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September 22, 2004
The B.O.E.
The head honchos of my job are located at the Board of Education. This is the land of crazy Japanese office fairytales.
The town office is even getting ready for the festival. Notice the white symbol located at the apex of the building, that is that Tanbara-cho emblem. Here there are symbols for everything I tell you.
Haruyuki is my supervisor, he likes PowerPuff Girls, so we bonded.
All of the teachers and school staff are invited to attend a pottery class at a workshop known for making these horses. They look to me like the 4th through 7th century Haniwa style, wow I'm actually having flash backs to Asian art history, that class still gives me nightmares.
We, on the other hand, make simple coil pots. It was a great time though; the people here are amazingly kind and friendly.
Getting ready to fire.
Enkai time. Semi-formal dinner and drinking parties bring forth the lighter side of the otherwise fairly uptight office workers. These enkai's are held usually more than twice a year, cost an arm and a leg, provide a kind of bonding experience that US companies try to muster with camps and such, and the alcohol just flows and flows...
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Posted by theinfonaut at September 22, 2004 02:50 AM