So, I'm job searching and I realized there's yet another page besides facebook/gmail/blitzmail/perezhilton/nytimes that I can waste precious job searching time on. WOot ( Read more... )

  I had a great day today.  My classes went well, I got to spend time outside in the lovely sun cheering for my students who were running 2 km, and I got to talk and play soccer with some kids after school which rocked.  I am remembering most of their names already which gives me brownie points when I talk to them, and my favorite students at this ( Read more... )

 I haven't posted in a couple of months... Many things have happened recently. I visited Detroit/Chicago/New York during the christmas break.  I realized many things ( Read more... )

January- Guess I’m a democrat after all…

February- -The weekend before last I sang in a concert in front of tons o' japanese people who thought I sounded great.\

March- I don't know if I posted or not about how I signed on for another year...but I did :).

April- Wow, it has been a long time since I updated.

March- I know I need to talk about Malaysia ( Read more... )

  I have been back in the United States for about 18 hours now, and already I am amused by the things that I forgot about America, some good, some bad ( Read more... )

  Ten years ago I started listening to Blink 182. At that time I was awkward, super self-conscious, about to go to high school, and thinking how the song "What's My Age Again" was awesome, regardless of the fact that I didn't know what sodomy was and was definitely not interested in prank phone calls. The age 23 seemed so incredibly far away... Now ( Read more... )

  Today I had an awesomely awesome day :).  I was busy all day doing class stuff and checking papers and basically not being bored out of my mind which is cool like whoa.  I had 3 classes, two of which were for the first graders. The game that I came up with was really fun, and the teacher complimented me on it after class as well, saying it was ( Read more... )

  So, I spent two of my past few weeks in a Japanese hospital.  My eye problem from the summer flared back up on my culture day at school. I went to the doctor, he looked at my eye and was like, yea....you're going to have to stay in the hospital for up to two weeks. And...you're going to have to have a shot directly to the eye two times a day ( Read more... )

   Here in Japan we have a million public holidays which means basically a three-day weekend every other weekend. Unfortunately, I had too much fun on my first three day weekend after I got paid, which means the rest of my weekends are going to be/ have been, cheap ( Read more... )

  The gym after lunch...is a madhouse. There are kids everywhere playing basketball, handball (kickball except using your hand), dodgeball, jump rope, hula hooping...all on top of each other. I was asked to join in my current favourite sport (dodgeball) by some 5th graders yesterday. I agreed wholeheartedly, then spent the next half an hour trying ( Read more... )