I’ve been in Japan for a bit now, and as I’ve subtly alluded to, I’m not sleeping on the streets. Previously, I’ve mentioned that some sort of apartment exists, but I’ve not really gone into more detail than that. The purpose of this post is to shed some light onto the nature of my living conditions. To that end, this post will probably be pretty short because the apartment is small and generally, apartments are not very interesting. This post will be divided up into 4 short sections: my room, the kitchen, the toilet, and the bathroom. (more…)
I was going to write this awhile ago, but I broke my chair again. They haven’t replaced it yet, but there’s a second hand shop below my apartment, so I bought a real chair there for about $10. It’s so amazing. One of the best decisions I’ve made in my short life.
The title of this post is pretty vague; this isn’t going to be some kind of guide. Really, I’m just going to describe some of the hoops I had to jump through as a foreigner in the land of the rising sun. Foreigners are called gaijin in Japan, so I’ll use that term from now on. Unlike in the US, the term is not considered offensive, and it’s not uncommon for people and signs to address outsiders as simply ‘gaijin.’ (more…)
Another installment of my life in Japan.
Narita is a pretty simple airport so I didn’t have much trouble with it. I changed about 100 dollars into yen, and then withdrew about 300 more from an ATM. I did the cash exchange simply because you never know when an american bank will decide to not let you have money overseas. I had let them know beforehand of course, but this was to be on the safe side. (more…)
So the point of short blog posts was to make them frequent in easy to digests bits of goodness (or badness I guess). I think I would have been able to achieve that if it hadn’t been for an unfortunate accident. At the beginning of last week, I sat down in my chair and it broke. I believe there were two reasons for this terrible accident.
- The chair was small and crappy.
- I’m pretty damn heavy.
It took about a week for me to get a new chair, and then I went away for the weekend, so now during the last few minutes of my lunch break, I’m writing a post about airplanes. (more…)