It is truly amazing, how much you can turn your life upside down in 40 odd hours. You can go from having your beloved apartment, job and hometown, to squatting on someone's floor with no job and a 'final extension' stamped ominiously into your passport ( Read more... )

I’m in the stage of packing up my life again. I swing from packing hell, to packing purgatory back to packing hell again ( Read more... )

Can't think of what to put in here, so I'm just going to put what I said to my school as my goodbye speech at closing ceremony. The principal and one of the English teachers said some words but I couldn't hear what they were saying so well because of echoes in the gym from where I was sitting. I'm assuming it was nice stuff, the student council ( Read more... )

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There is a proverb in Japan apparently that says one needs 75 days to recover mentally from a tragedy ( Read more... )

Friday evening I went home and obsessively watched the news. I got an email from Nagoya organisers saying that everything was canceled for Saturday until further notice, and then later on it was decided that the two concerts planned in Sakae and Fushimi would go ahead as planned. I half-heartedly packed up shoes and things and double checked my ( Read more... )

I remember being really excited about the St. Patrick’s Day festival in Ise when I first heard about it. For weeks after I found out my placement I was googling, checking the teacher’s forums online, looking up pictures and events. When I found out about the St. Patrick’s Day I ran upstairs to gush to my Mom about how I was going to the perfect ( Read more... )

Back to Shakespeare - (maybe) last of the catch up posts

So right before Valentines’s day, the sky opened up, it snowed!
It snowed a lot! 5 cm! WOW ( Read more... )

Have had a lot of half baked posts lined up, but had never posted them and now it's been over a month! I am still stalking all of your blogs and notes and it's great to know what you all are doing ( Read more... )