Well we're here in Tokyo and have just about completed our orientation. We've learned a lot and gotten an amazingly large number of books and other materials. We've met a lot of people from all over the world which has been pretty cool. For example, the other night we went out to eat with people from our prefecture and then went and sang karaoke. The crew we were with included the following: an Irish guy, a British guy and girl, and Kiwi guy (that's New Zealand), an Australian girl, a Scottish girl, and some other Americans. It was a blast and a lot of fun to hear about their countries and to tell them about ours. It was especially funny to hear the British guy, Marc talk about how Americans have murdered the English language. We're definitely looking forward to hanging out with all of them some more in the future.
So we leave today to take a 3-4 hour bus ride to Shizuoka to go to the Board of Education there and then after that we will be taken by our supervisors to Fuji. Kely and I work at different schools so we have different supervisors and will probably be split up for the first time today. So that should be a very nerve wracking experience. But we're excited and hopefully will make our way back to the same apartment by the end of the day. And we'll also get our first look at Fuji-san today. That should be quite surreal.
I'm not sure when we'll get internet working in the apartment so it might be a while before I can write again, but I'll try to find time as soon as possible. Kelly has put up a video on her blog at http://kellyinjapan.com so check that out. Ja matta!
3 comments:
Great to read what you're doing. I'm thinking about you two and praying for you. Loved Kelly's video. Great adventure!!
I'm in Ft. Worth with Conrad. He just finished the first day of the bar. He feels pretty good. Two more days to go. Then we head back to Abilene and take off for our family vacation in San Diego. We'll get to see Catherine Henry Piepenbrink, Sandy and Nate Parde and I'm not sure who else. We also get to see Julie Miller take over the role of Christine in Phantom. That will be fun. Tell Kelly hi. Have a great time. -- Adam Hester
Oh what fun it sounds like you're having -- too bad you will have to work while you're there! I do hope you and Kelly found each other again at the end of the day!
Wonder how long it will be before I quit looking at the clock and thinking about what time it is in Japan - lol
Love, Mom
hey man
hope you guys are having fun amidst all of the work.
in case you're wondering, the astros still suck. i'll let you know if anything changes. actually, we just swept the mets and are only 8 games out of the wild card...so who knows??
im acting like you're deep in siberia with no access to anything. sorry.
eat some escolar for me.
k
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