Tsukuba Monogatari: Nineteenth post Key: A: Arrive in Tsukuba; welcomed by ex-trainees; get car, company badge, e-mail account; take lots of pictures B-C: The novelty wears off; you start getting tired of gyoza and yakisoba; you get tired of wearing your one week’s worth of clothes over and over; you work, you sleep, you’re married […]
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The honeymoon is over
Tsukuba Monogatari: Twelfth post Now that I’ve settled into my apartment, seen all my ex-trainees, gotten my Company badge, cash card and e-mail account; now that I’ve gotten used to driving on the left side of the road and learned how to park and unpark in Japanese parking lots without the aid of a shoehorn […]
There’s always more to learn
Tsukuba Monogatari: First post People who have lived in California all their lives can hear words like “hot” and “humid,” but I doubt very much whether they truly know what these words mean. It was mid-September in Wakayama, where I was visiting my friend Penny before starting my assignment in Tsukuba. I left her air-conditioned […]