Saturday, February 6, 2010

Sendai

Hi Everyone!

I finally was able to upload a few pictures to blogger! They are somewhat out of order but it won't let me rearrange them so oh well. Here is a picture of the outside of my building covered in snow. Last night it snowed all night and this is what it looked like when I woke up. It continued to snow all day and we probably got another 6 inches throughout the afternoon.

The third picture is a picture of Ally and I this morning in front of her building which is right next door to mine. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of the inside of my place yet. I will be moving in to a new place at the end of March (same building) but I will take pictures soon of the inside to show you all.

Today 3 of the current teachers took all of us new teachers to downtown Sendai to see the sights and shop. We first had to take the bus from our apartment and then get on the Subway. Ally and I were saying how much more confusing this seems than China and we think it is because we have so much more help. In China we were just kind of thrown out there with a figure it out your selfs and so we had to. Here everyone is helping us with everything. It is pretty nice!

By the way you can see more pictures of downtown Sendai on my facebook. Blogger just takes forever to upload pictures. Downtown has kind of a main shopping area that we stayed in today. We got to eat lunch at an Italian place and it was pretty good. However, they had no pictures for us to point to! Their foreigner menu was in Japanese and Italian so we were able to decipher the Italian enough to say what we wanted. We then went to the 100 yen and 300 yen store (1 dollar and 3 dollar) and shopped around. They have EVERYTHING you would need for your apartment at the 100 yen store. It is kind of amazing.

We also stopped at Starbucks and had some delicious green tea! After we got back I hung out at my new friend, Kelsey's apartment for awhile. It was fun and I'm excited about all the fun people I'm getting to meet! I then cooked dinner, and by cooked I mean I toasted an english muffin. I don't think I will be doing a ton of cooking here. My actual oven is smaller than my toaster oven and the two halves of my english muffin barely fit in my toaster oven. Oh by the way below is a picture of a dog in downtown sendai that I thought looked like a lion.


Well I better run! Some friends are coming over for a movie night in a few minutes.

4 comments:

JENNY said...

1) 6 inches is a lot and it looks really pretty.
2) That dog does look like a lion. haha.
3) I like the picture of you and Ally.
4) That is funny that they have a 1 and 3 dollar store. Buy me something. Come on. It's only a dollar. You know you love me.
5) We miss you.

Beth said...

The snow looks beautiful but COLD!!! We're happy that you're having such a great adjustment to Japan.
Love you,
Mom and Dad

Kyla said...

that dog is kiiiilling me. haha so funny!

sandra pierson said...

Your apartment bldg looks similar to the one we lived in except your bldg looks more upscale and modern. The snow is beautiful. As a Texan I couldn't believe the amount of snow ... and the fact that it fell for six full months! (Of course we were north of Sapporo.)