"What did you have for breakfast?" "The food was clean"

Back in the office today for some random office work, which no one else had the time to do....It's sucking a bit that we still haven't been placed, but the day turned out to be quite nice. Brian our trainer for the day, took us to read out exam scripts. You will know what I am on about if you did a language at school. Remember those listening exams? Where some person would speak on a tape giving you instructions or some exercise, which you would have to follow on the paper? Yeah....we were basically being that voice. So I had to practice "projecting" my voice, and speaking clearly and slowly. It was good prep for the classroom I guess.

There was a big discussion about foreign men coming to Japan and ending up staying forever because they marry a japanese woman. It kinda seems true from the sample we have studied. The majority of staff that are american/australian/english and whatever else all ended up marrying a japanese woman.....So what is their secret? We found out what type of man might go for us, apparently I would be a good farmers choice....tssssk.....

We met a lot of new people, because the newbie group started training today..which means more additions to the group! They're a great lot!
I had a really good discussion with Brian actually, and found out he was a Christian, so I have been invited to their bible study group on Thursday! Another chance to meet more people..and learn all sorts of Christian jargon in Japanese. God is chichi (dad) (but "kami" actually means God)...which I thought was pretty cool.

We also found out today that we are gonna be moving to Chiba, this coming Monday, which is an area outside of Tokyo. We are all going to live in an apartment block which is furnished already and we will still belong to the Tokyo branch. This is still temporary though, until they find an actual place to place us....aaargh. But at least we will be together..and it will be a new area to explore!

In the evening some of the newbies and me went off to find some food, and I ended up having an almost conversation with the waitress to explain that two guys were vegetarian and wanted certain foods....I was so happy that it all worked out well! check it out, 2 weeks in Japan and I am actually learning! yaaaaaay!

Right! I am going to go off and have some rice tea now!