Sunday in Shimogo

Today has been a pretty lazy day although we have managed to do a few things in and out of the house. I woke up fairly late today (as usual) and then we drove to an onsen (a Japanese hot spring) for a bath in a town called Tadami. I took the digital camera with me in the hope that I might be able to transfer a picture onto this blog. It seems that I have been successful!!!!

Clara spent the afternoon on the computer looking at the CBBC website. She learns so much English from these kinds of websites and manages to have fun at the same time.

Another technology boundary that we have broken through is video telephone calls to Scotland. We're registered with AIM Messenger and this lets us see and talk to my parents in Scotland - for NO COST whatsoever. Isn't technology a wonderful thing!!!!!

Shimogo

Now I know how to work this blog (sort of) I think it's time to give you some information on where we're living at the moment. We live in a town called Shimogo which is in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. Shimogo is about 4 hours from Tokyo on the train and has an official population of 8,000 (although it feels much less). The symbol above is the town emblem of Shimogo - every town seems to have one and you can see it at various locations around the town.

We'll all (Yuki, Clara and I) move down to Tokyo in July which means I need to find a new job. I don't plan to do anymore teaching and will hopefully find some kind of banking job. Yuki is currently working in a cartography office at the moment and Clara is going to the local nursery school.

We've now been in Shimogo for two and a half years and we'll be ready for a new challenge in July 2006.

If you have any questions about what we're up to in Japan, please ask me through the comments tab or e-mail me by clicking on the envelope icon.

Getting Started

Right - I seem to be making some progress on setting up this blog. Not quite sure what I'll write but hopefully it won't be too boring. I'll try and add some photos from my digital camera soon (once I've figured out how that's done).