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.

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