The Week That Was

The last few days have been awesome.

I finished my training and got onto my first two shifts of real work, which went really well. Nice and smooth without any hiccups at all. I even had a 'Voice' lesson yesterday where it's just a room where people go to simply talk about anything and everything. Being a new instructor, I was drilled with a load of questions but I also threw it back to them and found out a bit more of the local area (like where some good food joints are). Fun stuff.

Yesterday I undertook a random stroll and simply kept walking til I decided to turn around. I got home about 4 hours later wishing I'd taken my camera with me. There were some places where I had some fantastic views of the surrounding mountains (Takarazuka is in kind of a valley). Having walked up one side of the river I came back down the other side. I got myself onto a reasonably busy, but narrow, road and, although there was a clear area for walkers and bike riders, decided I didn't like being under a meter from passing cars. I don't think I'll talk that part of the walk again anytime soon.
I did find the Takarazuka Onsen, but dunno if I've the gall to go in alone. Maybe one day. So... I kept on walking, finding a nice group of shops that I think will be very useful. I ended up (while still being on the other side of the river) a long way past my apartment and found myself in Sakasegawa, where I'd gone to register myself when I first got here. Wandering around a bit more, I connected a few of my mental maps and found the electronic store where I'd bought my laptop. And so I headed home from there.

Today is a day where I really don't want to do anything and so I'm not.
Something seems to be up with our net connection ever since someone got home last night. The net had been fine yesterday arvo but then just completely choked up when he got home where I rarely could get a webpage to load up. Today, I can't even connect to the router (which is in one of my flatmate's rooms) and so am leeching an unsecured wireless connection one of the other apartments has. It has a really poor connection and occasionally drops out, but I can reliably do what I want online at least.

Looking forward to moving out...