OUR FIRST DAYS IN JAPAN

We began this blog in order to share our experience in Japan with friends and family. As you might have already noticed from the blog name my husband and I are from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico "la isla del encanto" - the island of enchantment. How we ended up in Hiroshima, Japan I'm still asking myself but basically for work. In a conclusion we are half way around the world from our home.

We have been riding around Hiroshima in our bikes the past few days exploring our surroundings. You have to look out for all sorts of thing like people walking, more bicycles, kids running and funny looking mopeds with crazy drivers - it's like the game Frogger but with real people. Below you can a see a picture of our bikes, mine is light blue and Orlando's is black.


We also got our car and literary went around the block and back. Basically because it did not have a lot of gasoline and we have to figure out how to say fill it up or simply put some gas in this thing!!! We got navigation system in it and made the lady who brought it to our apartment program in our house. Since its in Japanese we basically drive and try to make the arrow on the screen go toward the blue house that indicates home. Finally we where able to put some gas into the car but 3/4 of a tank was about $52 US dollars !!! I have a feeling my bike is going to be my best friend in terms of transportation. Below is a picture of our Mazda Verisa.

In terms of food we are doing OK and "inventing" a few meals. The quantity of food portions is small so that it's fresh (almost everything expires 2 days later). I was able to figure out the stove somewhat so that we won't cause any fires or anything like that. Now the rest of the appliances are waiting for my guessing game of function buttons.