First day of work:)

On tuesday I shall be working in the nursery at 8:30 am until lunch time where we will then head to the hospital to eat lunch and start in the ward at 1pm. So today i was up at 7:30am and at 8:15am we headed down to the nursery as it is at the bottom of our apartements. In Japan you must be at least 15 minutes early for things, in the UK we think being 5 minutes early is good, here it is late. As we arrived at the nursery to a shocked woman we realised we didnt actually start there until next week and we had the morning off, not good at all as i was super tired! I really hate missing out on sleep but i headed back to my room and made some Katakana posters and skyped Gavin.
Finally at quarter to 12 we headed to the hospital for lunch which wasn't all that good. The Japanese have a very strange combination of food and im finding it hard to find things which i like other than just beef, chicken and rice. I was feeling quite scared about working in the ward as my Japanese is very minimal and i discovered none of the nurse assistants could speak much english apart from making beds and cleaning. In the end it turned out quite good, the shift was mostly spent making up beds, following around people and going up and down stairs alot to collect medicines and take blood samples to the clinic. One of the assistants was very eager to learn english words and she tried to teach me Japanese words for things so that was nice. Im going to try really hard to learn Japanese at nighttimes so i can communicate easier.
On the plus side i didnt get lost and i dont think i did anything wrong...yet!

Unfortunately dinner wasnt very great either, i would really love some maccaroni or pizza or even just a chinese!! After dinner we  headed to CocoWalk which is our local shopping mall and went to Mister Donuts to make up for eating a healthy dinner. Tomorrow i shall only be working in the ward until morning then i am off after lunch so i think i may go check out the local swimming pool:)