Room with a view

Today is a glorious day for a couple of reasons.
1st: I got to talk to Paul who is back home safe and sound from Pakistan and went on to run the Amsterdam half marathon yesterday (what's your time ?)
2nd: Got to talk to Chris from London too for quite a bit, as he said with his new job (green frog recruitment agency.co.uk) he's not counting the pennies.... and
3rd: I moved in to my new room 部屋, heya, on the 5th floor (penthouse suite is what the call a top floor appartment, isn't it?) of the International student house in Nishimachi, about a twenty minutes walk from the University. The room itself is a bit small but with rearranging the furniture and accessorizing it looks absolutely fabulous. One drawback...the bathroom is as could be expected, extremely tiny and we do have to share with three guys.
A big kitchen 台所, daidokoro, is provided with oven, stove and washing machine ... the big fridge is in the livingroom...
We had to buy everything new from sheets, crockery, cutlery and chopsticks, rice cooker, iron and ironingboard to towels etc. Nothing is provided at all and there seem to be no secondhand stores around either for electrical appliances or so.

Did sod all this weekend except for shopping (essentials only) and making a photo assembly of my friends (have a look at the picture and see wether you're on it; if not mail me a small passport sized picture and I will put it up there too.)


My address here is:

Paul M. Jager
Nagasaki International Student House # 501
Nishi-machi 12 - 1
Nagasaki 852 -8043
Japan

or for those who can write Japanese :

ﾔｰｶﾞ ﾎﾟｰﾙﾏﾘｱ
長崎県　長崎市
西町　８５２－８０４３
12－1 長崎大学国際交流会館 ５０１ 五室
日本

I will show you a picture of my new abode (with all the trimmings shortly) and ofcourse the stunning views from the room.
Hope you're all well..here the weather is good and lectures are about too begin..so must dash..!!