きたばかり
Flight
The flight was long but relaxing. I saw Chris Cooper in Breach - very good - and then that dumb movie with Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William Macy about the suburban motorcycle gang. I read a lot of stuff too, and slept about 4 hours. The 13 hour part was totally fine, but I was a little nervous when I got there. On the plane, I got to have my very first real Japanese situation: asking the guy next to me if I could get by to go to the bathroom. It was much more monumental to me than the occasion would suggest!
After landing, I just followed the signs until I got to the arrival lobby, where luckily my 学生相手(student partners) were waiting with a big BERT FORSYTHE sign. They're so incredibly helpful and I probably would have been lost for hours or more without them. Nozomi chan and Saeko chan have shown me around a lot and made the adjustment process a lot more comfortable.
Family
My host family is one person, my お母さん (mother). She and her husband, who is away on golfing trips, have two grown children, and two different homes in Chiba. The one I'm staying in is an apartment in 津田沼 (Tsudanuma), four stations down from the college.
My two rooms in the US are like this, and this, but in Japan it's much different and much more simple. Here's sort of a view of it.
School
Class is actually very light for me. I only have class three times a week on Mon, Wed, and Fri, and a meeting on Tue afternoon, but I have a big project that I need to start working on. A guy who is a grad student in the economics department here could be setting up an interview for me with an investment banker from Nomura Securities, apparently a huge Japanese company. He said she lives in a posh area of Tokyo and would tell me a good time to go, probably sometime later this week. This interview isn't for work, by the way, it's just to get some answers about business in Japan and how it's different from that of the US.
More Pics
So I don't actually have any pictures of me with people yet, but I took quite a few of surroundings and they're all up.
Leaving from Dallas
Off my balcony
Nighttime front balcony of apartment
Train passing by at night
Living Room
The street in Tsudanuma
The flight was long but relaxing. I saw Chris Cooper in Breach - very good - and then that dumb movie with Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William Macy about the suburban motorcycle gang. I read a lot of stuff too, and slept about 4 hours. The 13 hour part was totally fine, but I was a little nervous when I got there. On the plane, I got to have my very first real Japanese situation: asking the guy next to me if I could get by to go to the bathroom. It was much more monumental to me than the occasion would suggest!
After landing, I just followed the signs until I got to the arrival lobby, where luckily my 学生相手(student partners) were waiting with a big BERT FORSYTHE sign. They're so incredibly helpful and I probably would have been lost for hours or more without them. Nozomi chan and Saeko chan have shown me around a lot and made the adjustment process a lot more comfortable.
Family
My host family is one person, my お母さん (mother). She and her husband, who is away on golfing trips, have two grown children, and two different homes in Chiba. The one I'm staying in is an apartment in 津田沼 (Tsudanuma), four stations down from the college.
My two rooms in the US are like this, and this, but in Japan it's much different and much more simple. Here's sort of a view of it.
School
Class is actually very light for me. I only have class three times a week on Mon, Wed, and Fri, and a meeting on Tue afternoon, but I have a big project that I need to start working on. A guy who is a grad student in the economics department here could be setting up an interview for me with an investment banker from Nomura Securities, apparently a huge Japanese company. He said she lives in a posh area of Tokyo and would tell me a good time to go, probably sometime later this week. This interview isn't for work, by the way, it's just to get some answers about business in Japan and how it's different from that of the US.
More Pics
So I don't actually have any pictures of me with people yet, but I took quite a few of surroundings and they're all up.
Leaving from Dallas
Off my balcony
Nighttime front balcony of apartment
Train passing by at night
Living Room
The street in Tsudanuma
3 Comments:
Hi Bert!
Thanks for the pictures! To see them makes me excited for you. What is it like to ride the train? Does it run faster than the Subte en Buenos Aires?
What are you eating? Take pictures of food if you can.
For you it is Monday night. For me it is Monday morning and I am recently entering work. You are in the future. Can you tell me what will happen to me today?
I love you.
Have fun,
Jen
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Sorry the last post was mine... I wanted to edit it so I just deleted.
The translation for "partner" should be "パートナー" in Japanese. We have too many Katakana Nihongo I know... :P
Well I hope the sign we were showing didn't embarrass you!
It was good that you could sleep 4 hours. Other students told me they couldn't sleep a lot because of a crying baby...
Anyway, enjoy your stay and good luck on your project!
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