Hi there! It’s been a while, I know… Well, it’s been a while I’ve seen the internet. My settling process in Japan is now almost finished, or just getting started, depending on which way you look at it. About two weeks ago I finished a two week intensive teacher training in Nagoya, run by the company I’m working for. After that I moved to my permanent location, which turned out to be 20 minutes east of Kyoto. It’s a great spot and the apartment the company has picked for me is very nice, and quite larger for as far that can be said of a Japanese apartment seen with western eyes. Things are generally smaller here, and as a big guy I bump into stuff every once in a while, but I knew that already from my previous Japan experiences.

 

Furnishing an apartment and turning it from a house into a home is something that takes a while, but I’ve been busy the past two weeks buying furniture and I’ve kept the door open so that atmosphere and hominess could easily find their way in, and so far so good. The only thing that I’m still waiting for is a properly working internet connection. I got connected last week, but it seems I’ve been blessed with a modem that doesn’t like to connect to the telephone exchange building. I’ve just been sent a new modem, and hopefully this will solve the problem. If not… well, that I need to call technical support. And as everywhere that takes a while before you then finally speak to a person. Added hurdle: that person will only speak Japanese. So I pray to the deity of modems that this new guy will perform.