Wednesday 10th April 2002
This is from my diary from when we first relocated to Japan – pre-blog. Other entries can be found here.
We have a house! Hoorah. Went for a second look with Maromi* on Monday morning and we’re moving in next Monday – I think we’ve set a record. Didn’t do much else on Monday – had a walk down to Shinjuku and a look in the big bookshop, bought some lunch in the Takashimaya food court then did some work and had a swim.
Yesterday was busy – braved Shinjuku station at 8 am – not nice – to meet Gail for yoga. Yoga far more strenuous than anything I’ve been used to recently! Then we went for coffee, went to the tourist information centre, had a revolving sushi lunch (yum) and I came back to meet the furniture lady. Spent the afternoon picking furniture – actually quite difficult! She was determined I should have a navy blue suite, which is ok and I expect we will end up with it, but not that comfy. We’ll have to buy cushions! There were some things I liked as well that haven’t appeared on the quote – perhaps because I have already exceeded the budget. Think I’ll have to go back and iterate.
*Maromi was our girl from the relocation agency