Saturday, 19 November 2005

I Quit Nova!

Well it's almost two years since I've been here and have done nowhere near the ammount of things that I wanted to... so today I gave notice at my Nova branch! My last working day should be the 12th of December, then I'll go back to Oz for Christmas and New Years and take January off.

My VISA expires in April so I need to get a fulltime job that will sponsor me. Hopefully I can start work Late Jan to early Feb. Of course if I find a great job, I'll start as soon as I can, but I really need a break both in Oz and here.

If you have any advice, let me know! Never been out of work in Japan before.

Tuesday, 15 November 2005

HJC Homepage

Am seriously thinking about studying Japanese next year and getting a student VISA so did some surfing and, well... how great does this school look? (feel my sarcasm): Hiroo Japanese Center

Saturday, 12 November 2005

A sickie

Don't know what's happening to me but I had to leave work yesterday as a major sickness overcame me around 5pm. Started off as a headache but by the second half of my shift I was feeling dizzy and had to leave the classroom mid-lesson to vomit (not pretty). Was even more sick when I got home and have tacken todat off to relax. No vomiting today but feel really... hungover actually. That's kind of what it feels like. Havn't drunk anything in a while though. I guess it's the flu or more Japanese food food poisoning (if it is, it'll be the third time since I've been here!).

In other news, I have a new web page design client so have been working on his site a bit. Not much today as I've been too sick to consentrate, but good news anyway.

Thursday, 3 November 2005

A Good Day

This is going to sound really pathetic, and scarily like a kind of person that I hate, but I have a favorite pastry. It's a wierd green rockmelon based cake with REAL orange rockmelon in the centre (I'm talking the fruit people... IN A CAKE! INSANE I TELL YOU!) Whenever I buy breakfast at the Japanese-trying-to-be-French bakery at my station I ALWAYS buy this bun.

Anyway, this morning they were sold out so I bought my second fave (I sound really pathetic now). As I was paying, the shy clerk appologised in Japanese for not having any of the "melon bun" today and giggled to herself. That was great so I laughed too. I guess I'm a regular but didn't really appreciate it until someone gave me a genuine welcome conversation instead of the cliched "GOOD MORNING!" yell that most people get.

It's a shame that I'm moving into Tokyo from the first of next month (yeah, big news, right?) I'm going to miss this little Japanese-trying-to-be-French bakery... and their green rockmelons buns.