Day 12 (Day 12 - My foreign Card and Car/Meeting the other Foreigners) - March 31, 2008

Day 12 - My foreign Card and Car/Meeting the other Foreigners

Ok so my IC (Independent contractor - that shows us around) came for me at the hotel and let me signed up for my Gygin card (Alien registration card - that all foreigners need to anything) at the city office. I had to take a photo for it.

I remembered back at the hotel in Narita where I had to be dodging police because I forget my passport in the hotel room :)

He also brought me to open a posal account, in Japan there is bank account and there is postal account that you can get money through. He also made me post my letter to get my cell phone from soft bank. I also went to look at the car I was supposed to be getting (very tiny) but the tinyer it is...the cheaper it is to maintain in Japan.

Another Assistant Language teacher (ALT) in the area called me and said we could hook up with some more language teachers in the evening. so we hooked up and I met about 8 other language teachers, 2 of which were females. They were all cool people and the guys are game heads like myself :) Luckily again, one of them live on the same apartment complex as I do (bwoy mi a tell yuh God good). So we all chatted and ate and had fun. The guy who is on the same apartment complex as I am said he doesn't know the schools he will be at either and he also starts working 

on Friday so I am not feeling so bad again :) I also remembered from our training that I should not wear COLOGNE to school or anything too strong or you can get complained about... the guy that was leading that session said in 4 years...he got 4 complaints about strong cologne and 1 about bad smelling ?????? WHAT!!!!!! The guys also told me that they used Jamaica as an example about BAD timing (do you see that we have a reputation around the world) They have it in books that when Japan say 8:00 they mean 7:45 but in Jamaica 8:00 means 9:00 and thereafter. They said the same thing for Jamaica and Latin America.

After the eating some Japanese people called over one of the ALTs and we were chatting...And being the only black man in town they asked where I am from...When he heard Jamaica he said "aaaaaaah Jamaica....movie movie .....cool Runnings" "Cool Runnings good movie".

Any way I'm moving into my apartment today without internet so I don't know when I will be able to update this for now. Ohh and the person is possibly on their way now while I'm still writing this blog and I don't even have a bath yet but anyway no need to rush as they won't care and won't smell any cologne :) just kidding mi gone go baid now....