Wednesday January 17, 1990
At 07:04 we board the express train bound for Fukuoka, the largest city on Kyushu. We, Murakami-sensei, JQS, and I, are headed for a 3-day conference for the teachers in the JET program. Three days off from school, all expenses paid in another posh hotel, and familiar faces from our first week in Tokyo. But the think I look most forward too is the sound of lots of idiomatic-filled English, spoken unthinkingly and fast.
Fukuoka, with its wide streets and tall buildings, is so very modern-looking compared to Beppu-shi. It's much more like the image of hi-tech Japan we get from the media. If we lived in the city, instead of the rural countryside, my impressions of Japan would be completely different.
Wow. Our hotel room has satellite TV so we've been watching CNN and the ABC News.
| Yen | Item |
|---|---|
| 4150 | JQS train: K-F-K |
| 1500 | JET directory |
| 1540 | JQS sweater |
| 4089 | laserdisc: Pink Floyd |
| 226 | 2 cookie cutters |
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens
January 17, 1990
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Midyear JET conference in Fukuoka.