First year status: Complete

[imma_holiday]

So Japan is now in between the rainy season and the typhoon season. It's muggy, and it's hot, and soon the cicadas will be loud enough to drown out an entire conversation, but you know what else? As of Tuesday, I have finished my first year of teaching with JET

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[britkit27]

おめでとう! :D first year complete~ Also, fun fact, you'll be leaving JET just as I'm trying to join it XD maybe I'll get your spot. Any idea what you'll try and do afterwards? I assume you're sticking around Japan?

Also DDDD: to the lack of baka pair cosplay at Heso Matsuri, though I suppose if they wont let you out w/o stockings at a cosplay event they won't let you show your bare stomach at a festival but still :l not cool.

[imma_holiday]

Thank you! 8D
That kinda happened to me when I entered JET, actually! I coincidentally took the place of a girl who had been in my Japanese classes in America. It was pretty sweet. So yeah, if you request Gunma as where you want to be placed, then it could very well happen. XD

And yes, I plan to stay in Japan after JET, but to move to Tokyo. I want to try and get a job with some sort of costuming company for either theater or tv. If not that, then there's a chance that my degree could help me land a job in graphic design, and if all else fails, my fallback is to sell my soul to the comic industry and be an assistant to a manga-ka for at least a while. I want to get out of teaching if at all possible.

It's sad that we couldn't do Baka Pair this weekend, but at least we got to pimp some Kamen Rider W. I even wore my Windscale hat~.
Our plan is to do a lot of Dream Live Shitenhouji at Comiket in August and for me to flash my belly there instead.

[britkit27]

XD awesome. Well at least I know where I'd be living. That'd be kinda fun.

:D yaaaaay~ Those all sound like good plans though I hope the costuming thing works out - if you can make Esmeralda's dress you can totally manage anything the Japanese costuming industry throws your way >>

Hat ♥~ I can't remember, did we get a picture of me in your hat when I did that Akiko cosplay? if not, we should've. XD And good :D those costumes should be made and worn somewhere, at least XD

[imma_holiday]

I think it would be in the town's best interest for you to replace me, since you'd have an easy time adjusting to a place that you're already marginally familiar with, and me having a friend in Kanra would give me good reason to come by and visit with all my old peers. 8D It's a shame that the BoE can't request JETs by name. You'd be prefect! XD

I try to make costumes at a professional level already. I just hope that being self-taught doesn't somehow bite me in the ass and screw me over for doing the sort of job that I really want. :x

I don't remember any pictures of you in the hat...Guess that's a bit of unfinished business that we'll have to remedy once you get back here. 8D
I've actually finished my shirt already, except for putting on the buttons. I need the stuff for the headband, and Paula needs to make her shirt, but we're already well on our way to having the outfits finished. ^^b