September 23, 2008, 9:40 pm
Well, once finished the two last tests and finished the project, I feel a bit more released from stress, so I thought of updating the blog. You may ask, what is that title about?
I bet you won’t say the same after seeing this:
Tokyo Subway Map
Those are not coloured spaghetti, its Tokyo’s subway map! It took me like 2 months to get used to it, and when I get it, using a lot of my patience to study it, then it appears this:
Small map of Tokyo
Yes, this is how Google Maps looks like if you see Tokyo. This is the tool I use to calculate the distances from a possible flat to the Japanese Academy or the Spanish Embassy. How can I understand that? I’m going to stop here until I got more inspiration to tell it hehehe… to be continued (hopefully).
September 20, 2008, 6:04 pm
These days I’ve been very busy with paperwork. Past Friday (September 5, 2008) I went to the Japan Embassy in Madrid to deliver all the forms required for the visa. These are the forms:
- ICEX letter
- “Verbal note” [difficult english translation, I don't even know what this means in Spanish] from the External Affairs Ministery, which I got before going to the Japan Embassy
- Copy of the “contract” signed with all the conditions
- Passport
It was a good experience to be in Japanese ground. In a matter of seconds I entered a place where all the ads and notices were written in Japanese 
They even had a “chiisai neko” (little cat) playing around. Everybody seemed to speak Japanese but the gard who must be from Madrid!
At first sight they looked efficient, there were not queue, just one Japanese guy. When my time arrived, they recognized as soon as I mentioned the word ICEX. Once finished, they told me they will call me in a week aproximately… I wish everything goes fine, but I wouldn’t mind having some days more at “casiña” before leaving to conquer the East.
September 11, 2008, 7:50 pm
After the bloody selection for the grant in CECO Building, the strongest, the chosen meet each other day by day in the new battlefield: The Regus Building.
Here we take the lessons each day, some are boring, others don’t… but the truth is that the moments we spend there are priceless (specially the ones after… when we go to have some “after lessons”’s beers).
Regus
