A nice shop
Was there ever any doubt? 
Don't drink beer, slouch, and look at pictures of girls in the train please, but doing it at home is actively encouraged.
Just 'avin a lark 
vacuuming in the street...that's fairly normal isn't it?
Playing outside in the rain with electric guitars, safe as houses.
There's not a lot you can do about earthquakes, so in my mind its not really worth worrying about them to much. They're quite common (Japan experiences about 20% of the worlds earthquakes annually) and to be honest most of the time they're over before you can start thinking about what's going on. Many a time I've woken up in the middle of the night or the early morning with my bed rocking (no dirty jokes here please, we're still talking about earthquakes) but after 2-3 seconds they tend to stop and I head back to sleep only to check with other teachers or students the next day if it really happened or if it was just part of a dream.
But this week we're had quite a lot, it all started on Thursday (May 8th). The biggest was a 6.7 at about 1:45 am, but what was strange this time was that it lasted a lot longer than all the others I've felt. About 6-7 seconds at a guess. There was a 6.2 before the main quake and it was also followed by a number of aftershocks nearly as big as the original. Then there were 3 more yesterday, 5.7 4.5 and 3.5 on the Richter Scale.
The only reported injury I've seen is a teenager was hurt when his stereo speakers fell on him! but if you shift the epicenter towards Tokyo a bit and up the level by .1 or .2 there'll be trouble. Here's a few news story extracts to give you an idea...
'A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked central Japan in July last year, killing 11 people and shutting down the world's largest nuclear power plant owned by TEPCO...A 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Tokyo could kill 4,700 people, damage 440,000 buildings and leave thousands of others trapped in elevators, according to a study published by the government in 2006.'
So there's something to think about eh!
I'll do another update soon with a less serious topic. In brief, since my last post I've turned 27, been to Enoshima, seen mount Fuji up close, and wandered around two lakes.
