My plane left Japan at 5 PM on Tuesday and landed in Atlanta at 3 PM on Tuesday. It has been, quite literally, a very long day.

The days leading up to today were also of note, but considering how tired I am, I just wanted to get it out there that I am in Atlanta until the 2nd. Unfortunately a lot of my time here is already spoken for, but hey.

It's been a good weekend. Work on Friday was a little rough. I had two sixth year classes at elementary school, and it's like pulling teeth getting them to participate at all, even with the "if you go, you'll get to pick who goes next!" stipulation. In one class, the teacher actually apologized to me during class while haranguing her students about ( Read more... )

Evidently people are interested in my boring life and have asked me to actually post in my LiveJournal, so without further ado, here is what I am doing...

...at work:The last days of the second semester are fast upon us, and as there isn't much I can do to help with final exams beyond saying target sentences into a tape recorder, I am unused and ( Read more... )

I think I've eaten more in the past two days than I had in the entire week or so before. Thursday night saw Thanksgiving dinner with JETs, and then last night was all-you-can-eat yakiniku (since the 29th of each month is "niku day," because one way the Japanese can pronounce 2 and 9 is "ni ku," which sounds like their word for meat). Apparently I ( Read more... )

First off: Good job, guys!

But look, I hate to poop the party, but don't forget that president-elect Barack "Neon" "Prime-Time" Obama is just a man. There's -


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It's been a busy last week or so. It's midterm time, so I've been writing and recording listening comprehension tests between preparing for elementary school and kindergarten visits ( Read more... )

Today I had my first elementary school third-year class, which I was a little apprehensive about. Second-years are seven, which is when every kid is awesome, and fourth-years are nine, which is when kids learn to be difficult in ways that aren't endearing ( Read more... )

It's been busy here in Japan - Our school's culture festival was a week or so ago and last Friday I started my visits to kindergarten and elementary school classes. The culture festival was fun, and somehow I was drafted into the PTA Chorus group so I went in front of all my students with most of the other teachers and sang in Japanese. I'll admit ( Read more... )

Man, good times:

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I managed to never lose my bike in New York City, but less than two months in small-town Japan and mine's been either stolen or impounded. I'm not sure which is more likely, or how to deal with it, really. I asked the agent at the station where it vanished yesterday where impounded bikes get taken, and he either didn't understand my Japanese or ( Read more... )