Picture time.

I now have internet at my apartment, so without furthur ado, here are some pictures i've taken thus far.

These first two are just a couple of pictures I took during a sunset. It's my city, Tsuchiura, as seen from one of its many bridges.



These are some of the boys from my school, yon-chu junior high school, practicing for the 'sports festival.' By sports, though, they don't mean tennis or soccer or something. They're these kind of weird, or different, exercise routines and marches and stuff like that. This is called "tumbling" and requires a lot of strength and patience. I learned a new phrase, "gaban suru" while watching these kids. It basically means "endure without saying anything about pain" or something like that. Might I add that it's hot as shit over here. The sun is relentless, and I have a tan that would make any porn star jealous. Just to add to the endurance these kids have- pretty impressive shit.



The rest of these are from my apartment. This is my main room. Where I sleep (on the floor), watch tv, listen to music from my computer, eat cereal, get dressed, etc.


Here's the kitchen/washing machine which leads to....

the shower/bath room



this is the toilet room...separate from the shower and bathing room, because that would be unclean.

view from the front door

my apartment from the outside looks like a meat locker

and finally...the epic view from my backyard.


So there you have it...my home for the next 7 months...hope you like the tour...on a side note, i love getting comments, so please leave theme...i just changed my blog settings so anyone can leave comments, just let me know who you are in the post...word...later
-ryan