Cell Phones

Today was the last day of going to the schools I will be teaching at for my new schedule and it was possibly the worst. It took me and hour and 40 minutes to get there from my apartment. The directions they gave us were hardly adequate. Luckily for myself I decided to leave 2 hours in advance in case I got lost. Little did I know it would just take me that long to get there normally.

So that's my little rant. Now I want to show you what cell phones are like in Japan. (Not all of them, but some...)


So, we have cake cell phone and bedazzled skull cell phone. I haven't actually seen any one's phone look like the cake one on the left, but this was in the display case of Bic Camera (a large electronics store near on the of the schools I work at) so I have to assume some girls somewhere have cell phones that look like pieces of cake. I have seen many bedazzled cell phones though.

My cell phone looks like this...

It has skeleton stickers on the back because one of the days that I had nothing to do at work (no lessons to teach) a teacher had an entire sheet of skeleton stickers that her kids classes didn't want, so we decorated my phone with them. Everyone has baubles on their cell phones here. I think two has to be my maximum. As far as I can tell they all have bells attached to them so they jingle everywhere. I saw one guy's phone with about 80 baubles attached. I don't know how he could stand to carry it around with so many cutesy things hanging off the side of it. Mine are the traditional good luck cat in Japan (not sure what it's called) and a little jug I got from the Hounen Festival that has a surprise inside. It's a tiny golden member. It was the most tasteful souvenir I could find there.