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Well, I have only one more month left in Japan. How RIDICULOUS IS THAT??? I am definately not ready to go yet by any stretch of the imagination. I am loving the teaching and my host family. I am enjoying the classes at Iwate U. I am just loving all that is Japan and going home just isn't where I want to be right now. But having said that, god I would kill for an enchilada dinner at Alamo Cafe or something. Getting back to Earlham is also really exciting cuz I get to see people that I have't seen in forever like Jesse and Dom, who is coming in early January for a while and I AM SOOOOOO EXCITED FOR THAT!!!!
Who will I hang out with there? SICE group? Polyglot group? new group? old group? who? I just don't know and while that is kinda scary, it is entirely to be expected. I don' know if I'll be hanging out with Jo and her new crowd (I guess its more of an old crowd) because I just haven't heard anything from that part of Earlham at all this semester. I got an email from alan the other day and that was really cool but I haven't sent him a response yet...bad me. Joey won't be on campus and neither will Laura. Richard won't be there and James too! err. How is Polyglot going to be different considering what they all had to go through regarding Austin? Are they going to be more tight or more distant? I just don't know. What about the SICE group? I honestly don't see us hanging out a ton when we get back just cuz we'll all float back to our respective circles where we all could hangout but it won't be like in Japan. Luke, Molly, and Jen are all people that I really want to get to know much better next semester and since Molly is always over at my house and Jen is right next door, that should be easy enough. Luke is a guy that I like alot and we'll definately hangout and do our "watch a movie and drink a new kind of beer every wednesday night" thing. I knew campus would change while I was away but I think it has changed soo much that I don't know if I will recognize it as my campus. Austin's death, my brother and other freshmen being there, just tons of things.
ahhh haha, my angsty rant. I'll end it there. Japan is going well and I will be very sad to leave it. However, doing JET or the Earlham Teaching in Japan program is very appealing to me at the moment so we shall see what happens to that. Peace Corp has lost none of its appeal but this has come to rival it. Peace out and hopefully the Dems will do a slightly better job than the GOP in running Washington. Doubt it but we'll see if the change they have already caused coupled with whatever they end up doing anything positive. I am just hoping that this does not give George W. an excuse to blame why we lost the war when we pull out. I hope that history doesn't show things in that light.
Peace Out
Who will I hang out with there? SICE group? Polyglot group? new group? old group? who? I just don't know and while that is kinda scary, it is entirely to be expected. I don' know if I'll be hanging out with Jo and her new crowd (I guess its more of an old crowd) because I just haven't heard anything from that part of Earlham at all this semester. I got an email from alan the other day and that was really cool but I haven't sent him a response yet...bad me. Joey won't be on campus and neither will Laura. Richard won't be there and James too! err. How is Polyglot going to be different considering what they all had to go through regarding Austin? Are they going to be more tight or more distant? I just don't know. What about the SICE group? I honestly don't see us hanging out a ton when we get back just cuz we'll all float back to our respective circles where we all could hangout but it won't be like in Japan. Luke, Molly, and Jen are all people that I really want to get to know much better next semester and since Molly is always over at my house and Jen is right next door, that should be easy enough. Luke is a guy that I like alot and we'll definately hangout and do our "watch a movie and drink a new kind of beer every wednesday night" thing. I knew campus would change while I was away but I think it has changed soo much that I don't know if I will recognize it as my campus. Austin's death, my brother and other freshmen being there, just tons of things.
ahhh haha, my angsty rant. I'll end it there. Japan is going well and I will be very sad to leave it. However, doing JET or the Earlham Teaching in Japan program is very appealing to me at the moment so we shall see what happens to that. Peace Corp has lost none of its appeal but this has come to rival it. Peace out and hopefully the Dems will do a slightly better job than the GOP in running Washington. Doubt it but we'll see if the change they have already caused coupled with whatever they end up doing anything positive. I am just hoping that this does not give George W. an excuse to blame why we lost the war when we pull out. I hope that history doesn't show things in that light.
Peace Out