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I started training today, so really did nothing very exciting to blog about.  I didn’t take any photos either, which will make this entry very un-pretty.  I just want to write so I can form the habit and try and keep this up to date.

Maybe I will think of something to photograph as I write.  Or maybe I will just stick in an old photo….

My first day at work was not as scary as expected, and I didn’t come home dreading ever returning, so that was a good day I think!  Many of the people here seem to have been here for a long time, including my trainer who has been here over 9 years…. so it can’t be so bad.  I assume it is entirely up to me whether I enjoy myself ir not.

I will be given a monthly rail pass to travel to and from work, which I can use as many times as I like within the month.  Very useful as Patrick and I travel to Shibuya quite often anyway.  It will also save messing about with tiny coins and fighting for a ticket machine in peak times.

Although the trains are often packed full, I don’t seem to mind when I know I am getting off in two stops anyway, so the commute is an easy one.  Another lovely thing is that using mobile phones for anything other than silent emailing or gaming is not the done thing.  No more listening to maximum volume, irritating ringtones while women fish about in their handbags, and no listening to unbelievably dull details of people’s lives while they yell into the phone as if they are the only person on board.  Yay!  When are they going to bring in similar rules on Melbourne transport?  Are we just behind?  Or a nation of arseholes?

Our apartment building in North Melbourne had no options for recycling anything even if we had wanted to do so.  Here, we were given a full page instruction sheet on how to sort our rubbish and how and what days to leave it out.  If we get it wrong, it will magically reappear back on our doorstep to be re-sorted PROPERLY.

At the moment I don’t really understand the sorting system, or where to put it once we have figured it out, so we have a cupboard full of rubbish waiting to be sent out. I would just take it down the street and dump it in a bin, but the only bins I have seen are recycle bins, so we are at a complete loss!

I am sure we will figure out the rules soon enough, and although it is confusing, I think that whale-killing aside, the Japanese seem to have a number of habits we should have picked up by now.

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