yamaonna

Wow.  Things have been such a whirlwind since I got into the Omiya training house.  Training for Aeon has been full on, but pretty rewarding.  And now it’s over! (for the time being….)

Um, its hard to really know what to say.  We’ve done so much in this past week, but I really don’t want to bore you with the little details….

Well, from the beginning.  I touched down at Narita around 8pm on Nov 1^st, and the lovely Xina and Jason were kind enough to have me stay with them for the first 2 evenings.  On the Friday I had to make my own way out to Omiya to be met by some of my trainers and be taken to the training house.

I met all my fellow trainees that day, and then the following day we actually started training.  Sunday Brooke (another aussie) and I went into Asakusa and Shinjuku to do a little sightseeing.  And then Monday through to Friday has been all training, training, training.

The group I’ve been training with are all pretty nice people.  I won’t lie and say that I get along with all personalities here, but there’s only ten of us and we are a fairly close knit group.  Mind you, a majority of the group really really like to party, and I’m just not up to that.  Every night.  Until late….. (shakes head)

On Friday night after we finished our training we all went out to an Izakaiya for drinks and some pub grub, and then headed on over to karaoke.  It was a pretty good evening, even if Cindy (American, and strangely enough a physics major too) and I ended up leave a few hours before everyone else.  What can I say….  I act older than my age???

Today hasn’t been much, just some wandering around Omiya.  Unfortunately it was a pretty poor day weather wise so that restricted me a bit.  I was looking forward to spending some time in the park just relaxing and reading my book.

Tomorrow I’ve arranged to meet up with Peter in Ikebukuro and just hang out.  Hopefully the weather will be somewhat better.  I don’t want to have a huge day because next week’s also going to be killer.

On Monday I’ll be taken to my new school, and they’ll set up my bank account and help me find a mobile phone.  Which, believe me, I’m really really feeling.   I guess having a mobile is a bit of a security blanket….  And then on Tues and Wed I’ll be observing classes.  On Thurs it seems I’ll actually be teaching….  Which is a little scary… but I can do this!!! (pep talk..)

The internet situation here is rather intermittent, so although I want to email everyone, it looks like I wont have the chance.  I really sorry!!!  I’ll also try to upload some photos to my flickr, but I really can’t promise anything….  We’ll see how it all goes.