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Day 2346 ( Back to Work!)
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Got only about 4 hours sleep after all that flying. I actually started receiving emails about work while I was in Jamaica but refused to read them simply because I was on vacation !!! I assisted with the training of about 20 persons today. I was super jet lagged so I didn't do much. But still helped out the main trainer in whatever way I could. Visited my friend after work and fell asleep swiftly.
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Day 2347 ( )
Friday, August 22, 2014
Saw 2 sets of demonstrations today from the new teachers who are joining my company in September. During summer, droves of teachers leave yearly. The only good thing is that this coincides with the time when JETs contract usually end. So there are always a few JETs in the training group. While watching the second set of demonstrations, jet lag started kicking in vigorously !!! I fought with it for a while then had to go buy an energy drink.
After work, I went to Shibuya to meet a friend of mine, then went to the Jamaican restaurant there.
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Day 2348 ( Godzilla )
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Went to the theatres today. Can't even tell the last time I've been to the theatre. Probably a year ago. So I went to watch Godzilla ! And ooooh how jet lag was smacking me left and right.
It was a bit different from the traditional Godzilla coming to destroy the city and helicopters etc trying to stop him. The talking parts had me falling asleep. But overall it was a good movie I would say. I give it a 7.5/10.
Afterwards I went to H and M in Yokohama to do some further shopping. I realize now that I actually really like shopping!! Is that bad as a male? I bought 2 pants.
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Day 2349 ( Japanese Driver's Licence Renewal)
Sunday, August 24, 2014
After returning to Japan from my 2 weeks vacation, I was greeted with this letter in all wonderful Japanese. I had not a clue as to how to decipher it. Yeah I know, it's bad. I can speak Japanese well enough but reading is an uphill challenge. luckily, its good to have some Japanese friends to call on in these times. I took pictures of the document and sent it to my friend who translated it for me. It was basically telling me that I had between now and October to renew my Japanese Driver's licence. If October passed, I would have to do over the driving test!! I had 2 options:
(1) Take some time off from work to go to the police station in my area. But I would have to pay them to mail it to me plus wait for 2 weeks to actually receive it.
(2) Travel for about 1 hour to the license center, wait a few minutes and get it today, Sunday....
Option 2 was clearly the best option, as I leave for Toyama this week and have absolutely no other time to do it. If I asked for time from work, it will affect my salary... and I already took an unpaid day off so no no no to option 1. I was even planning to go to a jazz/poetry concert thing tonight but it just didn't work out. My days in Yokohama are just crazy.
So I went to the license place, filled out some forms, did an eye test, took a photo, watched a 30 mins video and was of course falling asleep uncontrollably. And yeah I was out after about say 2 hours.
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Day 2350 ( Mandatory Health Check )
Monday, August 25, 2014
Met my friend from Uzbekistan and gave her some stuff from Jamaica. Including a cup looking similar to this one.. Not as big, but this is the closest one resembling it I could find online ....
I also did my yearly health check.... Heart, pressure, pulse rate, 3 tubes of blood (for what I don't know), eye and ear check, chest X-ray (that checks for cancer but can also give you cancer) ..... Darn I'm concerned about my radiation intake over the past month. I took 7 planes plus did this x-ray thing..... that is probably a year worth of radiation in a month.
I should get a copy of the results soon. My company should also get a copy of the results and check it, which I heard is an illegal practice in Japan by the way.
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Later in the evening, I went to Shibuya to have a chat with my Jamaican friend and an American friend from the facebook nomad.ness tribe group. He will be doing a transfer in Tokyo for a while. He is a pharmacist with a famous French company. We were having a heated debate with my Jamaican friend, who said he wanted to go back to Africa to live forever. I mean if anyone want to do that its fine.... He then said all Jamaicans are Africans, which I totally disagree with. We are mixed with all manner of races and I maintain that I am a Jamaican not an African. He maintains that he is African because he is black. I asked him where in Africa his lineage was from but he has no idea... I also asked him where in Africa would he live and he also had no answer. But healthy debate still you know....
A German guy was there listening on our conversation. Participating every now and again. We asked him if he saw himself as white, German or European. Off the bat he said German. To each his own still... Whatever you see yourself as then more power to you. I am 100% Jamaican.
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Day 2351 ()
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
I was asked yesterday to train a new employee for my company. The person already had experience teaching at the elementary school level but will be trying out the high school system now. Actually the main reason I think I was hired for this position is because I have high school teaching experience. I thought I would have to pad up the training to make it longer but actually everything that I planned to do took so much time that it all fitted. I think the training went well over all. The trainee of course had to do a brief presentation of what she learnt. It started at 9:30 am and ended at around 4 pm. I had 2 hours left at work, but absolutely nothing to do. I started falling asleep around my desk again. A combination of boredom and jet lag.
After work I went to Machida (a busy part of Tokyo)
to meet my old friend Vany (hey see I mentioned you again) and had some good yaki tori. We had a loong chat about random stuff. Was falling asleep while heading back home on both trains. I know I'm not so tired, so this was definitely jet lag.
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Day 2352 ( Sponsors persuade Bolt to run until 2017 )
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Had a meeting at work today, and if you didn't know, all my company meetings are conducted in Japanese only!! I can catch at least a good 60% of what is going on though and I ask the other staff members afterwards, just to make certain.
At lunch time, I went to the UFJ bank (the main bank in Japan) to collect a visa debit card that I applied for before heading to Jamaica.
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