Our Apartment

This is the exterior of our apartment complex. Pretty new, probably only a few years old.

This is our apartment. We live on the first floor, with our own balcony type thing. Japan doesn't have dryers, so everyone just hangs their clothes out to dry. We do the same.

This was actually taken our first night in our apartment, so everything is still in disarray when we took the video. I'm happy to say that since then, things have gotten cleaned up and organized and we've bought / received necessary things to make life go smoothly. Overall, the apartment is wonderful. Our only gripe is that it is on the first floor - we had been hoping for a second floor apartment, but they were all full.

There wasn't a very good view of the kitchen in the video, so here's another couple pictures of it. And yes, we are using a cardboard box as a table for the rice cooker and toaster. It was free, and it works, so we're happy with it. (The rice cooker was actually lent to us by one of the Interac Office workers in the Tokushima branch. I guess his family just had an extra one laying around. Yay!)

One of our ward members works for a company that provides him a TV, so he sold us the one he bought a while ago. It's a High Def. 32 inch flat screen TV, and he gave it to us for a very low price. We are very grateful for it!