wow.... can't believe it's already been a year since i came back to Japan. i can't believe that i haven't updated livejournal since April, which as far as i'm concerned might as well be a year ago itself. i also haven't been checking my friends page at all, so i know i've missed out on a lot of important things in other people's lives... sorry ( Read more... )

my recontracting form is in and it's official. a n00b will be living in this apartment come this time next year. D ( Read more... )

only two days remain until i have to turn in my recontracting form... in signing the form as not recontracting, not only will i be signing away my job, apartment and visa in japan. i will also be officializing the beginning of the end of this "chapter" of my life ( Read more... )

this weekend has been pretty... eventful ( Read more... )

i think i've kind of come to a conclusion... i will give myself ONE more year to save money. even if i fail again to do so during my 4th year, i cant/wont stay for a 5th year. not without something drastic happening to change my mind anyway. 4 years is the max! i HAVE to save money this year! >_<; if i had fkin saved money before now i would ( Read more... )

sometimes i feel like the typical ALT "human tape recorder". sometimes i feel like a clown, on display and expected to put on a fun show rather than actually teach anything. sometimes i don`t feel any particular way-- i do my job with nothing but apathy. sometimes i actually look forward to and enjoy my job. sometimes i feel like i (or rather, my ( Read more... )

so, i`ve been doing more thinking lately about what to do after this job... it feels like just the other day that when people asked me how long i`d been here i started saying "a year and a half" instead of "a year", but now whenever people ask and then find out when i got here (they often ask that too for some reason) they say "oh, almost two years ( Read more... )

so, i handed in my recontracting form last week telling the Kochi City Board of Education that i`d like to be contracted for another (3rd) year ( Read more... )

i`m finally done! i been working on these photos for the past three days and finally they`re all up on my site, partially commented on and ready for viewing. they are first sorted into albums by city and then further sorted by place... and such. none have been edited beyond resizing and taking out spots from crap being on my camera lens (damnit), ( Read more... )

...work. it begins again. WINTER VACATION WASN`T FKIN LONG ENOUGH DAMNIT. but i don`t want to use my nenkyuu (paid leave) to extend it any more than i already have. bleh. atleast i don`t start actually teaching until thurs/fri at the earliest as school doesn`t even start until thursday. till then i`ll just be sitting around the BOE, but i`d still ( Read more... )