically i dont do work after work, but sometimes ill prep for something
maybe watch a movie, go for a run to the internet cafe, clean, play my ds or study japanese maybe laundry
bedtime is roughly 1-2a
and then i go all over again
right now i spend most of my waking hours doing AEon related tasks, i've also been in every monday so far, which is my day off (i work tues-sat) but that should get better as i settle into things
hope you liked it
Friday, May 19, 2006
knackered
apartment pics
by the way:
if you are going to send me mail, like a letter, i guess anything really
send it here
Iris Tsunoda 203
130 Honmachi 8-chome
Kanie cho, Amagun, Aichi ken
Japan 4970033
by the way:
if you are going to send me mail, like a letter, i guess anything really
send it here
Iris Tsunoda 203
130 Honmachi 8-chome
Kanie cho, Amagun, Aichi ken
Japan 4970033
Thursday, May 18, 2006
te ri ya ki
another thursday draws to a close,
in case you don't know, thursday is my hell day
even though i only teach 3 classes (sometimes 4)
two of them are crazy, and by crazy i mean the longest 30 mins of my life
again, and again, and again
and i just saw these
Get a Mac
pretty neat
and have i mentioned the Wii
I had planned on writing more, but i have rice cooking at home, lessons to plan, and im getting sick again
so i think its home, eat work bed for me
till net time
in case you don't know, thursday is my hell day
even though i only teach 3 classes (sometimes 4)
two of them are crazy, and by crazy i mean the longest 30 mins of my life
again, and again, and again
and i just saw these
Get a Mac
pretty neat
and have i mentioned the Wii
I had planned on writing more, but i have rice cooking at home, lessons to plan, and im getting sick again
so i think its home, eat work bed for me
till net time
Monday, May 15, 2006
Add on
Seems like ages since any post of real substance.
Same as so far things have been good, although i will say this
be glad that you learned this damned language as a child
it makes no sense that we can understand anything
anyway,
I recently got my alien registration card, which means
i have a bank account
i will be getting a cell phone soon
and maybe getting the internet at my apartment
we'll see about the last one though
Joanne's still alive, although shes pushing ehr luck on bikes
or should i say, flying off of them.
oh, and i saw that tons of people have actually commented on the blog!
sorry about that, i have Mail setup to file them in a blog comment folder
only problem with that is it doesnt tell me i have mail
but thank you fora ll the comments, some good news
---------
go bosox
sarah and jenna getting out!
the brewpub in the making
kris and the new job with red hair
bri and brooke the postcard was sent out today, finally
nancy i just got your email
flick, i miss you of course
ez nice chatting
and melanie thanks for the pictures of boo kitty
who looks like he's slimmed down a bit
the feline formerly known as tubbins!
but yes, things are good, except its late and i have to catch a train in the morning t ogo home and finish the work that i left at home, silly me
moments of zen include:
Wii
and
PS3
let's be honest the 360 is just, well, not worth it
not until, can anyone say Halo 3?
Same as so far things have been good, although i will say this
be glad that you learned this damned language as a child
it makes no sense that we can understand anything
anyway,
I recently got my alien registration card, which means
i have a bank account
i will be getting a cell phone soon
and maybe getting the internet at my apartment
we'll see about the last one though
Joanne's still alive, although shes pushing ehr luck on bikes
or should i say, flying off of them.
oh, and i saw that tons of people have actually commented on the blog!
sorry about that, i have Mail setup to file them in a blog comment folder
only problem with that is it doesnt tell me i have mail
but thank you fora ll the comments, some good news
---------
go bosox
sarah and jenna getting out!
the brewpub in the making
kris and the new job with red hair
bri and brooke the postcard was sent out today, finally
nancy i just got your email
flick, i miss you of course
ez nice chatting
and melanie thanks for the pictures of boo kitty
who looks like he's slimmed down a bit
the feline formerly known as tubbins!
but yes, things are good, except its late and i have to catch a train in the morning t ogo home and finish the work that i left at home, silly me
moments of zen include:
Wii
and
PS3
let's be honest the 360 is just, well, not worth it
not until, can anyone say Halo 3?
Sunday, May 14, 2006
crud
had a long post all written out, and then i changed tabs to download the halo3 trialer
and i shut the browser window
stupid
anyway, things are good, im an official alien, i have a bank account, but little money, and no one wants to take a travelers check
kinda funny
soon ill get a cell phone, maybe interent
sweet
look out, its kitty
and i shut the browser window
stupid
anyway, things are good, im an official alien, i have a bank account, but little money, and no one wants to take a travelers check
kinda funny
soon ill get a cell phone, maybe interent
sweet
look out, its kitty
Monday, May 08, 2006
response to those wonderful people
you read,
you love,
and you comment, now if only potter could show some love, or anderson, or ez, or bush, or dale, or aj, you are a bunch of lazy rats
Miss Crazy Anna Bah Nah Nah ... na na na naaaaaaaaaahhhh
My camera is (please wait as i find out by going to olympus .com)
whooo, archives can be intense,
Olympus C-7000
and yes i usually do the little buttons myself all those F's and other numbers
GO red sox
you love,
and you comment, now if only potter could show some love, or anderson, or ez, or bush, or dale, or aj, you are a bunch of lazy rats
Miss Crazy Anna Bah Nah Nah ... na na na naaaaaaaaaahhhh
My camera is (please wait as i find out by going to olympus .com)
whooo, archives can be intense,
Olympus C-7000
and yes i usually do the little buttons myself all those F's and other numbers
GO red sox
status bar saves the day (BRIAN AND BROOKE)
----- (BRIAN AND BROOKE ------
what is your address?
