Week 1 In The Office

I finished my first week in the office. It was interesting. Most of the group speaks some English since it's the international business group for the company. However, in the interest of making me feel more Japanese, they preferred to speak Japanese with me. It will be good for me.

I'm slowly getting used to using all of the programs in Japanese. It was pretty challenging at first trying to perform simple tasks because of all the Chinese characters. I'm starting to learn some of them, and memorizing locations of certain commands. I printed out some screen captures this weekend and Mio and I went through them and translated them. This should help me to learn them much quicker.

I got to ride in a chauffeured company car to the company attorneys to work on a contract for one of our larger customers. The lawyers were located on the 11th floor in a high rise near the emperor's castle. The view out of the meeting room overlooked the moat around the castle. It was really pretty.

After the meeting we went to a Chinese restaurant nearby. The food was really good and quite a bit different from Chinese restaurants in the US. The food was more along the lines of Japanese food and not nearly as oily as in the US. It was quite tasty.