TheManInJapan

Old Room New Room

Hey, I moved, as per this post. I moved into Create Shared House Kumegawa, room A-5. It’s a “guest house”, which means it’s sortof a small apartment building where everyone shares a kitchen and showers. So it’s kinda like a dorm, that way. But I do have a room to myself. (Guest houses sometimes have [...]

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Around town near my dorm campus thing

Here’s a couple of vids surveying the area right outside my dorm campus thing in Kodaira, Tokyo. It’s really shaky, so maybe I’ll post some still pics of the same places.

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My Building (at my dorm campus thing)

I live at the Hitotsubashi International Village (aka my dorm campus thing), in Building C, room 402. This is a video about Building C, which is pretty typical of the other buildings. (One thing I forgot to mention: We have a janitor/maid service that takes out the trash and does some basic cleaning of the [...]

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Surprise! I’m homeless. (Not really. But I do have to move)

Today we’re going to learn a lesson in flexibility, preparedness, and monkeying around with the rules. Early this afternoon, I got a phone call from “The Plaza”, which is the main office at my dorm campus thing. They informed me that some guy from Australia will be taking my room on October 1st, and they’d [...]

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My dorm campus thing

As I’ve mentioned before, I attended Tokyo Gakugei University. But I’ve never lived at the Gakugei dorms. Instead I live about 10 minutes away (by bike), at the Hitotsubashi International Village, which is also called the Kodaira kokusai kampasu. It’s located in Kodaira, which is part of Tokyo. Train-wise, it’s near the Hitotsubashi-Gakuen train station, [...]

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My Room

This is my room at the Hitotsubashi International Village, which is in Kodaira, which is in Tokyo. More specifically, I’m in building C, room 402. I’ve even cleaned it for you. Kindof. And without further ado, this is my room. On the left is my bed. In the back you see the curtain of the [...]

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Orientation

(Note: If it sounds like I’m complaining, I’m actually not. I’m still very very glad to be here) This was last week, the day after I arrived in Japan: I’m sitting in a room with about 80 people, most of them Asian. Up at the front there’s some administrator-types setting up a powerpoint presentation; they’ll [...]

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