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Alien…

As of Monday I’m an official alien, and I have a card to prove it too. While the atennae are annoying in lower doorways and the silver space suit looks a bit daft, the card does mean I can leave my passport at home, which is a huge benefit as I no longer risk wrecking it or washing it or other not so good things.

Tomorrow I will be going with John (Elliot, or Big John as Masa says) to the Old Smoke, the Small-to-medium-sized Apple, the slightly breezy city, Aomori City herself. Our mission? To get me permission to drive. Assuming this permission is granted I will be legally allowed to drive the Elliot’s Subaru, which will be nice… Maybe I will post a picture of the 4 wheel drive powerhouse sometime.

Other things that have been going on, I wired up the light and fan in the Elliots new bathroom (only blowing the circuit breaker once, the earth wire and neutral wire were both green, so it was really trial and error for the most part) We then put styrofoam and fibreglass insualtion in the walls and boarded up the outside with plywood, sometime we will finish it with siding (Japanese houses don’t use brick, just plywood it seems…well, with a few 2×4s in there too) Then tonight we went and taught a bunch of nurses english, I showed them Lyles photos from the Liffey Descent (so sorry I missed it :() and some other kayak photos in an attempt to encourage talk about sports and hobbies. I also made use of the photo I took of the article Mr Ishihara found in the paper about the glorious victory to stir up some anti-England propoganda, unfortunately they saw the picture of David Beckham and all went “oooooh bekkuhammu! Daisuki!” (”oh Beckham, I really like him” mostly the girls to be fair) and it was difficult to explain why Roy Keane wasn’t playing. But I think I got the point across with many drawn maps and highlighted borders…
All in all it was good fun though.