November 7-13, 2005
Hello everyone
Once again its already Sunday and time for me to post off another weeklyemail. How is everyone doing? I have heard that the Aussie summer is gettinghot!? For those in other parts of the world..you are probably experiencingcold weather and snow! It is getting very cold here in Tokyo - colder thanSydney winters. We have had temperatures overnight of 5 degrees already.It is expect to snow a few times of the course of Winter too. So, I amtrying to build up my Winter wardrobe to stave off the cold and flu and keep myself nice and toasty!!
This week was very eventful, from a typhoon to an earthquake, from tennis to bowling, from a presentation to a test and a brutal suicide to car bombs.Read on to fnd out......
Monday started off as normal with a days worth of studying until I had myfinance class at school. Didn't actually get to do the presentation as thegroup before mine took 90 minutes to "finish off" their presentation fromthe previous lesson!!!
Tuesday 8th Nov I visited the National Disaster Prevention Museum here in Tokyo with my other Japanese classmates. We didn;t actually experience a real typhoon or earthquake here in Tokyo this week (I had you all nervous before, right?!). The museum included a simulation typhoon with real water and machine-generated air! It was very realistic and very scary. The earthquake simulation was very realistic too -5 of us at a time went into a room and experienced a simulated earthquake. Mine was 7.5 on the richter scale and I couldn't stand when it was at its strongest!! A good lesson for me in Tokyo is to jump "under something" and "hide" when the walls start shaking!!! Great advice hey!So Tuesday was a very eventful day.....
Wednesday 9th was more than I expected. I met up with another friend called Kazuya (ironic really) and we played tennis in the morning for a couple of hours. It was really good weather on Wednesday so we were very lucky. I won the first set and he won the second - I got nervous!!We had lunch together and then rented two dvd's - "Saw" (for those American psycho killing movie fanatics) and "War Of The Worlds" - way overrated!!!!We crashed on the couch at Kazuya's place and watched them. I rushed off at dinner time to go and meet another friend Takashi at Shinjuku - a guy I met back in Australia 4 years ago when he was on exchange. We went out for dinner and coffee and then challenged each other to a few games of bowling.As always I won the first game but then it all went to my head and Idismally failed in the second one. We placed bets on both games, so aftertwo games I owed Takashi dinner and he owed me 2 drinks (alcoholicpreferrably). So the 3rd game, was to wipe all bets - as I won, I don't haveto buy him dinner next time we meet up, but he has to pay for 2 drinks of"my selection"!!!! hehehe
On Thursday and Friday I had uni all day - eventually got my presentationdone for Finance on Thursday - even though the projector broke and I had to rely on my notes as slides!! I think someone was trying to tell mesomething......!!?There was a suicide on the Tozai Train Line on Thursday morning on my way to uni - someone jumped in front of an oncoming train - it always happens, so they dragged the body off the racks and resumed service as quickly as possible!!
I came home on Thurs and Fri night and being such a nerd I studied Japanese till the wee hours of the morning.
On Saturday Kazuya (my Kazuya) came to Tokyo to meet me - I had originally planned to go meet him in Hakone, but the weather report forecasted rain, so he decided to come see me. It turned out to be a beautiful Autumn day!! We had lunch at an all-you-can-eat yum-cha and Yakiniku restaurant - all for about $12!! We stuffed ourselves stupid with meat and sweets!
Then I thought I'd take my bowling success out of the bag again, so wechallenged each other to a few games. ONCE AGAIN, I won the first gamecomfortably, and he pitted me out at the end of the 2nd game!!! No bets this time!
We then went window shopping and he bought a very fashionableCharley-Chaplain-like black top hat which goes very well with all of his newwear!!! I bought a slightly more suitable hat for myself.
We continued window shopping and then came home and enjoyed pasta, wine and cheese.
Today (Sunday 13th) said goodbye to Kazuya at Ogikubo Station and then came home and tackled more study. I am going away next weekend (Fri-Sun) to Shirakawaon a tour with some uni friends, so I need to get all my work donebefore then.
Kazuya starts his new job on the 1st of December. He had gotten a job inHakone (just down the road from the current hotel he works at), but themanager revoked his application (woman employees only apparently - Icouldn't see the reason why he wasn't accepted!!!!!!). So, last Thursday heapplied for a job in Gunma prefecture - 2.5 hr north west of Tokyo. He gotaccepted, so from Dec 1st, he'll start there. He has his own room at theresort, so I can go and visit him whenever I want. We are both very happyabout that.
Okay, well that's the end of another week in the life of Tim Harrison.
I am really watching the news lately to see how these car bomb raids pan out in France. I don't know why people think blowing up cars (or people for that matter) will achieve any sound political goals. It won't.
I'll leave you all with that thought.
Take care everyone and keep in touch.
