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1000 people eaten (that means "views")?! WOW! 

School finally starts tomorrow. That means I gotta wear a tie. I usually only wear a tie 2 times a year, if that, back home...both times being for parent/teacher conferences. Now I have to wear a tie every day! I usually have to re-learn doing one each time, but thanks to the wonders of technology, YouTube has become my saviour...

A lot of people have been wondering what my apartment looks like, so I've finally gotten around to taking some photos and video of my apartment. I live 5 minutes away from Mejiro Station, which is 22 minutes away from the train stop where my school is. In between my apartment and the school are very famous Tokyo areas, such as: Shibuya (Shibuya crossing), Shinjuku (busiest station in the world), Harajuku (Yoyogi park and crazy fashions), etc.

20 Square Meters of Heaven

Fukujima House (white 3 story building on the left)

Biru means Beer (ooh!)

First day of orientation at the school started yesterday. So all the new teachers got to meet all the other new teachers (21 new teachers in total). So many new teachers this year due to a lot of the other teachers having fears over last March's earthquake situation.

Some random facts about Canadian International School:

• 21 new teachers
• about 70 teachers in total
• Kindergarten to Grade 12
• 257 students

Un-school related... some new teachers and I went out exploring the last few days. This cartoon represents what basically happened:

I thought this comic was hilarious when I saw the original at one of my favourite gaming webcomics, Dueling Analogs. Here's the OG:

Here are a few photos of beers found by anonymous people here in Tokyo in the last few days.

This looks big...BUT...

THIS is a GRADUATED CYLINDER of more than a LITRE of BEER...

This fellow needs to use 2 hands...for shame...

On another side-note, I spotted this interesting pairing of hand soaps in a public washroom:

I chose the "non-flammable" one.

Today is Friday...so that can only mean it's "all you can eat AND all you can drink" day all paid for by the school. COMPAI! (cheers!)