Lodging

So the day arrived when it was time to move from my temporary digs in Hongo, nagoya and to move on up in the world to my own place. Out of the training apartment and into my new home. So i boarded the lovely shinkansen and headed off to tokyo at top speed....oooh i should mention there were some packing issues, i had it seems accumulated far more possessions (ok shopping) than i expected and again my baggage was not able to tolerate the quantities of shoes, clothes anf other goodies i had aquired. Quick last minute emergency dash to the shops for yet another bacg to load my possessions into...okj back tot he bullet train, so off i sped to tokyo, now i had had a fairly good nights sleep before, so i was surprised when i found myself waking up to discover i was 10minutes from tokyo, the 2 hour journey sped by as i somehow managed to drift off to sleep, i didnt even get time to eat the obento i packed for myself. oh well there was always the next train trip from Tokyo to Koriyama. So i switched platforms and embarked on my next journey that was to be the final journey too. Shortly upon leaving the station, again in my super duper speedy bullet train, or shinkansen, the business man next to me started to unpack his obento...and wow, what an obento it was. he had a container with rice, with the customary pickled plum on top, a container with fish, one with some kind of radish and vegetable mix, and then one with something else too that io couldnt quite see without obviosly staring at the poor man. After he devoured his lunch he then proceded to take out his last container from his nifty insulated obento bag...this one contained some fruit..ahhh desert.
Well did i feel inadequate as i opened my pink obento lunch box from the 100yen store to reveal some pieces of fruit and some crackers....hmmmmm

well i arrived safely after an hours journey aside the bento man and was greeted at the station by a chap by the name of Ian who is to be my ps for the next year...(ps means he is my manager i guess u could say)
He showed me on the walk to what is to be my new home, all the places along the way. its about a ten minute walk but its quite nice. the more i saw of my new home town the more i liked. Its not too small, its not huge either, but its pretty good. kinda like the three bears u know, one bed too hard, one too soft, well Koriyama is the just right bed.
So we arrived at my apartment complex and Ian showed me the way to room 304..(he lives in 504, emma in 405, and the other NT james in 202)
I stepped in to a pretty much empty room, and was kind of..well i cant say disapointed as its exactly what i expected, i guess it just was this big empty space and i was looking for a home, and it didnt feel like one, well i made quick work of that..... more on that soon

so we set about doing all the administritave tasks required, move in paperwork, registering as an alien, getting information on where to shop etc
then it was time to clean..and the cleaning still hasnt stopped 3 days later. its surprising actually. this apartment is so small but i feel like its taking forever to get clean. You see it was preciosly tenenated by a young man by the name of TJ and i believe Tj and i have very didfferent standards when it comes to apartment cleanliness. As a requirement all teachers vacating apartments must ensure the apartment is clean. I have no doubts Tj walked away thinking, yeah it looks clean to me, im sure itll be fine, i dont need to do anything else....in walks Brandy...and well lets just say, as i mentioned, three days later cleaning the place...thanks TJ the pother guys got brand new apartments not previosly used by peppy, so their places were proffesionally cleaned, and all their appliences and furniture, BRAND NEW!!! i got ripped off. Oh well, its nearly done now.

Well ill set about getting photos asap.

xxx
Bella