Email home Saturday 13th April 2002

We move into our house on Monday! It will be nice to be in our own house (though no swimming pool and we’ll have to make the bed ourselves) – the hotel is very good but after 2 weeks we are a bit bnored.

We’ve had another busy week. Or I have, anyway: Cameon’s just been going to work! I’ve been working as well but have also been back to look at the house to make sure we definitely wanted it (was that only monday?), to a yoga class, which was much more strenuous than the classes I am used to, and out for a revolving sushi lunch with Gail, whose husband also works for Shell. (The sushi itself doesn’t revolve.) I’ve chosen a whole house-full of furniture so goodness knows what that will look like when it arrives, a jumble sale I expect. We’ve registered as aliens (!) and opened a bank account. I got very cross in teh bank when they asked Cameron if I wanted a cash card thengave it to him saying “this is for her”. Talk about a second-class citizen (and then when we went back to finalizse the furniture they were all over him and asked if it was ok that I had chosen it). Gah!

Yesterday, I went with Gail to look at the western supermarket (I dont’ think there is anything you can’t get, I checked for all the essentials. Peanut butter, ice cream, cheese, teabags) then met Cameron at his work in the evening for some welcome drinks. Phew! Today we went to Asakusa, where there is a big tempe and “kitchenware alley” – hundreds of shops selling everything you could possibly want to runa restaurant, including the plastic food they put outside! Then we went up the tokyo tower – ad Eiffel tower lookalike but a few metres taller just because they could! It was hazy so we couldn’t see all that far (we didn’t see Fuji) but it was s till a good view.

PS I’ve attached a picture of Cameron at work in his pyjama-like uniform.

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