Tim
xx
Once again its already Sunday and time for me to post off another weeklyemail. How is everyone doing? I have heard that the Aussie summer is gettinghot!? For those in other parts of the world..you are probably experiencingcold weather and snow! It is getting very cold here in Tokyo - colder thanSydney winters. We have had temperatures overnight of 5 degrees already.It is expect to snow a few times of the course of Winter too. So, I amtrying to build up my Winter wardrobe to stave off the cold and flu and keep myself nice and toasty!!
This week was very eventful, from a typhoon to an earthquake, from tennis to bowling, from a presentation to a test and a brutal suicide to car bombs.Read on to fnd out......
Monday started off as normal with a days worth of studying until I had myfinance class at school. Didn't actually get to do the presentation as thegroup before mine took 90 minutes to "finish off" their presentation fromthe previous lesson!!!
Tuesday 8th Nov I visited the National Disaster Prevention Museum here in Tokyo with my other Japanese classmates. We didn;t actually experience a real typhoon or earthquake here in Tokyo this week (I had you all nervous before, right?!). The museum included a simulation typhoon with real water and machine-generated air! It was very realistic and very scary. The earthquake simulation was very realistic too -5 of us at a time went into a room and experienced a simulated earthquake. Mine was 7.5 on the richter scale and I couldn't stand when it was at its strongest!! A good lesson for me in Tokyo is to jump "under something" and "hide" when the walls start shaking!!! Great advice hey!So Tuesday was a very eventful day.....
Wednesday 9th was more than I expected. I met up with another friend called Kazuya (ironic really) and we played tennis in the morning for a couple of hours. It was really good weather on Wednesday so we were very lucky. I won the first set and he won the second - I got nervous!!We had lunch together and then rented two dvd's - "Saw" (for those American psycho killing movie fanatics) and "War Of The Worlds" - way overrated!!!!We crashed on the couch at Kazuya's place and watched them. I rushed off at dinner time to go and meet another friend Takashi at Shinjuku - a guy I met back in Australia 4 years ago when he was on exchange. We went out for dinner and coffee and then challenged each other to a few games of bowling.As always I won the first game but then it all went to my head and Idismally failed in the second one. We placed bets on both games, so aftertwo games I owed Takashi dinner and he owed me 2 drinks (alcoholicpreferrably). So the 3rd game, was to wipe all bets - as I won, I don't haveto buy him dinner next time we meet up, but he has to pay for 2 drinks of"my selection"!!!! hehehe
On Thursday and Friday I had uni all day - eventually got my presentationdone for Finance on Thursday - even though the projector broke and I had to rely on my notes as slides!! I think someone was trying to tell mesomething......!!?There was a suicide on the Tozai Train Line on Thursday morning on my way to uni - someone jumped in front of an oncoming train - it always happens, so they dragged the body off the racks and resumed service as quickly as possible!!
I came home on Thurs and Fri night and being such a nerd I studied Japanese till the wee hours of the morning.
On Saturday Kazuya (my Kazuya) came to Tokyo to meet me - I had originally planned to go meet him in Hakone, but the weather report forecasted rain, so he decided to come see me. It turned out to be a beautiful Autumn day!! We had lunch at an all-you-can-eat yum-cha and Yakiniku restaurant - all for about $12!! We stuffed ourselves stupid with meat and sweets!
Then I thought I'd take my bowling success out of the bag again, so wechallenged each other to a few games. ONCE AGAIN, I won the first gamecomfortably, and he pitted me out at the end of the 2nd game!!! No bets this time!
We then went window shopping and he bought a very fashionableCharley-Chaplain-like black top hat which goes very well with all of his newwear!!! I bought a slightly more suitable hat for myself.
We continued window shopping and then came home and enjoyed pasta, wine and cheese.
Today (Sunday 13th) said goodbye to Kazuya at Ogikubo Station and then came home and tackled more study. I am going away next weekend (Fri-Sun) to Shirakawaon a tour with some uni friends, so I need to get all my work donebefore then.
Kazuya starts his new job on the 1st of December. He had gotten a job inHakone (just down the road from the current hotel he works at), but themanager revoked his application (woman employees only apparently - Icouldn't see the reason why he wasn't accepted!!!!!!). So, last Thursday heapplied for a job in Gunma prefecture - 2.5 hr north west of Tokyo. He gotaccepted, so from Dec 1st, he'll start there. He has his own room at theresort, so I can go and visit him whenever I want. We are both very happyabout that.
Okay, well that's the end of another week in the life of Tim Harrison.
I am really watching the news lately to see how these car bomb raids pan out in France. I don't know why people think blowing up cars (or people for that matter) will achieve any sound political goals. It won't.
I'll leave you all with that thought.
Take care everyone and keep in touch.
Tim
xx
posted by Tim at 11:07 AM
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