Not much point in starting this thing if I don't tell anyone about it! I'll send out an email today. This is my first day at work as the only English speaker... the English guy who I am taking over from left on Saturday and the Canadian girl who I'll be working with has gone home for a month so I am all by my confused lonesome. But! this means people are being ultra nice to me.
I don't seem to be able to leave the house without being whisked away to some wee house for dinner. I set out on Saturday evening to buy cornflakes for breakfast and ended up watching crazy TV and being fed (and fed and fed) three courses by this lovely lady who runs the local dairy. She is a friend of the Chinese JET who lives upstairs and apparently I am eating every meal there for the foreseeable future!
On Friday night we had the leaving do for Phillip - a BBQ Japanese style. This means small chunks of flame grilled vegetables for starters and then buckets of still-living sea creatures tipped onto the fire. I can't name most of what I have eaten in any language. I will post a picture when i can. As the evening went on and the sake flowed people began discussing karaoke. Due to language difficulties my conversations consisted of people naming songs and me singing a phrase to make sure we were on the same wavelength. By the time we got to the bar I had apparently promised to sing just about every Beatles song and an unhealthy amount of Billy Joel... all good. I specialise in making an arse of myself in public and it went down well (as far as i could tell).
Anyway. life continues to be hot (33), muggy(90%), confusing and exciting.
Hope you are all keeping well.
donna
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