Well sorry that it has been so long folks we have only just got the internet in our home and before that it was kind of hard to do all this at the internet cafe. Well at the moment my parents are here and it has been fun spending time with mum and Tony (Andi thinks so too!) so we spent the last day or so in Nagano with some of the snow monkeys! That was great fun, the monkeys are so tame and at 6 in the morning we had them outside our window and on our roof. Then we went and had a bath with them... The onsen were interesting it was weird being naked in front of people that you have never met before and then bathing with them. Andi saw some men bathing from a distance and stated quite casually "he is wearing black speedos!" she then looked closer and realised that they were not black speedos!! He was naked!! Eating dinner was fun first we cooked our own soup... kind of like a hotpot type thing with vegies, meat and that sort of thing. Then we had some fish that was salted and very nice and we ate some crickets too (yes the insect type!) mum didn't eat them but the rest of us did,and we also has sashimi, tempura plant leaves (maple leaves, hemp leaves and some kind of tempura flower) and finished it off with some green tea.
our work is still going well with nothing really annoying us, we are off our probation period at the end of august and then we will start getting proper money! We have also made some of the places around town regular spots where we visit! We have our local bar (a place called uptight where they speak English and have good cheap drinks), our local restaurant (no not McDonald's! A place called the white gyoza is very nice), eran de kebabs (a local kebab vendor we visit every Friday), the houses of our other workmates and some of the other facilities around town like the pool and the electrical stores.
and how are we going you ask? well we are doing well. Its mighty hot at the moment so we are sweating a bit but we are making our way okay. Andi is better at the language than I am, but I am getting there, it is still very hard and we only know the smallest of small amounts. Well that's all for now and we will try to write again soon.
love Evan and Andi Parker
Welcome to the Parker's Japanese expereince, chronicling our cultural adventures and misadventures as we live and work in Japan and trying to learn a little Japanese too! :)
Evan and Andi
Evan is the Boy! Andi is the Girl!
About Us
- The Parkers
- Toyama, Toyama, Japan
- We are from Adelaide, South Australia. We moved to Japan in June 2006. We are English Teachers at an English conversation school. And so far we LOVE Japan!