Its about 5:45 PM right now, and I just got back from our last day of training, which really didn't amount to all too much: we did some practice lessons in the morning, but it mostly amounted to the trainers telling us about housing (which is changing tomorrow - we're all moving to apartments in Chiba (its way cheaper to live outside of Tokyo than to live in)), and then a guy who runs a mobile phone business through Softbank (a cell provider in Japan) that provides foreigners with cheaper deals. I waas about to hook myself up with an iPhone, but then I thought, "there's a 5 day holiday break coming up and I can't cash any travelers checks during that time. Do I really want to throw down a good 150K Yen on something that I can pick up when I'm much more economically and geographically stable?" So I held off, and am, thus, still phoneless. Its not so bad... I'll just mooch off of everyone else who did buy a phone.
Who knows when I'll be placed, probably pretty soon. Gotta run, we're all headed to Shibuya. I'll post pictures at some point.
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hey this is Sayaka. saw your blog on facebook and noticed you mentioned moving to Chiba... which is my old stomping grounds! do you know where in Chiba you are going to be? I am soooo jealous reading about everything you're doing. I'm still stuck here in Seoul but hope to get back to the mother land ASAP :)
ReplyDeleteI have a mad good friend who lives in Chiba, just outside of Tokyo that could show you the best damn basement jazz bar in the entire country, that serves whiskey, scotch and bourbon exclusively.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it kind of makes me sad that the iPhone is the end-all to everything at the moment. I remember Japanese cell phones always being superior and shocking me with their technology from month to month. I always like to keep the hope that they've got something better going on than we do technologically...