| to be honest
my Life is Japan is very nice now, however, when I first got here it was very hard, I gave up everything in the UK as my wife was pregnant with our baby Kai, Our orginal plan was to go back to the UK after Kai was born, nevertheless, things do not work out the way you plan, So I really had nothing when I came here no Job and only the money in my bank account as i did not think about using my savings as I thought we were going back to the UK, needless to say I could not get at my saving as they are in a building soc back in the uk with no bankcard just a paying in book. We were living in Akita north Japan where Hiroko is from she is a country girl at heart and hates the city so needless to say we have to live in quite areas even now that we are living near Yokohama. getting back to the story, I started to look for a job as we had a lot of arguement about going back to the UK so I finally consided, Akita is about 8 hrs from TKY by the Shinkansen, I needed the break so I would travel often to find work and come back late when hiroko was asleep i never minded this and would feed kaito for her and change his nappy when he woke and I would be gone before they got up.I found a job for Borderlink one thursday and they asked me to start work that monday in Saitama, I had no where to live so they said they would get me a house, I told them I had a wife and baby so what did the stupid lady do book me a house that was one room, So I had to stay there on my own for two weeks, Even though I spent a lot of time looking for a job and avoiding the arguments I missed my wife and baby too much and asked Hiroko if she could find us a house. even though I now had a job and moved away from Akita we would still find things to argue about, I guess the british are very direct and maybe sware a little too often for the cute Japanese. this gradually became the worst 6 months of my life and i wondered what i was doing. I owned two companies back in the uk spy-game.net and overseascommunictions.com with a guy called ken peckett before coming to Japan so I went from being well off to having nothing but a wife and baby and lots of arguments to top it all she would chuck things at me and really upset me she just thought she had troubles I had to deal with hers and mine and putting food on the table somehow. I am a computer consultant but trade and she kept telling me with my skills I should get a Job anywhere, the thing is it was hardenough for me to get a job with borderlink and she hated that company as my japanese is very bad so they would call my wife and get her to explain to me what they wanted it got to much so I had to quit that job. Futhermore, to tell you the truth, Japan seemed to me as the hardest country in the world to get work and I have worked in the Middle-East the USA, NZ and Singapore to name but a few places. My Japanese is very bad as i told you before and I was learning and I really do need to practise more too which i will make an effot to do in the near future. However, I met a guy called Brian, who has made my life more plesent and I am now contracting for him, my wife and I are now enjoying our time together and I am glad with pushed through the problems and talked in the end it took for her to move home for a few weeks and relised I am not such a bad guy,  and I guess the first year of out lifes in Japan were due to stress. I am not sure why japan is so stressful but I guess its the presure their parents put on them from an early age. I have met alot of people who have been through the same things as me maybe even worse. We are now expecting another baby due next month and I am too happy now. I guess life is what you make it everyone has to start somewhere right and when you go to a new country I guess you will always find some problems you just have to be strong and fight through them. hehe sorry to go on. | 
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