Saturday [the 体育祭] was pretty boring. =\ Oh, well. I watched a bunch of it from the balcony of the teaching room so that I could be out of the sun and not in a crowd of parents and siblings. x_x; There were some really interesting activities which I'd try to explain in text but would fail at doing, so I won't bother trying. They were interesting, ( Read more... )

I added a photography section to my website yesterday, so if anyone would like to take a look and tell me what they think, I'd be appreciative. : ) Also, tell me if you think the titles are dumb, as I came up with them as I made each page. So not a lot of thought went into em. :x

While I'm here, I might as well let you know what the rest of my time ( Read more... )

I had a terrible dream last night. I dreamed that I left Japan, but I'd forgotten sending back a ton of stuff, but I'd already spent all the money on the plane ticket I used to get back to the US. But so a ton of my stuff was still in Japan, since I'd forgotten to send it back. Like I'd thought I'd put everything in my luggage, but that was not the ( Read more... )

So due to many recent realizations, I'm now trying to get the hell out of dodge [Japan] as soon as possible. Some of the realizations were ( Read more... )

The apartment stuff is fine now, it seems. They were able to get one month's rent from my bank account finally, and a guy from the guarantor company came by my apt today to collect the other month's rent in cash. Goodbye, a thousandish dollars. Next month, the bank stuff should work again, so I don't have to worry about that stuff. Another monetary ( Read more... )

I've just been handed another reason to want to drop Japan like some hot tenpura. When I switched over to a normal rent system thing, I paid for the end of June (and I think July?) in advance, plus all sorts of special charges. For the future months, however, they wanted to be able to just take the rent out from my bank account directly each month ( Read more... )

I've been here for almost 2 weeks now, so I've got a little bit over a week left before my return. The longer I'm here, the more Japan seems like a distant, magical memory; like my living and being there took place outside of reality's time and space. A really fun adventure, but I'm not aching to get back like I was when I'd first arrived in NY. It ( Read more... )

Homygosh. I've done a million things, so I'm going to try and listify this update [as best I can ( Read more... )

Instead of being super-productive my last day in Japan, packing, getting everything ready and then going to sleep super-early, I opted instead to stay up all night packing and getting ready slowly but surely.  That all worked out pretty well. I didn't have time to get a haircut, and I forgot to pack my drawing tablet. =\ So I won't be able to do ( Read more... )

Dinner with Alex was a good time. I had waaaaay too much sushi and we were there for 3 hours. @_@;;; It was fun, though the flirtation continued.. >_>;; I had to ride through crazy storms to get there, and then I was soaked. But oh well ( Read more... )