Ahhh...finally the Mac is linked to the net!

- Never Stop Dreaming -

Finally, this afternoon around 1 pm, I got my precious Mac hooked up to the net..which means I can spare my room mate, Grant's lappy. Got so much to upate since the last one. After numerous failed attempts to get my little baby online not to mention so many troublesome trips to the city to get a router to work as most Japanese routers dun support any other language except Japanese and none had a installation CD compatible with a Mac OS. It's funy though as the routers here have tedious steps involved to get it hooked up which pissed Grant off sooo much. Well in SG and America, router are bought off the shelf and wired up...and then wireless is just broadcast everywhere and there is no tedious proccess to go thru. Here in Japan, you have to disable the inbuilt security feature of the router, open up the web browser and disable the firewall and other computer security features and then log in to the router site and input the IP add, Webgate and DNS codes provided by the internet company and save the info into the router before you can use it. Grant is basically pulling his hair off and almost killed the shop staff who literally spent 30 minutes explaining the proccess to get the router to work where in English it's just simply, "Input the IP add, webgate and DNS codes provided by the Internet company" which is less than a minute. Well the formalities that the Japanese go through to be super polite to customers or to people of a senior position is pretty unbearable to some but to me, it's pretty alrite and so here are some highlights over the weekend...

Friday, attended school as usual...only taught in 1 class with 1 student and another Japanese English teacher. The rest of the day, attended the 1st grade students' party in school. Went back home around 7pm, and then headed over to Eric's (another English teacher from Utah, America) place. Nothing much over there except that Grant and I spent a whopping 45 minutes locating his hideout.

As there were no plans on Friday nite, Grant and I headed back to out base area and checked out another small pub. Met some really hot Japanese dude and ladies. The dude then invited us to a Harley Davidson event near Parada Ski Resort in Saku city and so the dude, Kenichi-San, sealed our fate on Sat. A mass Harley gathering of about 1000+ Harleys from all over Japan gathered there to commemorate the 8th year anniversary of the event. And also to raise funds for the Niigata July earthquake victims.

So Sunday, went out with Eric and the other JETs teachers, Shane and Ashley to a BBQ session thru a non-profit group to bring the Japanese English speakers and the foreigners together. Cool but no pictures though...haha that all for now till i get the photos up.