I'm back from my mini trip which was longer than I realised ( Read more... )

So yes, I am 25 now.

To those of you who sent things/birthday wishes. Thank you. I know I was all grumpy before because of the party my friends threw but something else happened that jarred everything further out of place but was in no way the fault of anyone at all.

Life has been chugging along quiet happily otherwise.

[Dating stuff]All the crap with PE ( Read more... )

I've now gone and found all the other 2nd season tenimyus ( Read more... )

According to one of my Kocho-senseis, this is my name in Japanese kanji ( Read more... )

I realised that I haven't been posting here for a while. I've been distracted by various things like the summer vacation and men and stupid things like shopping and reading One Piece.

Yes, I have fallen into the abyss that is One Piece and the endless manga. I've spent a good chunk of my summer reading it, mainly because its bloody popular here in ( Read more... )

So I've been here a month and several things have happened ( Read more... )

So now we're in 2011 and I'm not sure if the year has got off to a great start ( Read more... )

So today so far I've been studying Japanese. Working through another chapter in my kanji book to balance out the actual language learning. Since I've been warned by people that while just speaking Japanese is fine for a tourist, living there requires kanji in order to read.

My main problem with kanji is remembering which of the two readings to use ( Read more... )

So after several weeks, coming up to several months, of job hunting both in the area I live in and in Japan I finally have an offer for work in Japan in April as an ALT ( Read more... )

Ahhhh I got the e-mail about my interview with Interac to become one of the ALT's in Japan ( Read more... )