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Opening a Japanese CD, Part 1

I purchased a CD by the Blue Hearts at a music slash movie slash video game store in Kakuda, Japan while visiting a friend and fellow ALT. We decided to film me opening the CD as a study on cultural differences, but things quickly took a turn for the sinister.

Cow!

Jetting around Marumori, in Miyagi prefecture, with a friend and fellow ALT, he glanced out the window as we drove past a dilapidated looking building. “Was that a cow?” he said. So of course we had to go back and check.

Cow!

Apartment Tour, Supplemental

I posted a short update regarding my apartment and my preparations for the long Iwate winter.

Apartment Tour, Supplemental

The Full-On Multimedia Experience

So I took some video of my apartment in Iwate prefecture back when I first moved in, and have recently uploaded it onto Youtube. Hope they are enjoyable, or at least interesting.

A Tour of my Japanese Apartment, Part 1
A Tour of my Japanese Apartment, Part 2

Overall it is a very nice place, and I appreciate it even more so now that I have seen some of the holes the other teachers with my company have been given. Still no refrigerator, though; I guess in about a month if I need something refrigerated I will be able to just stick it outside in the snow.