Apartment Tour

The long-awaited tour – with bonus bathroom video! Wow!

So, I just finished cleaning for mom’s visit. This is as nice as my apartment gets, people.

Enjoy!

Note the cicadas wheezing in the background. They’re out in force today.

Tour of My Apartment – Part 1

So, I’m still working on getting the living room/bedroom and bathroom up and running, but here’s a video tour of my kitchen, complete with weird mouth breathing in the background. Did I have a cold or something?

Fourth of July

After spending a couple hours planning classes at the school and then shopping for some essentials at the grocery store, we all went down to the river to set off some fireworks.

off my porch

Out my front door - on the far right is Mt Miyogi

Incidentally, today was a gorgeous day, and I actually saw the sky for most of it.  The mountains around Tomioka were more visible than recently, but I know this is just a tease before the real summer weather starts up in July.

We found a nice spot with a little pavilion already set up, and it started pouring about 15 minutes after we got there.

From my window…

I can hear an uguisu (see previous post), hear people working in their gardens, and on a clear day (so I hear), see the mountains (and an active volcano).