CHAOS!

Hello cyber land!

So, a week to go before we leave! We have just spent the weekend with Ev's family and his brother, who flew out this morning at 6 am! ouch. it was pretty emotional, everyone really misses him. He is certaininly a highly entertaining fellow!

As for me, one of the highlights of my weekend was being the star attraction of my 4 year old step-neice-in-law's birthday party! I don't remember learing how to do balloon animals, but there you go, i can do a dog, a giraffe (dog with a longer neck and shorter body) and elephant (after about 10 tries, and one popped balloon). Another highlight was playing 1970's DJ! Evan's step dad cleaned the record player and let me play DJ! they had 2 BeeGees greatest hits and not one of their disco classics! but some stellar stuff from bread!

All of this is stalling! the house is in chaos and i'm tired, and excited and nervous and lazy and a million things at once, Evan is wonderful and patient and persistant and pays attention to details (everything i am not, and don't do!)

The countdown has begun!

NOW it's time to panic!!! :)

We Know Where we are going!

Okay, so Evan won. We are going to be living in the Toyama prefecture, in a town called Takaoka. It's on the Japan sea, the Korean side, and looks like it's a fairly smallish place, and it's not too far from Nagano. Remember them, that's right the winter olympics, to winter man got his way. BUT they have a fireworks festival and I love anything shiny!!!

We have the floor plan of our house and it looks like we will be on the 5th floor, and have two bedrooms and an open living area. We seem to have more storage space than presently, despite the smaller size of the apartment.

More as it happens!

Thanks for stopping by!

The Start of a New Adventure

Hello out there! This is,hopefully, the first of many postings that will chronicle the adventures of Evan and Andrea as they move to Japan, try being grown ups, and learn to love sushi (just kidding, that will never happen).

So far I am in the process of packing down the house into boxes, while Evan finishes up at work. The house just gets more and more chaotic, but we are getting alternately excited and panicky!! But it is going to be fun, i think.

We will be teaching for a company called Nova, apparently one of the bigger companies in Japan. We will be flying into Osaka, which means that we will be assigned somewhere from Osaka or west from there. Which is good! I am a summer person, i like the sun and heat and not having to carry extra clothing. The south will be warmer! Evan is a winter person, he wears t shirts when it's 14 C! and he doens't have any fat to keep him warm! that's not fair! Anyway, Evan being a winter person i think he would have preferred to be somewhere up north in the snow fields! but we are going to be in the warm. As far as location goes, at present i am torn between wanting to stay in Osaka, and wanting to have to go somewhere else so we can ride the shinkansen (bullet train!).

Well that's all for now, more as we find out...

Stay Class Planet Earth!!