Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Maximum Living

I picked up a few more details (and photos) about my living situation today thanks to quick chat online with my probably-predecessor (it's either her or the other JET at my school-to-be, but in either case I know I'll be in her apartment complex).

By bike, my most likely means of transportation (along with trains when necessary), my school is about 10 minutes away. A new "Max Value" (
I think a large food and drug store) is under construction seven minutes away, and if it isn't ready, another (perhaps smaller) store is even closer. Also, a major train station is 10 minutes away (still on the bike).

My predecessor has survived for a year in Ise with no car, just a bike. I plan to try to make that work.

Also, my predecessor offered a few photos of her apartment, which will possibly be mine along with the furnishings and a few other things (like the TV, etc.). I do know that I'm in the same complex, so my place will probably look like the one in the photos.

My predecessor started out in an older apartment which was infested with cockroaches. She fortunately got out of that situation part-way through the year, and the new place was so new that she actually had to peel the plastic cover form the toilet seat.

That's pretttty new.

So it sounds like the apartment situation, based on its newnesss and its central location, is pretty solid.








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