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[26 May 2008|12:00am] |
I got paid, my first full paycheck. I was absolutely shocked when i saw how much money for a monnths worth of work.
by the time they took rent, taxes, etc. i was left with $1,100. For a month of full time work, working pretty much six day weeks.
I can't believe it.
So today, as I was wandering around my little area of Japan, I couldn't help but wonder what the point of being here is.
I mean I am working six days a week, I get home from work so late that everything is closed.
I work Friday's and saturdays, so all the fun activites I get invited to go to, I can't go.
basically there is one day a week in which I have any time to do anything.
I won't get more than two days in a row off until the very end of august, and I will be lucky to get two days in a row before then.
So when am I going to travel around? I could take a day trip to tokyo, but wait, they aren't exactly paying me enough.
So I am here, trying new food, which I love ( i can't eat at restaurnts that often because everything closes when I finnish work....). Sadly there isn't much else.
I want to do things, take classes, like in a martial art, in tea ceremony, in kimono's all that neat stuff they have here.
But the way things are now, I might as well be back in Canada, it's a hell of a lot cheaper, I will the same amount of money, and I will have more free time.
Blah to Japan.
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