It seems that I am on my way to becoming significantly less anti-social than I have been here in Gifu. It is definately an interesting feeling. There is a big part of me that is really excited at the prospect of socializing, but there is still that tiny, nagging part of me that is warning me to not get my hopes up because things could always turn ( Read more... )

Three cheers for the day off! Hip hip HOORAY!!! Being the consumer whore that I am, I spent my day shopping. I went to Nagoya and explored Osu-Kannon before going to Sakae where I enjoyed some KFC, picked up the new Economist and a new harlequin and just walked around and had a blast ( Read more... )

LOL, I enjoyed writing that subject just because of the reactions people gave in my head. I can be so damn evil sometimes it isn't even funny! Well, I think it's funny anyway. :) So, yes, on to Part I of Marie's Two Part Adventure(!!!), The Fetus Story ( Read more... )

Well, as some of you already know and a few of you have guessed, I am once again, in the grand tradition of Marie-Living-In-Japan-ness, sick. Back at Gaidai, I got sick in the first semester, mostly because I am stupid and danced in the freezing rain at Kyoto Station (fun day, eh, Angela?). At that time, I was taken to the hospital with a ( Read more... )

I have had such a day. It started off so wonderfully, too. I had such high hopes. I even danced on my way to the station this morning. I guess it goes to show you that the best laid plans are the ones that are targeted first by The Enemy. Can you tell you where this is going? I bet you can ( Read more... )

Six English-language teachers at Nova held for alleged drug possession

Gotta love it. NOVA is going to flip out over this. I can hear it now: random screenings, interrogations, coworkers sent in to rat you out... it's freakin' 1984 all over again. :)

Today we were under orders not to talk about it in lessons, not that anyone asked about it.

Well, as usual, I did not get my standard Monday/Tuesday off this week. Karen is moving to Shibuya this week so I worked for her on Monday so she could pack. I had to work at Ogaki and it was such an annoyingly easy day: out of the eight lessons I was scheduled to work I only taught four. Gotta love it. I wish I had been at Rio because at least ( Read more... )

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I really am trying really hard to just be indifferent about my job and just keep my head down and get through the next few months, but apparently that is just not good enough for NOVA ( Read more... )

Yesterday and today have felt like some kind of special holiday, like when you get a three-day weekend and a snow day at the same time: completely unexpected but completely amazing. Have you ever seen those movies where the heroine just starts smiling for now reason, raises her hands to the sky, and spins around in a circle? I totally did that ( Read more... )