Confessions of a JET (or Le Sigh)

May 23, 2005 15:53

This might be news to some, but every year, JET holds an essay contest ( Read more... )

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hinekureta May 24 2005, 05:07:30 UTC
Love it, shame that it doesn't paint Japan in a 1000000% positive light (like the essays have to), would look good in print ;)

The truth? They can't handle the truth...

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drawma_boy May 24 2005, 06:56:11 UTC
oh, why thank you.... have we met?!?!

the name's cody and you are....

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drawma_boy May 24 2005, 07:05:14 UTC
oh never mind, steve! i didn't know you had a journal!! (or did i just forget???) either way, i had to look at your profile which is rather bare on the essential info bits, and then i had to look at the pics on your website. don't do that again! i almost had a heart-attach anticipating what sort of site i might stumble upon while sitting in the middle of my school office!!

oh, kyoto sensei, never mind the bestiality rape porn i'm looking at!!!

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hinekureta May 24 2005, 07:15:28 UTC
I think you just forgot... :P It is kinda light on details tho, you are right hehe

Glad to have been of assitance in making sure ur heart works good ;)

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anonymous May 25 2005, 04:02:29 UTC
It was a pleasure to read. Thank you.

Gareth

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drawma_boy May 25 2005, 04:47:25 UTC
gareth! you need to boot that ol' booty blog of yours to the curb. lj is better organized (and just plain cooler). i could never find your stuff because looking for your name is like wading through an un-alphabetized encyclopedia! boo!!

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anonymous May 26 2005, 05:12:25 UTC
ahh, but I have creative control over my blog :)

and well... I'm lazy. Plus I get to add pictures. :)

G

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jp_caliboy May 25 2005, 04:38:15 UTC
Konbanwa... darling, or is it... Ohayo gozaimasu? i forget. turn that frown upside down, and don't be a gloomy puss. if they can't see it, then NEXT! move on... they don't validate your writing... right? just kind words from your west coast amigo!

Oyasuminasai... JP ;-)

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drawma_boy May 25 2005, 04:57:06 UTC
actually, sweetcheeks, the proper one this time is "konnichiwa" because it's still a sunny afternoon here! however, the stars are always shining in cyberspace....

really jp, don't fret over lil' ol' me. why would i need (or even want) their validation when so many people who are important in my life provide all the loving support to sustain me? i never really thought it would win.... but the bucket o' prize money wouldn't have been half bad, though >:(

thank you anyway, for the concern!

jya matta ne (see ya later!)

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phoenixmuse May 25 2005, 05:01:16 UTC
This has completely nothing to do with this point. I wanted to say that your bio is definitely one of the more interesting ones I have read thus far. Plus it's nice and challenging. How exactly can I seduce your attention? It's just seems completely impossible because I know little about you except that you want to fend off all the wrong people right off the back.

I'll just say that I'm damn interesting. Have a different point of view. Am capable of being blindingly adorable. And other such things that if I was really super shallow I could list off at nauseum. I don't have a great concrete reason for adding you or probably even at chance at piquing anything inside you, but there never is a worthless effort in trying. And maybe, just maybe this challenge you propose, I pass with flying colors.

If not, then darn it all, it's back to the cage for me.

*Smiles*

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drawma_boy May 26 2005, 00:11:08 UTC
oh my, i had forgotten how BOSSY my bio was! it sounds like it was written by a half-incensed intellectual dominatrix.... or at the very least someone creepily obsessed with his thesaurus!

really though, i ain't that elitist. or that demanding. or that interesting myself, actually. i'm just a bored 9-to-5er living in asia, fumbling his way through life and trying not to leave too many broken hearts in his wake! tehehe!!

but the very fact that you wrote "capable of being blindingly adorable" was enough to pique my "high-and-mighty-ivory-tower" interest. always was a sucker for cunning consonance and alluring alliteration (see, i'm doing it RIGHT NOW! GYAH!!)

of course, if you say you're cute, you gotta be able to back it up with a pic, bud!!

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phoenixmuse May 26 2005, 01:27:32 UTC
Hey Thesauruses or Thesauri--not sure which is correct--are big fun. Sometimes I love using them. But ultimately whatever word pops into my head first when I'm writing I usually go with. I also do have a fondness for alliteration. It was assonance that I never really got the hang of ( ... )

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xeriah May 25 2005, 14:26:14 UTC
Hi, I'm just some random person who found your essay on the JET community. I loved it so much I had to post a link from my LJ to this. I hope you don't mind, but it really meant a lot to me since I've been heavily thinking about applying to JET and going through all the pros and cons it'd entail. I've read it about 3 times now and each time the ending has made me smile... and the section on the haro haro girls has made me cringe. Oy. That's an element of Japanese culture I never considered.

I also recommended that thing you wrote on the Japanese bugs some time ago. That one was hilarious. And just a little disturbing.

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drawma_boy May 25 2005, 23:47:22 UTC
hey, thanks a bunch for your kind words and for giving me a shout-out in your journal..... you've got a HOTSEX icon, which most def wins points in my book ( ... )

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xeriah May 26 2005, 18:14:47 UTC
hahaha Glad you like the icon! I tacked on an Emily Dickinson quote so it becomes poetic hotsex. ;)

Thanks for the words of encouragement! From everything I've read I know there's no way I'd go through one of the big companies (yikes... every post related to one of those is major drama. So, ah yeah, really hope I can impress JET and am doing everything in my power right now to make my resume look as sterling as possible.

Btw, how long have you been over there and are you thinking about renewing your contract? And the other thing I've been wondering... is it hard to make friends? *imagines getting hired by JET only to live a life of abject loneliness*

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