Keitaidenwa

Keitaidenwa 携帯電話 is the name of a mobile telephone and yes we finally managed to get one.... With a subscription for a year costing 3000 yen (about 23 euro) per month with all modcons installed (radio, camera, e-mail, internet and easy download of pornpictures ....very popular here) and no costs for the phone itself, we all thought it be an absolute bargain. Gijs did most of the translating in the AU store and we're totally greatful for that.
You can now email me at : paulmjager@ezweb.ne.jp or
call +81 9082961662
Needless to see that it won't accept large amounts of data.

One of the major problems in Japan is garbage and how to dispose of it. Since the Japanese love to wrap anything twice or three times wit a lot of plastic and like to eat their meals with hashi, wooden chopsticks, every meal or snack with new ones, you can imagine the problem.
Upon arriving here we received an informationsheet (see picture) with all the relevant ways of how to dispose of your rubbish, separating them into combustable, noncombustable etc. And they are very strict about it. Heavy fines are placed if you do not comply.


By the way you can enlarge the pictures just by clicking on them.

Good news....we can move out of the monastery and into our new rooms tomorrow, friday the 14th. We were all very excited about it. We will need to pack our stuff tonight, hoist it downstairs and tomorrow morning people from the studentcentre will pick it up by car and take it over there...we just need to walk there after the lectures. We will have a washingmachine, microwave, own kitchen and most of all our own private space...so people can do all their human thingies within the confines of their own room.
Pictures of my new found heaven will be published a.s.a.p.