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Archive for November, 2007
There are two brands in Japan that are always changing, KitKat and Fanta. For Halloween I spotted this caramel KitKat.
I could happily live in a very small area. I could spend most of my time at a single intersection, having to venture a whole block away to go to the supermarket occasionally. This is why.
Previously I’ve posted about rice fields here in Japan, their abundance, and their odd placements. However here in Toyohashi, there doesn’t appear to be quite so many rice fields. I mean, there’s certainly lots of them, but we’ve also got a number of other mystery fields.
Back in Sanda I used to walk everywhere, and if I couldn’t walk there I took the train, or a bus. A car was totally out of the question, and a bicycle would have been nice, but with everything so close I didn’t really need it. In Toyohashi however, I live quite a way from the nearest train station, walking there would take a good half hour or more, much longer than the five minutes I became so used to in Sanda. Everything is still pretty close, but not quite as close as Sanda, so when I got to Toyohashi I bought some new wheels.
Well, I’ve moved into a new apartment here in Toyohashi, it’s across the road from my old one and is slightly bigger. It did mean that I was offline for two days, but now I’m back, with my new computer, and better than ever. To celebrate here is the long promised video tour of my first Toyohashi apartment. I’ll get one done of this apartment once I’ve finished moving in.
My laptop has been playing up for the last few months, I reformatted it before I left Sanda, but that hasn’t helped. It is nearing the end of it’s life as a useful piece of equipment. Two weeks ago I tallied up the money I had, and decided I could afford one despite still being owed money from Nova, so I took the plunge and ordered a new computer.
When I decided to leave Nova two months ago, I wasn’t sure it was the right thing to do. I was leaving a job that was easy, an apartment that was comfortable, and an area that was new and interesting. I was moving to a new job that was not necessarily worse, but certainly different to the easy life I was used to at Nova.
