The Big One

Okay so This is whats been going on with me recently.  Try to keep up:

So I hit my halfway point a while back and I was moved out my first building and into my second.  This is a big deal to me because I spent a long time getting used to how things worked in the first company and meeting everyone.  I had started making friends with some of the people in my office, like Kenta who spent a few years in Canada and was pretty fluent.  So I get moved the new building and find out that no one understands any english at all.  None.  So the last two weeks have been a battle trying to figure out what I needed to be doing.

The first week I spent in the editing dept.  I worked with some of the VTR people, some of the editors and directors, and a the special effects team, who by the way are really cool.  One of them worked on two of the old Resident evil games.  Both of them used programs that I knew how to use so we had a good old time swapping ideas with each other.

The second week I worked in the sound dubbing office and the journalism dept.  The sound dubbing was pretty slow work for most of the day up until the live news program came on.  Everyone would come running in there to get their programs finished before airing.  One clip finished literally 2 minutes before it had to be aired.  It was amazing watching the runner take off and the rest of use watching the clock and the tv hoping he would make it in time.  I also got to work as cd checker, which basically was me litening to cool music and writing my opinion about it for future use.  About 2 or 3 of us were working on that most of the time.

The news dept was by far the most nuts.  Because it was just a bunch of people sitting around for a news event to happen.  And when it did the whole place would explode.  Sounds interesting but my boss wanted my cell phone number in case I had to get to work early the next day  to cover and event.  He called me 3 times that night: 10, 12, and 1 oclock in the morning.  The conversations went like this “Andrew, we need you here by 8,” “Andrew, don’t worry we don’t need you here until 10 so sleep in” “My mistake get here by 8″.  When its 1 in the morning and your boss calls to tell you to wake up at 6 when you were supposed to wake up at 8,  you are filled with a rege that won’t let you go back to sleep.  That and it was about 90 degrees in my room.  I have not been able to get a good night sleep since the weather turned humid.  Another reason I was so mad.

But good news is that my company took me out for a nomikai on wednesday.  A nomikai is basically a big party for a group of people, either in a class, group, or company.  So I had my fill of Japanese food and beer that night.  Have to say it was pretty fun except even though no one knew what I was saying half the time.  This wasn’t because of the language barrier it’s because after 3 beers most of my co-workers were completly drunk out of their minds.  I’m not saying I’m an Irish harbor worker but I held my drinks better than everyone there.  Which was good because I also had another nomikai on thursday and friday.  Like I said it’s been pretty fun.