You've got a lot of explaining to do, young lady

Okay, I haven't been around much, it's a fact. But, can you blame me? I'm in Japan! Living, breathing, sleeping in, eating, and drinking in Japan. Not much has really been going on lately though although this week school will start to get interesting since I'll actually start going to school. So the Tokyo orientation was mildly talked about before - I think the only thing I'd like to add is that Tokyo is gorgeous at night. Hopefully I'll be able to get some pictures up soon of the city since we wandered around the last night we were there. We were only there three nights and had to leave very early on Wednesday morning for our respective areas.
So wednesday we got on the bus and headed off to greet our supervisors (in my case my supervisor is still on her honeymoon so I met a different English teacher at my school). It was weird to be greeted in English as soon as we got off the bus too because we had been told to do our introductions in Japanese but it's cool - nice to know that I'll have someone I can really converse with and be understood by.
So wednesday I spent running around with my supervisor/notreallysupervisor making sure that I registered as a foreign worker and the next day we got our bank stuff. Of course I got the ridiculously cute bank card with all these weird animated animals on it. I had to. IT WAS MEANT TO BE. Then after that Bob and I have been more or less just getting used to our homes. We realized soon enough that we desperately needed a few items.. like bath towels... since there were none... and we didn't realize it until Bob got out of his shower and needed to use the kitchen hand towels. Oops!
Anyway, literally that has been our lives lately. We've been running around to various coffee shops and electronics shops (we both have cell phones now and I also have an electronic dictionary so I don't have to tell Bob that the sign is for some sort of fried food..... would have been nice to know that that fried food was fried fish paste Gross!!!).
Hope to give a better (and far more interesting) update later this week.