Settling in

Hey wassup my people!

This is V here, still live from Japan, and yes, still mooching off Internet connection in the staff room which, by the way, is starting to earn me the wrath of some fellow teachers. So I have to watch my ass when chatting on facebook. So please excuse me if we’re talking and I suddenly do not answer anymore. Situation is coming closer to being resolved though as I am getting the Gaijin Card next Friday (yes, YES!!) and will therefore be able to apply for Internet access and all the other basic necessities a 23 y.o. Canadian gal might need to survive in her Japanese countryside.

So, apart from stealing net time at school, what have I been up to?

Well, my adaptation phase seems to be coming to a slow close as I am now getting settled into a little routine of work, food and play. The upside of this routine being of course the “play” part. I have found a new partner in crime in my little inaka region, goes by the name of Rebecca, from the US of A and is just as geeky as little old me. We also have a shared fondness for eating out, just hanging and talking for hours about random stuff. Also, all those of you who have been privy to my storytelling skills (meaning how I add in truckloads of useless details), be advised that she’s exactly like me in that department. But hey, it’s not like I mind ;)

So the two of us met at Tajima Sports Fest (Tajima Sports gathering, more like) and we’ve been hanging out pretty much every week ever since. She’s been really helpful quelling my bouts of cabin fever and keeping me from starving or surviving solely on a ramens diet.

Plans for the weekend involve hanging at the Styx (the Styx being Heaven really, a small Gaijin-owned restaurant where you can eat a mean club sandwich) this Saturday night and catching a concert by local Gaijins. So yeah, the Styx is Gaijin Central in Toyooka so far. And Sunday morning apparently will be spent at Koko’s Sports Fest, the elementary school near my house, with the afternoon booked for an onsen excursion in Kinosaki.

And I now regrettably have to get my ass on track and work on the lesson plan my teacher has so nicely decided to dump on me NOW, needs to be done for Monday. Y’know, some work would actually be FINE, if they didn’t wait until the very last minute to drop it on me. When that’s the case, it just blatantly pisses me off. But hey, guess that’s Japan for ya!

Keep in touch peeps, I miss y’all like motherfuckin’ crazy!

The Inaka Princess,
V