Soon homeless? :p
Just one week of company-paid hotel left, and the next place to stay in is still not clearly known. What happened this week? Hmm.
- Monday: Initial day at work.
- Tuesday: Day off (spring equinox day), spent mostly wondering about apartment, and
went to have a nice walk in Mogusaen park watching plum blossoms (not quite at full bloom yet). After that, wandered around town.
- Wed-Fri: Work. Not much to tell. One fairly nasty TV program though, quiz where contestant needed to guess answers to quiz when running on a mat, with constantly faster and faster speed, and if too slow -> drop to pool, and _3_ slow-motion replays of the same 'noooo.. splash!'. I watched it about 15min, all contestants wound up in the pool. :p
- Sat: Amusing TV program in the morning: 4 'idiotic' Finnish sports, only one of which did not exist, and contestants needed to figure out which one it was. Much to my surprise they DID guess it correctly. Anyway, spent Saturday looking through the apartment alternatives, both locally (speaking in japanese with a local agent) as well as on the internet (various sites) as well as bit remotely (went to see foreigner-oriented rental agency in shin-nakano). Still no luck, although visited interesting-looking new building with fairly high rent.
- Sun: In the morning went again to local agent, and found out that the 'cheap' apartment in the new building was taken, but some more expensive ones (=higher up the highrise building) were still available. I said 'ok, lets do this.' After that, I spent afternoon in Tokyo Anime Fair, which was incredibly fun (and tiring). The rental agent attempted to contact me 3 times, I called her only once and resolved (more or less) that issue. Still, the last call I left unanswered as it _is_ my day off after all. I hope I still have the apartment available tomorrow..
Oh well. Time to head to hotel, some evening snack and then off to bed :)
- Monday: Initial day at work.
- Tuesday: Day off (spring equinox day), spent mostly wondering about apartment, and
went to have a nice walk in Mogusaen park watching plum blossoms (not quite at full bloom yet). After that, wandered around town.
- Wed-Fri: Work. Not much to tell. One fairly nasty TV program though, quiz where contestant needed to guess answers to quiz when running on a mat, with constantly faster and faster speed, and if too slow -> drop to pool, and _3_ slow-motion replays of the same 'noooo.. splash!'. I watched it about 15min, all contestants wound up in the pool. :p
- Sat: Amusing TV program in the morning: 4 'idiotic' Finnish sports, only one of which did not exist, and contestants needed to figure out which one it was. Much to my surprise they DID guess it correctly. Anyway, spent Saturday looking through the apartment alternatives, both locally (speaking in japanese with a local agent) as well as on the internet (various sites) as well as bit remotely (went to see foreigner-oriented rental agency in shin-nakano). Still no luck, although visited interesting-looking new building with fairly high rent.
- Sun: In the morning went again to local agent, and found out that the 'cheap' apartment in the new building was taken, but some more expensive ones (=higher up the highrise building) were still available. I said 'ok, lets do this.' After that, I spent afternoon in Tokyo Anime Fair, which was incredibly fun (and tiring). The rental agent attempted to contact me 3 times, I called her only once and resolved (more or less) that issue. Still, the last call I left unanswered as it _is_ my day off after all. I hope I still have the apartment available tomorrow..
Oh well. Time to head to hotel, some evening snack and then off to bed :)
posted by Wanderer at 13:13
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