And so begins another week of (no) work. However, this week promises to actually be exciting! On Wednesday, we all finally get to meet the teachers we will be working with and on Thursday and Friday, we will be touring our schools. But most exciting of all, I will finally get a keitai (cell phone) this week. Seeing all of the other JETs with their fancy-schmancy phones, I can't help but to suffer intense phone envy. The free phones here beat the pants off of any phone you can buy in the U.S. They all come with built-in digital cameras that can take photos AND videos with sound. They all have color displays. You can check and send email with your phone, including sending the photos you've taken. There's a camera out there that takes 1 megapixel photos. And to put icing on the already decadent cake, I'm going to have to find a fun keitai dangly charm to hang from my new flashy phone.
This past weekend, Ruth and I headed off to Ueno-shi (the home of the ninja) for another JET's birthday party. We had an awesome dinner of yaki-niku (meat kebobs) and in the typical Japanese fashion, we all trekked over to a karaoke bar afterwards. For the first time in my life, I found myself singing BY MYSELF, since no one wanted to sing Tom Jones' "Hooked on a Feeling" with me. It was a really interesting experience. I was really lucky in that "Hooked on a Feeling" is a really short song that is not too difficult to sing. I guess it made it easier that my audience was mostly drunk they probably didn't notice that I can't really sing all that well. We spent the night in Ueno-shi and the next day, we did some fun exploration of the city itself and checked out the festival that was going on. I swear, in Japan, on any given day, there is a festival celebrating SOMEthing. I have no idea what the point of the Ueno-shi's festival was, but it was great fun and I ate fun food until I was ready to die.
Ruth and I went also visited Nagoya on Sunday (and we found out there was a festival going on that evening, too. See? Every single day). We met up with two other JETs. For my female friends out there who love to shop: I WILL TAKE YOU TO NAGOYA if you come visit me! It's only a 20-minutes train ride away! Lots of fun things to see in Nagoya. I'm going to have to go back again sometime really soon!
Lewis got bored of being around me and Ruth so much (he says we're too girly or something. But I hate to break it to him, Ruth and I really aren't that bad...) and he headed out to Osaka with a bunch of guys. Osaka is my next weekend stop. We're heading over there on Friday after work (hopefully, with a cool new keitai in hand). I can't wait. Apparently Osaka is a really fun place to visit with oodles of things to do. And it's all just a short train ride away!
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