T - 10 days and counting...

Only 10 more days before I depart for the homeland!!!Anybody wanting to come visit in Oita-city will be happy to know that my apartment has been upgraded from the one room shoebox I was expecting to a two room almost-mansion. And, get this: one of my rooms will have tatami mats and the other will have hardwood floors. No doubt I will be mistaken as a gentleman for the sheer opulence of my abode. My address (which is smack in the middle of Oita City) will be:

Thomas R. Hathaway
Geitan-Copo 302, 13-18 Ueno-Machi

Oita city, Oita 870-0832
JAPAN

Also, for all of those who have not yet heard, Lee is going to be a JET in Oita prefecture as well!!!! What city/town she will be in exactly she doesn't yet know but she will, at most, be only a stone's throw away (though perhaps a very small stone thrown by someone with a rather muscular arm).