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I really have nothing. I think I have lost my blogging mojo and I don`t think it is coming back. I am not ready to give up yet so what is turning into my weekly obligatory post, is happening tonight.
This Sunday I am going to a BBQ. BBQ`s are few and far between here in Tokyo (Well the ones I am invited to anyway…Probably because parks don`t have BBQ`s so you have to take your own) and I can not wait. I am trying to find a Frisbee because Frisbee would be perfect for a BBQ day. I thought if I found one then I could teach the kids at work to Frisbee…Is Frisbee to much for 2, 3 and 4 year olds though? Keep in mind that only one kid in my class can catch a ball….
I am also on the hunt for sausages. Proper sausages…not the tiny little disgusting ones you see in Japanese supermarkets either…proper sausages. James thinks It will be impossible for me to get my hands on some…But I am going to try (So that I can prove him wrong).
Shun and I will have the money together to move in a couple of weeks which means that we will have to start PROPERLY searching for a place to live.
Those of you out there living in Japan. Who of you are here for the long haul? Who knows that they will be here forever, and if not forever pretty damn close to it? I have been thinking about this a lot lately…I am on the fence still I think….
We have a new girl at the preschool. Who on her first day screamed at the top of her lungs for an hour and a half or more (I had a headache…)…..She has gotten better on the other two days, slightly, although today she was just crazy. She is not quite 2 and a half yet, and since she is a first child, I don`t think putting her in an all English environment at that age when she has NEVER been in kindergarten or childcare before, is too much for her.
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Sorry - but the second thing our friend there missed (after a specific brand of jelly snakes)was sausages - he can only find hot dog type ones. He said apparantly you might be able to order special ones in to make from the butcher, but he’s yet to do it.
So if you find some - let us know! :o)
Sausages.. the best ones I know are from this site. http://www.themeatguy.jp
You can order in English off his site and he delivers to your door in a day or so. Pay the takkyubin man. We use this ALL the time. They are fantastic. Also he has meat pies from Oz and lots of things that are hard to find like polenta and cous cous.
Lots of Australian and New Zealand beef and lamb.
p.s. we have a frisbee you can borrow.. or you can just buy them at Tokyu Hands or Kiddy land. Posh ones. Ours is just the basic plastic disk that was a giveaway at an event.. so it has some company name on it.
The only sausages I saw in Japan other than the supa wieners, were these german ones that come in a bottle that were sold in a depaato in Tachikawan, I think it was Isetan or Takashimaya. Costco might have some. Although the ones T talks about sound good.
I think I know what your getting at in your remark about people staying in Japan for the long term. That’s what I noticed after I had been in Japan after quite a long time. Your social circle is always changing. My long-term friends were all Japanese, apart from canadian and english guys who married japanese chicks. Everyone else went back to their own countries after awhile. One exception is my mate Richard who will have been in Tokyo for 10yrs this year. Lulu, If you want to talk about this more e-mail me okay, I’ve got more to say but I don’t think this is the place for it.
I’ve also got some advice about work for Shun in Brisbane if you’re still considering coming back here to live together. Love, Katie xxoo
Enny- Definitely pass the link that T provided onto your friend! It looks fantastic! I am going to order some soon!
T- Thanks for the information and the email! I think I will buy a frisbee…I didn`t know you could get them at Tokyu hands but will have to check it out!
Katie- Thanks for the comments. I worry because my two closest friends are foreign, and what is to stop them packing up tomorrow and heading home. I think one of them will be here forever….or at least until he gets married, but I still worry. I have Japanese friends too, who will most likely be around forever, but they have their own lives and are busy so we sometimes don`t meet up for a month at a time.
Shun and I have talked about moving to Australia, but neither of us want to do it yet. I am happy here, and he is of course happy here. I am not sure how he would go living in Australia too. I think he would love it at first but get quite homesick after awhile.
What about you Katie? When are you coming back?
For sausages: Nissin in Azabu Juban, or Costco were the only places I found good ones. It was worth the trek though, I really don’t like the Japanese supermarket version.
I know what you mean! I know how busy Japanese people are. I had friends who sometimes only had one day off a month.
The thing I like the most about being back in Australia is that I can alternate spending time with family and friends. Also as busy as I am at the moment, I still like the generally slower pace of life over here. I like the fact that it’s okay just to relax sometimes and spend a whole weekend doing nothing.
I’m not sure when I’m coming back. Maybe for a holiday at the end of the year or early next year, money is very tight at the moment. I want to live there again, but i’m kind of hoping a few things will happen here before that happens.
Lots of Japanese people work for IBM in Brisbane…there are also a few other companies I can think of. He could even go to an English school over here if he wanted to improve his English. They teach it differently over her to the way they do at places like NOVA and ECC.