Hooray for the Internet! (Hup-hup... Huzzah!)

Dear friends and family,

I've had internet access at my house here in Nakatosa since Monday 20th - AND IT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE :D It's been super excellent to be able to Skype Out to home, and to chat to people online and catch up through emails and newsletters which people have sent. Time has definitely passed more quickly since I've been connected. Being able to communicate freely with people back home makes this house feel much less lonely.

I have been keeping a diary in MacJournal, and I'll make a blog post with 'content' ;) some time soon. Until then, if you are interested in seeing some photos, I have posted a bunch through my facebook account. I believe you need to have a facebook account to view them, so my apologies to Saru.

I'll post a couple of photos here too, but not albums & albums' worth.

Catch you soon!

Bye to Shinjuku

Last night the Aussies went to our Embassy here in Tokyo. There were some informative and encouraging short speeches, followed by some food and drink. It was nice to feel Australian ;) When one lady showed a 30-second video snippet (from a website) about Australia, I even felt a bit emotional about it all.

Today the Group A JETs are being scattered across the country. In just a little while I'll be meeting with the rest of the Kochi Prefecture JETs, and we'll fly from Haneda Airport down to Kochi.

I'm glad to be going to the town where I'll spend my time this year. We've only been in Shinjuku for three full days, but it feels like longer - a week or something. There have been so many seminars, and there are over 5000 people at the hotel now. I feel peopled-out and drained. I look forward to being able to dump my stuff in a place I can call 'home', and make it a nice place (esp. for friends and family to visit!)

I don't yet know what I'll be doing once I get to Nakatosa today. Maybe they'll say, "Here's your house. Go and sleep." Or maybe they'll make me do work. Or maybe they'll show me around a little bit...

I hope to have internet access at 'home' in the near future, but I can't be certain about how long it will take.