Friday, November 9, 2012

6 weeks in the Land of the Rising Sun

I am finally starting to feel a like I am settling into life here in Japan. I moved into my apartment about 2 weeks ago and am working on making it feel homey and reflect my personality. I have been a shopping maniac buying everything from a bed and couch to tv, computer, curtains, pots and pans...pretty much everything one needs to make a home a home. Here are some pictures a couple days after I moved in with all the government loaner furniture; I will post more once I get the furniture I purchased delivered and have all my stuff from storage in early to mid-December.
My living room

From my living room looking towards the dining room

My tatami room, it has a floor made of tatami mats and is great to do yoga on

My temporary bedroom until the bed I purchased arrived. If you come visit me, this will be your room

My kitchen

My pantry/oven area

The shower room

My fabulous toilet room complete with a heated toilet seat, white noise, puffs of air and spritzes of water


The master bedroom

The office/storage room

My genkan entryway with ample built-in show storage
My favorite thing...the view

Beside moving into my apartment, I have been adventuring and exploring. I went to a pottery studio and made this bowl. I will pick it up tomorrow.
My bowl

We picked purple sweet potatoes with the family that runs the pottery studio

The sweet potatoes we just picked made into Daigakuimo....glazed sweet potatoes. They are oishi!
Sasebo hosted a national dance competition and I was able to see a number of groups perform. They danced all over town and the performers ranged from toddlers to adults. It was memorizing to watch them perform!
Yokosai Dance Competition

I also went on a trip south a couple hours to Shimabasa and Obama. In Shimabasa, I went on a dolphin watching trip and in Obama I visited the longest foot onsen (spa) in Japan. It was a great day trip and I loved seeing some landscape and scenery.
My fashionable Japanese life jacket

A mama and baby dolphin

The pod of dolphins right next to our boat.
A few things I have lined up for the next few weeks are making a glass Ornament, going to a fire festival, attending a Sumo competition and more!

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