[Japan]: Rainy day off, job change?, NHK monsters and more~
Hey everybody,
hope you're doing all fine?
Well, as you might have guessed it's my day off today, thus the entry (^^')
It's raining like crazy right now, but a few days ago we had quite a lot of snow (although I live ALMOST in Kyushu!) *sigh* Seems like the snow is REALLY following me ;____;
It looked beautiful, but it was REALLY difficult to ride a bycicle in that kind of snow. Luckily it's gone now.
Some photos:
That was Sunday morning before I had to go to work (yepp, on a Sunday *sigh*)
Guh, snow everywhere! Well ... I'm used to way more snow anyway, but I thought by coming to Japan I've escaped TEH SNOW finally ;o; ....
And one more.
It's still better than that heavy rain right now, though.
I need to buy a good laundry rack which I can use inside, really! Plus my old one for outside just broke completely today ;o; *sigh*
When I came home from work yesterday, I had a "nice" note from NHK in my mailbox, saying THAT THEY WILL COME AGAAAAAAIN~ *sigh*
Usually I'm not home when they come anyway, but they're really persistent! The first NHK guy came 2 days right after I moved in! HELOOOHOOOO???!!! .....
I didn't know that stupid fee collecting exists in Japan, too, until then. We do have it in Germany, it's called GEZ and just as stupid.
Basically NHK wants you to pay monthly fees for having a TV or radio - even if you never use the TV or never watch NHK, that doesn't matter.
I just always tell them in English (pretending not to understand Japanese at all) - that I don't have a tv. Usually they leave after a while, but they're REALLY persistent!!!
And just an hour ago or so they were here again!!! Thanks to the note they left I knew they were coming one of these days, so I'm using headphones right now XDDD They can't hear any noise coming out of my apartment this way.
But they were REALLY crazy!!! Usually it's one person only, but today's person was ringing my bell AGAIN AND AGAIN and knocking heavily on my door!! It was really scary!!! I don't know what's up with that, that's SO not-Japanese, right?
Why would they do that? They have to conclude that I'm not at home DURING THE WEEK in the afternoon anyway, why knocking on my door and ringing my bell so often???? I'm pretty sure they'll be back later again.
Maybe I should just open the door and tell them AGAIN that I don't have a TV (well, I do, but ...). ARGH!!!!!! This is driving me crazy.
Leave me alone ;o;
Other than that I want to post a few photos of the food we (my coworkers and me) had a while ago. It was kind of a New Year's party. Only my Japanese coworkers came, though.
It was really nice. We mainly spoke in Japanese :)
I'm too lazy to write much right now. I think food pics always say more than thousand words anyway ;)
Somebody finally tought me the right way to eat those beans. I've been an idiot!
French fries + cheese sauce = love <3
That milky, purple-ish cocktail was mine and it was super-yummie :D
We didn't go to Karaoke this time, but just had a nice evening together. Just us girls (3 Japanese and me, 1 German). It was relaxing and too much food, but ... yeah, fun ^-^
I'm thinking about quitting my current job and find a better one.
The economy in Japan is not the best right now, like almost everywhere else, too.
My work conditions suck, I'm tired, I need more time off / free time in order to stay healthy (body and mind) and in order to have more time to do what I came here for = learn more about Japan, travel, study Japanese.
I don't know if I can really do it, it will be VERY difficult, because I will have to break my contract and stuff, but now is not the time to talk about this anyway.
At the moment I still don't even know if I get my work visa or not. If not, then everything is over anyway
Approximately 2-3 more weeks and I'll know x___X
Alright,
that's all for today. Time for dinner ^^
Bye~buh!!! <3
hope you're doing all fine?
Well, as you might have guessed it's my day off today, thus the entry (^^')
It's raining like crazy right now, but a few days ago we had quite a lot of snow (although I live ALMOST in Kyushu!) *sigh* Seems like the snow is REALLY following me ;____;
It looked beautiful, but it was REALLY difficult to ride a bycicle in that kind of snow. Luckily it's gone now.
Some photos:
That was Sunday morning before I had to go to work (yepp, on a Sunday *sigh*)
Guh, snow everywhere! Well ... I'm used to way more snow anyway, but I thought by coming to Japan I've escaped TEH SNOW finally ;o; ....
And one more.
It's still better than that heavy rain right now, though.
I need to buy a good laundry rack which I can use inside, really! Plus my old one for outside just broke completely today ;o; *sigh*
When I came home from work yesterday, I had a "nice" note from NHK in my mailbox, saying THAT THEY WILL COME AGAAAAAAIN~ *sigh*
Usually I'm not home when they come anyway, but they're really persistent! The first NHK guy came 2 days right after I moved in! HELOOOHOOOO???!!! .....
I didn't know that stupid fee collecting exists in Japan, too, until then. We do have it in Germany, it's called GEZ and just as stupid.
Basically NHK wants you to pay monthly fees for having a TV or radio - even if you never use the TV or never watch NHK, that doesn't matter.
I just always tell them in English (pretending not to understand Japanese at all) - that I don't have a tv. Usually they leave after a while, but they're REALLY persistent!!!
And just an hour ago or so they were here again!!! Thanks to the note they left I knew they were coming one of these days, so I'm using headphones right now XDDD They can't hear any noise coming out of my apartment this way.
But they were REALLY crazy!!! Usually it's one person only, but today's person was ringing my bell AGAIN AND AGAIN and knocking heavily on my door!! It was really scary!!! I don't know what's up with that, that's SO not-Japanese, right?
Why would they do that? They have to conclude that I'm not at home DURING THE WEEK in the afternoon anyway, why knocking on my door and ringing my bell so often???? I'm pretty sure they'll be back later again.
Maybe I should just open the door and tell them AGAIN that I don't have a TV (well, I do, but ...). ARGH!!!!!! This is driving me crazy.
Leave me alone ;o;
Other than that I want to post a few photos of the food we (my coworkers and me) had a while ago. It was kind of a New Year's party. Only my Japanese coworkers came, though.
It was really nice. We mainly spoke in Japanese :)
I'm too lazy to write much right now. I think food pics always say more than thousand words anyway ;)
Somebody finally tought me the right way to eat those beans. I've been an idiot!
French fries + cheese sauce = love <3
That milky, purple-ish cocktail was mine and it was super-yummie :D
We didn't go to Karaoke this time, but just had a nice evening together. Just us girls (3 Japanese and me, 1 German). It was relaxing and too much food, but ... yeah, fun ^-^
I'm thinking about quitting my current job and find a better one.
The economy in Japan is not the best right now, like almost everywhere else, too.
My work conditions suck, I'm tired, I need more time off / free time in order to stay healthy (body and mind) and in order to have more time to do what I came here for = learn more about Japan, travel, study Japanese.
I don't know if I can really do it, it will be VERY difficult, because I will have to break my contract and stuff, but now is not the time to talk about this anyway.
At the moment I still don't even know if I get my work visa or not. If not, then everything is over anyway
Approximately 2-3 more weeks and I'll know x___X
Alright,
that's all for today. Time for dinner ^^
Bye~buh!!! <3