After living in god-awful Leo Palace housing for 6 months, Sabina and I finally washed our hands of it and moved into a fantastic new place! Our rent is about $50 more a month, but the apartment is nearly triple the size of our old ones. Oh, and we are splitting rent of course, so it’s actually cheaper to not live in a cockroach infested shoebox with Midnight Music Man, Snoreface and Stompyfeet all around!
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| Our lovely Totoro themed dining room! |
We spent a good week or so putting the place together and I’m very impressed with the results. It feels homey, but not cluttered.
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| Our colorful TV room, complete with huge IKEA boxes! |
To celebrate our move, we had a housewarming party and invited other ALT friends and some of our Japanese coworkers. In total, I think we had somewhere between 30 and 40 people come by. Luckily, the neighbors didn’t rap on our door, the cops weren’t called due to noise (hooray for proper walls!), no one broke or spilled anything, and no one barfed (Well…except yours truly, but as owner I am exempt from such rules).
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| Kira, Aaron and Tami- who came all the way from Gunma! |
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| Some of our favorite teachers |
At first, we had mostly Japanese guests and the party was incredibly Japanese: sitting around, drinking, talking, ooh-ing and aaaah-ing over the new apartment. I was madly scurrying around trying to be a good hostess. Eventually more English speakers showed up and that’s when the party took on a distinctively Western flair.
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| Yousuke is probably the tallest man in Japan, but he doesn't like to brag |
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| So.Many.Shoes |
Overall, it was a grand time and if you’ll forgive my mushy sentiments, the next morning I felt incredibly blessed to have had the chance to meet such amazing people.
Hm, maybe it was just the hangover talking….
p.s. That title is in reference to something....someone....said. Sabina had received Valentine's flowers and when one of our friends brought a pot of pansies as a gift, they ended up in her room. Aforementioned "someone" felt left out of the flower circle and promptly stole the flowers away to her own room.
p.s. That title is in reference to something....someone....said. Sabina had received Valentine's flowers and when one of our friends brought a pot of pansies as a gift, they ended up in her room. Aforementioned "someone" felt left out of the flower circle and promptly stole the flowers away to her own room.
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