real mail
----------------------------------
once again im at the internet cafe that wont let me see this site in english, but thanks to the status bar, i can see the name of the page in english, so i know where the link can take me, wah hoo.
not much to report, vacation is over, i was at work forever today even though its my day off, had to prepare for Tuesdays classes. And all of the kids lessons are reviews, which means a lot of stuff for each lesson, and a storybook about monster swamp, i think the next post will be a wishlist type thing, you know, things that people could send in case they cant think of something, yeah, thatd be cool.
anyway, another week, another day of being there so late that i dont get to the store before closing, so not much in the way of groceries, luckily i stocked up on the essentials before vacation ended.
plus i dont need to go into work until 1245 tomorow, although ill go in earlier than that.
Oh yeah, this saturday night, anyone who's in the area is invited to
Desparados after final AEON classes, its near the Shinsakae stop, theres a good map in the japanzine
hope to see you there
pretty____
what is your address?
real mail
----------------------------------
once again im at the internet cafe that wont let me see this site in english, but thanks to the status bar, i can see the name of the page in english, so i know where the link can take me, wah hoo.
not much to report, vacation is over, i was at work forever today even though its my day off, had to prepare for Tuesdays classes. And all of the kids lessons are reviews, which means a lot of stuff for each lesson, and a storybook about monster swamp, i think the next post will be a wishlist type thing, you know, things that people could send in case they cant think of something, yeah, thatd be cool.
anyway, another week, another day of being there so late that i dont get to the store before closing, so not much in the way of groceries, luckily i stocked up on the essentials before vacation ended.
plus i dont need to go into work until 1245 tomorow, although ill go in earlier than that.
Oh yeah, this saturday night, anyone who's in the area is invited to
Desparados after final AEON classes, its near the Shinsakae stop, theres a good map in the japanzine
hope to see you there
pretty____
Sunday, May 07, 2006
a new post, and more pictures
Jo and I are in a net cafe in Inuyama, my battery is about to die,
then i guess ill just play my DS against people around the world
its rough
lets see, so the newest batch of pictures are from Nagoya, Inuyama (castle pics) and Kanie a bit
I know they arent exactly labeled at all, but thats life,
some of them are from Inuyama castle, and a garden that was used for traditional tea ceremonies
very exciting stuff,
what else, oh yeah, at nagoya port they had this petting zoo, and they had a dog pen where you could rent a dog for a while, take it to a fenced in area and torture it, i mean love it as your own
very interesting
well the battery is about dead,
as of now im debating if i should get internet at my apartment
although i cant do anything till i get my alien registration card
and here is your moment of adorable-ness
then i guess ill just play my DS against people around the world
its rough
lets see, so the newest batch of pictures are from Nagoya, Inuyama (castle pics) and Kanie a bit
I know they arent exactly labeled at all, but thats life,
some of them are from Inuyama castle, and a garden that was used for traditional tea ceremonies
very exciting stuff,
what else, oh yeah, at nagoya port they had this petting zoo, and they had a dog pen where you could rent a dog for a while, take it to a fenced in area and torture it, i mean love it as your own
very interesting
well the battery is about dead,
as of now im debating if i should get internet at my apartment
although i cant do anything till i get my alien registration card
and here is your moment of adorable-ness
Thursday, May 04, 2006
blogger japanese
why should it be a surprise that this site is in japanese, oh well.
lets see, been busy for the last 2 weeks, work has been fun, meeting students, teaching, good times overall, im sure there will be rants galore soon enough about the little ones.
so this week has been golden week, which means vacation week,
joanne and i have gone to nagoya port and checked out the park, got an idea of where things are etc, so next time well actually goto the aquarium and the italian village
hmm, we went out with one of her coworkers and a student, we went around nagoya and suburbs, went to a cool little traditional chinese tea house, up the massive tv tower and went out for traditional okinowan food.
where does the time go.
well i guess thats all for now
im at a net cafe so i dont have my pictures to post yet, some good ones
take care
lets see, been busy for the last 2 weeks, work has been fun, meeting students, teaching, good times overall, im sure there will be rants galore soon enough about the little ones.
so this week has been golden week, which means vacation week,
joanne and i have gone to nagoya port and checked out the park, got an idea of where things are etc, so next time well actually goto the aquarium and the italian village
hmm, we went out with one of her coworkers and a student, we went around nagoya and suburbs, went to a cool little traditional chinese tea house, up the massive tv tower and went out for traditional okinowan food.
where does the time go.
well i guess thats all for now
im at a net cafe so i dont have my pictures to post yet, some good ones
take care
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