Fellow Blogger, Brit and Teacher...

Some good news today, in between the horrid experience of the Dentist's drill. I had an email reply from Lydia, a fellow blogger and teacher on the JET programme. I had emailed her with some rather geeky questions about using my computer in Japan. See her reply below....

hey justin, thanks, glad someone other than those who read it out of obligation is enjoying my blog!
well done on getting on NOVA, do you know what prefecture youre going to yet?
re bringing your laptop, i brought a laptop which didnt need a transformer as people usually will warn you about, mailny because i dont know of any laptop that doesnt have its own transformer built into the power supply. i have an internet connection in the house which isnt difficult to set up i've heard, but i had the luck of moving into an apartment which already had it. my internet is a fast connection but sadly i cant tell you more than that as i get it free by some glitch in the phone company so i dont want to ask and have them realise their mistake! haven't heard of anyone with a 56k connection, everyone is running on some random version of broadband, so you;ll likely need an ethernet card connection with the laptop or a socket that will take that sort of cable.
re keeping the blog up to date, my situation is standard of JETs (a program like NOVA) that we have an easily accessible internet ready terminal at school and copious amounts of free time during the day to write it and just attach a photo at home and set it online, but lately i have been doing it mostly at home. i dont actually know what the NOVA workload or internet access conditions are like, but with internet at home its not too hard. i tend to update on a monday as the gym is closed and i have nothing better to do, and all my mates are still nursing hangovers.
anyway, congrats again on getting on NOVA, hope its been of help, lemme know if you need any more info etc.


She is based in Toyama, which is a prefecture north of Tokyo and number 19 on the map of Japan which you can access from the link below

http://gojapan.about.com/cs/japanmaps/l/blprefecturemap.htm


Not much more to say about today.