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I'm here and more or less settled in.
The unpacking is running into hitches -- but this is a whole separate topic that I am constantly venting about to anyone who will listen.
I'm feeling very ambivalent at the moment. There have been no oh my god I'm so glad I came moments, but sometimes things are good, and at other points I just really miss Yokohama. It has been very downcast ever since I got here, though, and I suspect that this is a contributing factor.
I've only had two work days, but the really weird thing here is that although they talk your ears off about how being a public employee means you have to live up to people's trust and be responsible YADDA YADDA YADDA that doesn't mean that public employees use their time efficiently. At all.
For example, on the first day none of my supervisors gave me any work (or direction) at all..... they just spent some time in the morning talking to me about my contract and not to do things that would get me fired. I don't know what they expected me to be doing during all of that downtime, but... yeah. It seems so silly.
I was much more awake my second day, but still had minimal work. I imagine they are too busy with their own things to give it much thought but -- I am genuinely curious about what they expect me to be doing!
Notes on life here--
☂ The bad:
･ I have no stove. I have to cook with a hot plate... and very very little space.
･ Unpacking situation/all the baggage my predecessor left me.
･ Baths are less accessible :(
･ Not many stores (or people) here, and things would be easier with a car.
･ My faucets leak and I don't know how to make it stop.
･ I don't know how to turn the fan in my bathroom off.
･ My apartment complex is inferior in many ways to all the ones I see around it...
☆ Good things:
･ There are no bugs (yet).
･ I live close to a big group of ALTs, and I run into them a lot randomly.
･ These boys walk me places when I'm lost!
･ My division at work has a loot planned for this year.
･ I can air condition my room to my heart's content.
･ I have a bed(-like object).
The negatives win out now if I really think hard about things but we'll see where I am in a year.
I still can't see myself staying here -- it's not a place to be young -- but we'll see.
The unpacking is running into hitches -- but this is a whole separate topic that I am constantly venting about to anyone who will listen.
I'm feeling very ambivalent at the moment. There have been no oh my god I'm so glad I came moments, but sometimes things are good, and at other points I just really miss Yokohama. It has been very downcast ever since I got here, though, and I suspect that this is a contributing factor.
I've only had two work days, but the really weird thing here is that although they talk your ears off about how being a public employee means you have to live up to people's trust and be responsible YADDA YADDA YADDA that doesn't mean that public employees use their time efficiently. At all.
For example, on the first day none of my supervisors gave me any work (or direction) at all..... they just spent some time in the morning talking to me about my contract and not to do things that would get me fired. I don't know what they expected me to be doing during all of that downtime, but... yeah. It seems so silly.
I was much more awake my second day, but still had minimal work. I imagine they are too busy with their own things to give it much thought but -- I am genuinely curious about what they expect me to be doing!
Notes on life here--
☂ The bad:
･ I have no stove. I have to cook with a hot plate... and very very little space.
･ Unpacking situation/all the baggage my predecessor left me.
･ Baths are less accessible :(
･ Not many stores (or people) here, and things would be easier with a car.
･ My faucets leak and I don't know how to make it stop.
･ I don't know how to turn the fan in my bathroom off.
･ My apartment complex is inferior in many ways to all the ones I see around it...
☆ Good things:
･ There are no bugs (yet).
･ I live close to a big group of ALTs, and I run into them a lot randomly.
･ These boys walk me places when I'm lost!
･ My division at work has a loot planned for this year.
･ I can air condition my room to my heart's content.
･ I have a bed(-like object).
The negatives win out now if I really think hard about things but we'll see where I am in a year.
I still can't see myself staying here -- it's not a place to be young -- but we'll see.