For Tiffani, the toire:











So, the birthday was good. We really just ended up wandering around Tokyo. The boys (the interns who also live in my apartment complex) bought me a lovely cake:

It was a roll cake with fruit in it. I ate most of it myself, and only shared a little with them. :)

Training has finished up, we had to do demo lessons on Friday and I had to pretend I was teaching a 3rd grade class about the rooms in the school. Our lessons focus mainly on having fun, so I planned lots of games and I think it went well.

Today was my first day on the job. For now, I'm working in recruiting in the office. Today I inputted a lot of data, and tomorrow I'll be scanning pages of info all day. Hooray. I'm excited to get to teach - they say I might get to substitute sometime.

I have a new favorite Japanese song. Go watch it.

For more pictures and stuff, check out my flickr.

Comment if there's something you want to hear about! I'm out like trout.

Happy birthday to me!

Hello from Chiba-ken! I've moved into my apartment. It's in Makuhari-cho. We're east of Tokyo, closer to the coast. 2 other guys from the internship live next door and the next door over, so we're partying it up, AKA going to bed at 11 every night and being generally quiet.
Okay. Because I know you're all dying to see it, apartment pictures:
So this is the general layout. It's a crappy thing I put together in Paint, but you get the idea. It's pretty small, but I like it. Here some more actual pictures:
the building from the outside and the view from the front door



the kitchen is small and is basically in the hallway


the bed is on a loft, and the door on the wall beneath it leads to a sweet closet




Yeah. That's really all the exciting stuff. If there's anything else you want to see, comment with your special requests and I can post more pictures.

So today's my birthday and we're going to Tokyo to Ueno Park to celebrate. They have museums, a zoo, amusement rides, and street performers. Since it's Golden Week here, there will be lots of people there. It'll be exciting! I'll post pictures from it later, if I get any good ones. :)