Friday, October 01, 2004

Holiday for Tokyo People

I'm not sure if there really is a holiday or not, but I didn't have school, that's all I know for sure. So Today I spent walking around to the Immigration office in Yokohama to get my working visa. I GOT MY WORKING VISA!!! It's a month late, but better late than never. Then I had to go to my Ward Office, (City Office) to apply for my Alien Resident Card so I would be an official Japanese Resident. I guess I really am turning Japanese... Kinda scary. They took a little longer than I thought they would, but still it worked out. I have to go back on October 13, to pick it up. Then I'll be officially a Japanese resident and I can open a bank account so I can get PAID.
I walked around the Sakae Ward area around Hongodai station, because my friend sent me an e-mail to hang out. But for some reason... I didn't want to hang out. I ended up walking back home and going to a CD store to look at some CD's. There were a few that I wanted to buy, but I just didn't. I was going to get some Utada Hikaru singles. I looked at them and realized that I just didn't want to buy them then. So maybe they will still be there when I go back some other time. From then I just lounged at home. I ate a lot today for some reason too. I had lunch at Yoshinoya, and then bought some snacks at a little mom and pop place, and then bought dinner at a grocery store.

When I got home, there was a package from my family. They had sent over a lot of my clothes so I wouldn't have to buy a lot while I was here. They also sent me my calendar for the wall, photo album, and my books. It was very necessary material, but not everything that I needed was sent over, but at least it was pretty good. I was unpacking for a long time and then I was on the computer until TTki called me over to talk to His cousin since she will take me to Disney Sea. We were going to discuss when and what time to go since I'm working most of the time. Actually it was a different cousin this time, but same aunt. So I met TTki's Cousin's Sister, but it's still his cousin. I never caught her name so I really can't use intials. They had Pizza Hut and I had a slice Korean BBQ Pizza. It was interesting, not bad, but not incredibly great either. But I think I'll just have to get used to it. The crust is so thin and the slices are in squares. Much smaller than I expected, but if I'm starving I'd eat it. We decided, actually they decided that we were going to go to Disney Sea on October 6th at 7am.

That's this Wednesday, so I've got to get some cash out of the ATM to go. I'll get a discount ticket of $43, doesn't really sound like a discount to me, but they say it is. Next week I will go on the school trip on October 14th-16th, so I'll have a pretty busy few weeks since I'll also be starting to teach on Saturdays too. And then the school festivals are coming up at the end of the month so I have to teach the teachers. I came back and was talking to BHu online, she told me that she was going to go Camping this weekend. Which is good. She said she saw my sister at the AIDS walk when she was walking. My sister was surprised to see her. She stayed up late to talk to me again, and all I did was show her pictures from my past. It took a lot of time, and I didn't really get to talk to her that much, but this month will be Busy Busy Busy, that's for sure.

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