My 1st BLOG! Sorry it's been almost a month!!

HELLO ALL!!!
I am stealing my building mate's internet as I type right now because guess what, that's right I STILL don't have the internet!! Not having the internet is like not having air. It's worse than not having a cell phone. I feel like I can't breathe. I don't know how people ever survived without the internet. It just doesn't seem possible.
So much has happened since I left Denver that last Friday night almost exactly one month ago. I arrived in Tokyo and have been "blogging" manually in a diary (thanks Josh!). TODAY August 24 is when I actually typed up and posted what I have been writing over the past month. I currently work at a government office (yakuba) with about 8 other people on the Board of Education. I have a buildingmate from Canada named Kate, who is really cool since she's letting me use her internet right now to blog. So much has happened in the past month, and I am sad I couldn't share it earlier. But here is some of what I've experienced. My disclaimer is that I've only been here for a month and I could be misinterpreting experiences sometimes, for all you real Japanese experts out there reading my blog. Please overlook the grammar since I am typing as fast as I can. SORRY!
Miss you all,
Ka-so-n-do-ra
This is how you spell my name in a romanized way in katakana (one form of Japanese writing).