Six Weeks in Japan

The title kind of says it all.  I've been in Japan for 6 weeks and have finally started to feel settled.  Hannah is gone for good, I've moved rooms and cleaned some more of the house (I scrubbed kitchen cupboards today).  I got a few odds and ends for the house today (a bathmat, frying pan, wall-pocket organizer, a knife sharpener) and got a new top from Uniqlo that was on sale.  Uniqlo is like Japanese Old Navy, cheap but actually decent quality.  It's actually chilly today, and I was tempted to buy a hoody because they are soo nice and soft but I will wait until fall starts in earnest since I probably won't actually get to wear it for a few weeks.  Andrew says in -1 in Edmonton which blows my mind.  It's still September!  WTF? 

Mom hasn't received anything from Cara yet which worries me.  Chris was supposed to get my last check and deposit it for me but they said they sent it to Ontario.  I hope that money hasn't gone missing because that was a whole pay period and vacation pay.  I wonder who he talked to.  Hopefully it will be sorted out and I'll get that money.  It'll be hard for me to do something about it from Japan if it got lost or something. 

I feel like I had something more to say.  Not something more interesting because its been rather mundane this past week, but at least I thought I had more to say.  I had my 3 week observation 2 weeks late, on Monday.  It was fine, Simon said I'm doing great and the students really like me.  :D  That's good to hear.  I've made it half way through probation without being late or absent and if my obs are that good, there shouldn't be any reason for them to extend it.  Right on track!  We have our Welcome Party this Sunday at an izakaya in Kashiwa: 2500Y for nomihodai (all you can drink).  I don't know who all is going, besides us new folks, but it should be fun.  It doesn't start til 8pm, so I should have a chance to go home and change I finish at 6.  I'll have to remember to get Nikki to bring her camera so we can remember our drunken escapades.