These are the times I love being a mere ALT and not a ral teacher in Japan with so many responsibilities. :-) I'm sitting here at the BOE not at school this morning because of the sudden hurricane that came crashing down on our prefecture just last night. All the schools in the area including my junior high that I had to go to this morning was ( Read more... )

Is what my friend asked me late last night on AIM while I bitched and moaned about these horrible kids at wonderful Nachi Junior High School. The new school year began early this month and in most Japanese schools that means a new set of teachers and a new set of rules. I know I already mentioned how bad the first years were last year. How bad were ( Read more... )

to upload all those photos of my spring break with my mom and Tori and Dean. I'm just going to post a few pictures for now. Well, actually just 2. 2 of my favorite pictures from this whole trip. Hahaha.


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 I am currently in Rose's apartment. By myself. Hahaha. I actually came to her place pretty early in the morning today and hung out with her for about 2 hours before she left to go to her weekly Japanese lesson in the other town. So I am here still hanging out in her apartment, just keeping her chair warm. and using her internet and eating her ( Read more... )

 Wow, I haven't updated this thing in a loooong time haven't I ( Read more... )

All in all, we had a wonderful time keeping each other company. :-) It felt like I was back in cozy Santa Barbara in the old apartment. Just the three of us. And that was the best feeling I had in a while. It was a little stressful for me trying to to navigate our way through the big city,  I won't lie to you about that. But it was still a lot of ( Read more... )