besides our 3 housing buildings we have....a conference room with tables and chairs. we had our orientation on the first day in there. we have a studio hallway. it has 5 rooms made for dancing with mirrored walls and a piano. and one sound room with drums, a piano, and other instruments. we can reserve a room to ourselves whenever we want. several of the people here who are talented dancers rent out the room, lets say every tuesday night at 9 or something and they teach a free dance class to whoever wants to come. which is really helpful, because its nearby, you meet new people, and its a different style almost every class. we also have a laundry room. it costs 100 yen to do a load in a washer or dryer. so with three loads of laundry its about 600 yen a week. the laundry room also has irons available to us. here's a picture...
now, for my room. i'm not going to post pictures of the inside yet, because i haven't put in my furniture yet. the girl living next door to me leaves from her contract next week, and is giving me all of her furniture for free. so until then my house is kind of empty. but you can see the outside! here's my view from my front door. i'm quite a few floors up so i can see pretty far.....
to the left.
directly forward. please notice that across the street from me is a babies 'r' us. soooo completely random. and its a HUGE one too. weird. and if you look just past the buildings you'll see the pacific ocean. we're really close to the shore.
to the right. you can see the pacific ocean at the end on this side too.
my hallway. just for kicks.
the view from across the street.
okay i'm really excited about this....
firstly, my door was decorated when i arrived by someone on the old cast.
secondly, i don't have a key to my house. instead i have a white plastic card that it scan over a screen next to my front door and it unlocks everything...
what's even better is that when i walk through the door i put the "key" into a pocket on the wall and it turns all my power on. so when i leave the house i take it with me and it turns off all my power. which is great, because that way they save energy. and when i get home all the lights turn on as i left them. i have my main light that dims so if i leave it dimmed it wont reset. it'll stay dimmed. (which sounds silly but i love it) and if i leave music playing on my laptop when i leave i can come back and push play and it will continue the song. its kind of fantastic. I'm basically amazed everyday when i come home. haha.
E-Village is closed off to the public for safety reasons, so we use our cards and scan them at security to get the sliding glass doors to open. i admittedly feel really important when i scan my card and the doors move out of my way. haha. yah...i'm a dork.
so thats the basics of E-Village. i pretty much love it here. paul, our supervisor, which is like a landlord i guess, is here almost everyday in the down stairs office and he's absolutely adorable! and he totally helps everyone with whatever they need. i definitely bought an alarm clock and the instructions were in japanese. so i took it to paul and he set it up for me. and he saw me at the grocery store while i was trying to communicate with one of the employees about soy sauce and he spent like 10 minutes trying to help me find everything i needed. he's just amazing. except he doesn't like it when i invite myself to hug him. i think its a "i'm your supervisor" thing. but whatever. mkay well its past 12 over here so i'm going to bed. i have a super busy day tomorrow. i'm going into the city to buy some things for my home. by the way my new thing is to name everything i own. and my new home is named shawna......cuz i miss her a lot. so i guess i'm surrounded by my best friend. its comforting. goodnight everyone! well, i guess good morning since its like 8 am for you. haha. sayonara!
shanell
i guess i'm gonna keep doing this...
japanese phrase of the day: sumimasen
it means excuse me, or i'm sorry. besides thank you, its the 2nd most used word in my vocab right now. you say it whenever you're moving around people. like in trains or in stores. but you say it like 10 times as often as we actually use excuse me in the US. oh! and its nice to bow a little bit when you say it. which i over use, because it excites me.
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<3 aww i love you..this is probably going to sound really weird, but i like to wear my white payless slip on shoes cause it makes me think of you because you wore them every single day of your life while you were out here :) i miss you & love you bestie!
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