I swear I'm all but invisible.

I don't think I've ever really stood out since elementary school, so it's nothing new. But Japan amplifies the feeling.

Daily quote from google

The first one totally had a cooler name. Oh well.

I'm trying this again from the school computer. Les'see if I have more success..

Pullin' in at 204 kanji.

If counting compound kanji and vocab that I can make out of what I've learned, I have about 354 words in my vocabulary.

.... is that all!?!

Feels like it should be so much more. (z_z) Is it any wonder my social life among non-English speakers sucks?

^ Is the result of me slapping my keyboard.

F***ing spoilers.

Jerks. Is it that hard to put "WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD" at the top of a webpage?

I need to start keeping a tighter watch on my money (and I say "need" in a very literal sense. If I don't, I'm going to be unable to pay off my car (200,000 yen), my apartment loan (90,000 yen), and my university monthly payment ( Read more... )

I started teaching an elementary school level English class. It'll happen twice a month.

Grades 1 to 4 were wonderful. Incredibly spastic and sometimes difficult to control, but they were sweet and loved to get into the games.

Grades 5 and 6 were something like this:


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No, despite the subject head, I have no word about any new exotic Japanese foods ( Read more... )

If I write about them, I tend to recall them more easily in the future. Sometimes ( Read more... )