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Asia » Japan » Gunma February 16th 2006

Salut tout le monde, Premierement je voudrais dire que je me sens beaucoup mieux que hier. Mon corps commence a s habituer au travail a faire. A titre indicatif, voila mon horaire de travail; 7h00 - reveil 7h20 - je me rend au vestiaire 7h30 - apres avoir mit mon habit de travail (qui ressemble a un habit de gogo boy) je me rend a la cuisine principale 10h00 - fin du premier shift, on dois faire un meeting de 10 minutes avec des japonais qui parlent trop vite 15h20 - je me rend au vestiaire 15h30 - met un tablier, on prepare des centaines de soupes en production. Ensuite il faut les distrubuer dans les 4-5 salles a manger qu il y a. Le dur de la job est qu il faut sans cesse transporter ... read more

Manza...

Asia » Japan » Gunma February 15th 2006

mune

Bonjour a tous, premierement, ceux qui disent que je suis souvent online... je n ai pas toucher un ordinateur depuis　quelques　jours. Je ne peux pas vraiment parler car ici ya 2 ordinateurs et on peut seulement sen servir 3 jours dans la semaine.. donc cest plutot achalander. Bref rapidement, je suis a manza depuis 4 jours... cest l enfer ici, autant que quand j etait a tokyo je voulais passer ma vie la, ici je pense pas mal a vous au quebec.. le travail ici est extremement difficile, physiquement et mentalement puisque tout le monde quasiment ne parle que japonais. Mais bon, le monde est sympatique. Mais c est sans doute la　plus rough que jai eu de　ma vie. Mais comme Chris ma dit, je vais la garder un peu, car physiquement ca va me faire du bien, ... read more

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Asia » Japan » Gunma » Maebashi January 27th 2006

the view

Anni

i have now been here for almost 2 weeks. so i'm finding my way around a lot better. there's a busy street outside of our apartment which makes it pretty loud at night sometimes, but so far i don't need any ear plugs. last weekend i went to issasaki with graham and king (he works at the school with us and is from LA). issasaki is a town close to maebashi but has more night life. we went out for dinner at a funky little cafe which is well known for its black spaghetti. so graham got the sgaphetti and it was really black, not just a little bit black, a lot black. the noodles had even been died black by the sauce. it was a seafood spaghetti so maybe the sauce was made black with ... read more

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Asia » Japan » Gunma » Maebashi January 20th 2006

on the plane

Anni

So, I'm in Japan. getting here was fairly easy. i was on the plane for 10 hours, but it left a little late, and took longer in the air, but i finally got to narita airport. great landing, but the pilot decided to circle pretty much the whole way around the airport from where we started. i don't know why the airport was set up that way, but oh well, after 10 hours what was another 15 minutes. i then had to hop on a bus for another 4 hours out to maebashi where i could meet up with graham. my instructions for finding the bus station was walk straight. surprisingly accurate instructions. i couldn't take the shinkansen because it doesn't go by the airport, so i would have had to go into tokyo which would ... read more

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