Typhoon Side Effect

It has been raining here for most of the past week and weekend. A typhoon hit the southern part of the country, and the forecasts are predicting rain for the next week+ as the storm moves out to sea. Good thing I brought a rainjacket and umbrella!

Here is a weekly dispatch of pictures:


Our assistant manager is being transferred to a different school, so we went out for shabu-shabu on Saturday night. It was tasty, but we all ate too much and then decided to order dessert. After an additional drink with Kurt, I headed home on my last train and got to experience my first train puker. Kind of gross, but I felt a little sorry for the poor guy (he was about two steps from exiting the train).

I also headed into Tokyo for some birthday present shopping (A & J, your gifts will be in the mail soon). I went a store called Honda Free off of Omote-sando (pricey, designer-filled street in the Harajuku neighborhood). Aaron and Dad, you would like it. This is a picture of a perfectly preserved 1969 CB750 they had in the store.

This is a picture of one of my favorite signs in my neighborhood (everything has a cartoon character over here). Not sure what it says, but I'm assuming it says something about watching out for children playing? The streets are narrow and every intersection seems to be a blind intersection.

Lastly, here is a picture of my "backyard" from my tiny balcony. There is a farm/orchard/plantation of some sort next to my building (it's only about the size of two city lots though... things over here are much smaller).

Thanks for tuning into this week's update. And, my arm is almost completely healed from last week.