For three days starting October 7, we went on an adventurous and money-eating trip to Tokyo. On Saturday, we visited the land of milk and honey for all techno-freaks out there, Akihabara. On Sunday, we visited the magical world of Tokyo Disneyland and on Monday, we had an ocean adventure at the Yokohama Sea Paradise….
Category: Japan
Seiko-Epson General Orientation
On Wednesday this week, we took part in this orientation offered by Seiko-Epson Corporation to all of its foreign employees and trainees. We, being foreign trainees, automatically qualify for this orientation. The orientation started out with the usual blah blahs and actually, it was quite boring. We were given a brief history of the Seiko-Epson…
Our First Japanese Party
Unlike the previous weeks, there were several important things that happened this week. For one thing, we received our allowance for the month of October last Friday. For another thing, we had our final exam in C++ last Wednesday. But the most important thing that happened this week is that we’ve attended out first Japanese…
From Japan with Love
As in the previous week, there really is nothing very special about this week. It’s just like any other week of technical training here at the Murai office of Epson Software Development, Inc. Lectures, reports and quizzes in the morning and assignments in the afternoon. At night, we study for our exams the following day…
Fire Drill
Well, there’s nothing so special about this week except for the fact that on Thursday, we took part in a company activity they call the Fire Drill. We’ve already been informed about the fire drill days before the event but this didn’t prevent us (AOTS trainees) from being the least prepared group in the whole…
Summer Vacation!?!
We only had two office days this week since Monday to Wednesday is what they call Summer Vacation here in Japan. So, what does that mean for us. It simply means we don’t have access to the Internet from Saturday of last week until Wednesday of this week and boy was it difficult. We had…
Getting the Feel of Nagano-ken
This week marks our first complete week here in the Murai Office and so far, I have learned to adapt to my life here and I think I will survive. I think. Hehe. It was difficult at first but thank goodness, I have learned to “do what the Romans do.” To start the week, we…
From Aichi-ken to Nagano-ken
Moving to Nagano was quite difficult for us because we cannot imagine leaving all our friends from the Chubu Kenshu Center (CKC). We really enjoyed our stay at the CKC but life must go on so goodbye Aichi-ken and hello Nagano-ken. Upon arriving at Nagano-ken, the first thing we noticed was that Nagano-ken was more…
Study Tour all over Japan. Yehey!
The start of the week was quite boring, really. But things immediately started to get better on Wednesday — the first day of our study tour and I will be dedicating this section to our study tour. First stop… Kyoto! We got there via shinkansen, more popularly known as the bullet train in less than…
Week Before the Last Week in CKC
Some good things simply don’t last. Hmp. Next week will be our last week at the CKC. After which, we’ll be moving to the Hirooka Laboratory of Epson Software Development (ESD), Inc. Then on November, we’ll all be moving to our own laboratories, where we’ll be training until June of next year. Just recently, I…
Routinary Life
We’re now on our fourth week and now, I’m starting to feel the pain of a routinary life. Everyday, it’s the same. I wake up early in the morning so as not to be late for my 9:00 class. We have two 10 minute breaks… one at 10:00 and the other at 11:00. Lunch time…
Factory Visits Galore
We had two factory visits this week and both were so much fun each having its own distinct characteristics. On Wednesday, we went to Toyota City, in particular one Toyota plant and the Toyota Museum. On Friday, we went to Jyosui Elementary School, which is only a fifteen minute walk from the Chubu Kenshu Center….
Enrico in Tokyo 