Hello and Welcome from Yokohama

Hi everyone! Well I finally got something up.

First, I would like to thank you for visiting this page. It's not what I had in mind initially, but it will have to do. I need to start posting stuff now before I get overwhelmed. Second, I'm going to apologize for any grammatical errors anyone finds on here in the future or even in this first post. I will try to catch errors if I can but I'm not gonna go over this like a term paper.

Alright, now that's out of the way on to the good stuff...Japan. It's been great so far. Of course it's been hectic getting situated and figuring out what I need to do to get started, but I've already met some fantastic, very kind people.

The first couple of days were not very exciting in terms of activities. Just the thought of being out here was crazy and amazing at the same time, the company I work for didn't have me do anything except get a place to live and I just accepted the first place they recommend. No it's not the greatest place, but it will do until I get paid. I did a little walking around, a lot of pachinko (gambling game). Didn't venture too far though 'cause I didn't have a guide and couldn't speak enough Japanese to save my life. So I was chillin' in the hotel room quite a bit until my friend Rickey (some of you know him as Rickey Japan) showed up at the hotel. He took me out for my first authentic Japanese dinner in Japan. He also gave me a nice little "point-and-speak" phrase book to practice my Japanese when I'm out and about.

The next week was training. Long days of learning how to teach the kids. All in all pretty easy. Basically be active with the kids.

On April 2nd we had an opening ceremony for the board of education. Here I met the two Japanese teachers I'll be teaching with in the schools. A guy and a girl, both seem really cool. We talked about my schedule and general information. I will teach at two schools alternating every two weeks. Both are fairly close to my house so that's a good thing.

April 5th was my first day of school. For the first week we don't have anything but opening ceremonies and activities so no teaching. YEAH!! Seems like a great school. The teachers are very friendly and it doesn't seem like there will be any problems getting along with them. The kids are great too. Many have come up to talk to me, mostly just hello 'cause that's all they know. And it sounds more like hallow, whatever at least they are talking to me. Some of them call me Tiger Woods. Hahaha. I don't look anything like him, but it makes them laugh so it's ok.

Well, that's it for the post. I could easily go on typing about all the stuff that has happened, but I'm gonna try and get this page together and post at least one picture. Hope everyone is doing well.

Later.