Summer 2014 - Okinawa, Japan [Week 5/12]

The theme of this week is new-roomie drama - YAY! My favourite stuff to deal with.

So the new roomie has been around for a week and so far I've spoken to her once, which was that first conversation we had the first time I met her. Since then all I ever see is her legs when I come back home. I know that my other roomies aren't too fond her though, and because she goes to sleep and wakes up so early she tends to disrupt our daily schedule. I understand there's the whole idea of being considerate to your roomies but when all 5 of your roomies don't go to sleep until around 3 AM in the morning and you decide to sleep at midnight and wake up at 9-10AM... I dunno, I think in this case it's her turn to be a bit more understanding of our schedule.

But that's not the point.

Summer 2014 - Okinawa, Japan [Week 4/12]

So... you know how I was supposed to get moved to the Aqua Bar? Well - it didn't happen. I got switched with the new Canadian girl that I mentioned came to my restaurant last week, and I'm still working at the restaurant. I'm not sure what the reasoning behind it was, but I'm pretty bumbed out by it because I really hate cleaning tables and from what I understand, at the bar you just make drinks. Although apparently you're outside all the time (and Okinawa is freakin HOT) so that's not so great but... I might sacrifice that level of discomfort if it means my hands won't be covered in food at the end of the day.

With that being said my week hasn't been all that eventful since I had 6 days of work and then a day off two days ago. The biggest thing was that we have another roommate so now there are 6 people in our tiny little apartment! Yay!

Summer 2014 - Okinawa, Japan [Week 3/12]

I had a line of day off's this week and am now in the middle of a 6 day stretch - so what stories do I have to tell from my third week in sunny Okinawa?

Well we got four new people who came in (as I might've mentioned from last week) and I still haven't met the guy, but I've met all the girls. One of them works with me at the restaurant - she came from Canada but she's originally Russian.The other two are German, and Chinese but from the UK (Welsh) - they're both bellhops. Not much to say about them (not the gossip-y type), but they're all nice and I get along with them. It's refreshing to have an English speaking person at the restaurant I work at - even if I won't be working there anymore starting tomorrow! There have actually been a lot of new people at the restaurant I'm working at thought - and a lot of them are students (High school part-timers and interns from technical colleges). Due to the amount of days off I had though (11th, 13, 15th) I haven't had too much time to talk to these knew people and now I'm off at another place - kind of sad but also really excited. Can't wait!

Summer 2014 - Okinawa, Japan [Week 2/12]

A bit late on the update but another week has passed and boy, what a week.

I had another day off on the 5th of July, but it was largely uneventful - so let's talk about the big thing that did actually happen this week and that is Typhoon Neoguri.

So the news kept saying how Typhoon Neoguri (台風８号) here in Japan was going to be a "super typhoon" coming from the Philippines and would be one of the worst ones in 15 years...... and we still had to go to work. Although to be honest I wasn't complaining because our apartment actually ended up losing power - but still. So let me walk you through the experience I had with Typhoon Neoguri and how... to be honest I was expecting something a lot worse.

Summer 2014 - Okinawa, Japan [Week 1/12]

Hello! I've been in Okinawa for... a bit over a week now actually, but it's been a week since I started working and that's the day I'm counting by.

So, first I guess I should start by explaining what I'm doing in Okinawa in the first place, and the answer is work! I'll be in Okinawa until Sep 10 working as a part-timer in a restaurant at the Rizzan Sea Park Hotel/Resort. I'll be honest, it hasn't been the most fun job in the world, but already within a week I've head a handful of awesome times and have met some amazing people. I'll be updating about my time in Okinawa every week on Wednesday from now, detailing my super amazing job (not) and whatever I did on my days off/when I'm not working. Because this is the first post, it will be kind of long because I have a lot of things to talk about - but I'm pretty sure the next posts I make won't be nearly as long, but I'll try to put in as much as I can remember!