My first graduation in Japan

Follow this link for photos from after the graduation ceremony for Hokusho Nishi High School!

http://ojikaenglish.blogspot.com/2009/03/hokusho-nishi-graduation-photos.html

Birthday Photos

I spent my birthday with a few friends from the island at the bar/restaurant down the street from my old apartment. It was a great time with lots of good food! After eating, we all walked over to the "Melody Box" and sang karaoke!

On the Wednesday after, there was another small gathering at my place... supposedly for an english class that had to be rescheduled... but it was actually a surprise party. Unfortunately for them the surprise was leaked and I found out about it!

Finally, a few pictures!

Here is a slideshow from the photo album showing some of the pictures I took of the new house. You can see that they start out with the floor removed and the old tatami pulled out. The house sat like this for about three days while things dried out. Then the new tatami went in and you should be able to see a little bit of how things looked after that process was done. Unfortunately I only have three "after" photos of the place so far. I guess I need to take a few more. The next step for the house is to replace the paper on the sliding shoji doors and get some Japanese style curtains to separate the rooms and add some color. I'm also working on the garden outside.