I think last week was one of the worst weeks of my time in Japan. People reading this probably already know from Facebook and the like, but I'll write it again anyway. I lost Midori. She died on Monday, probably not six hours after I last saw her. I'm not sure what happened and I'm quite angry that nobody contacted me: she has a microchip! She was ( Read more... )

My bloody cat's gone AWOL and I'm really worried. It's really hard to get the motivation for anything but I'm going to force myself to do something apart from sitting on my sofa pining: like the three-day-old washing-up.

Wow. It's been a while. I've completely lost the habit of writing a blog. Of course I still run through potential posts in my head but they're generally rants about mad Japanese things and I don't want to write purely negative things on here ( Read more... )

Found out yesterday that the JET Programme limit has been extended to five years, from three. I knew it was possible to do two more years as an elementary school ALT, but now they're saying you can carry on in your existing job. It's a big thing, really ( Read more... )