December 7-14 This week in pictures

Yo. Last Saturday morning was the Sendai kid's day and I volunteered to play with little kids. We played games and then decorated a cake.... with chocolate covered pretzels and other wonders. Later that night, I also volunteered for a "talking party." Its 2000yen for Japanese people, and if you speak English... its free. All you can drink/eat.

I'm a real humanitarian, I know.

The boys cake
The girls cake
The kids beating up Santa
Winners at the talking party
Jozenji lit up for Christmas

Last night(Friday) was my 忘年会 or "Forget the Year Party." Lots of fun, my teachers are incredibly nice people.
Teachers playing a game
Yoshida sensei leading the game
AWWWWWWWWW
KUMAZAWA BANZAI!
Old school Nissan Skyline
Hi, I'm Tim. I'm a cheeseburger-holic

Randoms

hi

I'm too lazy to make a real post, but I am alive. - Tim

Randoms

These photos date from July 28th - October(approx). Theres a lot of random stuff from before the blog was made, so I figured I'd drop a bunch of photos at once.

Tokyo subway

Tokyo open air fish market



Shinjuku

Mos Burger

First view of Sendai

Eagles are the local professional baseball team

hahaha

First view from my apartment




Festival

Atago Shrine





River by my apartment



Student artwork on worksheet

Cell phone photo dump

So I had a productive day today. I went to the Immigration office to get my multiple reentry permit. Sometimes, things in this country don't make sense to my little foreign mind.

For instance. It costs 6,000yen($60) for the permit. Fine. But can you buy it at the government Immigration office? Nope.

You have to go over here. Its a Tabaco shop across the street. I thought I went to the wrong place because the place was filled with boxes stacked four feet high and no counter or register anywhere to speak of.

And then after you give them the money, what do they give you?



A stamp in a bag. I was worried it would fly away. Then you have to go back, and go through more process. Thankfully though it wasn't crowded, otherwise this would've made me angry.




However, it is becoming Fall here in Sendai. I LOVE LOVE LOVE fall. It is my favorite season. The Japanese are OBSESSED with seasons. At first I thought it was pretty ridiculous, but its kind of hard not to catch the fever.


Sendai has a lot of statues.




Some dude. Looking majestic.



The King.
What'd you do today? -Oh nothing, just hung out with Date!



He even posed for a picture. He was a good sport about it.




haha somebody pushed the boy. It says Don't Enter... basically.





以上です。