Apartment

	View from the front door
	Washing machine and toilet room. To the left is the shower/bathroom
	Living room complete with all the amenities
	The kitchen, which is right off the living room. Large for a Japanese kitchen. Still no oven though.
	A view of the tatami room from the living room
	The Western bedroom
	Nighttime view from the tatami room
	Another nighttime view, this time of the moon
	Daytime view from the same window
	View of the apartment from the street. The leftmost window of the featured buidling is the window the above three pictures were taken from.
	Here's a view out my window during the first snow of the year shortly before Halloween. This one didn't last long.
	Here's a fairly common view out my window... or was when I got home before full dark. I love the rays of light.
	Here's a view of my best friend this winter. This thing is on whenever I'm home and costs me a pretty penny in heating oil, but without insulation I don't really have much choice. Keeps me at a comfortable 18 degrees.
	Here's my car. It's a Nissan Sunny or something. Pretty nice used automatic that cost about $3000 and included a set of winter tires. Expensive relative to what the other ALTs paid, but I'm happy with it so far.
	Here's the New Years decoration I made from grass and paper and plastic bits.
	Combine very cold temperatures, very strong winds from an unusual direction, and the water that collects on my door from a broken water heater and this is what you get. My door literally frozen shut. A good shoulder charge can open it, though.
	In the garage stall next to mine my neighbor keeps an umbrella for rainy days. The roof leaks a bit, and with the alternating melting/freezing going on now, it makes for a good picture.