Today was rather lazy. I passed out early yesterday so I woke up early today. Just kinda chilled out for a while. I wanted to take things a bit easier today, rather than walk 2 hours in some random direction. Decided to check out Maruetsu and stocked up on a bunch of food. Some stuff I recognized, others are a mystery. Figured I'll save a lot more money this way rather than going to 7-11 every day.
Also checked out some job listings on Craigslist and Gaijinpot. I pulled up about 30, and now I gotta apply to them ugh so tired.
Main event for today was dinner with my Uncle's friend Sam. Only family contact that lives in Japan. I met him at Shinjuku station and we went to Go Go Curry together, His English is very good, but its thick with accent. I'm used to it though. We chatted a lot about our histories, about my mom and uncle, about our distrust for China, global energy needs, usual dinner conversation stuff. He let me know that he'd be there for me if I needed help. I appreciate that a lot. He also helped me get this Pasmo card, something that wasn't around back when I studied abroad here. I guess its just your usual train pass, except it excludes tax. Its not a big price reduction (my 130 yen ticket dropped down to 124 yen, wowzers) but I suppose it adds up to an eventual free ride. Its like getting your 10th ice cream cone for free!
And that reminds me, Japan is weird with ice cream. They have dairy - they do have the room for that up in Hokkaido, but they don't seem to have tubs of ice cream at all. They gotta have that individually wrapped stuff asdfasdf. I MUST KEEP LOOKING. I'll check Hanamasa next time I need to do groceries, which won't be for a while. I hope.
Breakfast: Tempura food bowl. It was to fill the void left over from skipping yesterday's dinner
Lunch: Tuna Onigiri
Dinner: Chicken Curry
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ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying reading your journal posts! I can't believe it's already been so many days. I really enjoy reading about what meals you ate that day for some reason. Are you in Japan on a tourist visa? I'm not sure how that all works. Good luck with finding a job! I'm interested to see how you feel about living in Japan. Look forward to reading more of your posts!
ReplyDeleteWe super special Americans get a perk where we don't need an actual visa to travel in Japan. The only limitations are that we have a working passport and we do not stay any longer than 90 days. Getting a Work Visa overrides that that and lets people stay indefinitely though.
ReplyDeleteAh okay. That makes sense. I don't know how the work visa works. Do you have to apply for one before or after you get a job?
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