Here's a link to my blog about what I did over my long weekends. :)

http://hidaadventures.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/long-weekend-travels/

If you want to read about what I've been up to lately with the sports festivals at my schools, you can read about it at my Japan blog ( Read more... )

Last Monday, classes started! Work is a lot more interesting when there's more to do than sitting in the office all day ( