Maiden Post

FINALLY got access to some internet around here, and am getting this thing up and running. The blog name is a combination of Japan and Androo, as I`m sure you figured out already. I have a thing for combining words...must be the Japanese in me. This is a country a term like gaikokujin touroku shomeisho can become gaijin torokusho though the powers of combination and abbreviation.

As this blog progresses, I hope to be putting up some pictures from my spanking new Nikon D40 with the Nikkor 18-200 VR lens (still giddy about this) as well as less pretty ones from my point n shoot Fuji F20. I also plan to have a little Youtube channel with random videos from my time here, but it looks like I left the USB cord for the F20 at home, so those may not appear for a while.

I`m also going to be talking a lot about food. From what I`ve heard, day to day life can get a bit repetitive in this area, and food can be a great way to change it up. I have some decent access to restaurants and food, but if you`re comparing it to LA or Tokyo or wherever else you know me from, I doubt you`d find everything you want.

That`s it for now. I hope you enjoy reading about life here from the perspective of a chubby, 3rd generation half Chinese/half Japanese, southern California raised, food obsessed, below average Japanese-speaking elementary school English teacher living in a prefecture of Japan known for its beef (Kobe beef actually comes from a region known as Tajima, but Kobe is a bigger city and thus, a bigger name). My town Asago-shi is actually 4 different towns that were incorporated earlier this decade, and now boasts a whopping 35,000 inhabitants.