What I look like in the eyes of Japanese children (I'm the blonde one).
Yes, yes, I know...what happened to my blog? Well, the gist of it is that my camera ran out of batteries (sorry not many new pictures) and I had a cold for a while and I simply did not really do much besides work these past weeks. I have started meeting with a Japanese English teacher (introduced through connections) and we are doing a language exchange. So she helps me with my Japanese and I help her with her English. She is very nice and she has a very cute one-year old daughter, so lessons are always entertaining. We meet once a week for a few hours. My "textbook" that we are using is a bilingual manga (Japanese comic book) called, Nodame Cantabile...it's fun. I am hoping that this combined with using the Rosetta Stone program that I have will help me out...as I still have a long way to go. Anyway, it is something I am working on.
I also went to the doctor's a few times as well. Once to get medication for my asthma and the other was for a routine check-up that was requested and paid for by the company I work for. Both times were interesting (since a translator is required in my case)...but I think in general, I like their system fairly well. Being who I am (a.k.a the girl who always becomes friends with the school nurse right away), I guess it is inevitable that I get to have these kinds of experiences while living abroad.
That should be it for now. I will try to be better about making more posts in the future. Ja ne!
