A Glimpse at our TLF

Whenever you are PCSing in or out of the country you usually have to spend several weeks in the TLF (Temporary Living Facility). We can stay here until our shipment arrives and/or we find a house to live in. We thought you might like to see where we are living currently. It is like a mini apartment with a small kitchen and basic kitchen essentials, a living room, dinette area and a bedroom and bathroom. Most of the buildings here are concrete and made to withstand the winds of typhoons. This past weekend we were on watch for a typhoon that was coming our way but it ended up changing directions and we only saw a little extra wind and rain from it. We still made the trip to the Commissary and stocked up on water and bought some candles and matches just in case. The TLF also has a free laundry area with two washers and two dryers so I don't have to go far to do laundry. The TV has several base TV stations that give all the information on the base and any activities coming up. There is about 8 other AFN stations that bring stateside programing of Sports and popular TV shows. There's a movie station and a Family station for kids' cartoons and there are three sports channels showing football, baseball, golf and whatever is most popular in the states. Then there are the memorable AFN commercials. Since they can't broadcast stateside commercials they make their own commercials. Some are quite funny and others are very strange. Some are the same ones we were seeing in England 10 years ago. Then there are about 8 or so Japanese stations. Even though we can't understand what they are saying they are sometimes fun to watch because of their silliness. Sometimes they even show American movies with Japanese language dubbed in. For some odd reason I enjoy watching them and trying to figure out what they are saying/doing. I took a picture of this one just to show how bizarre they are sometimes. This was a man dressed like a woman with green hair and they were doing some sort of comedy act.

A Glimpse of Japanese TV.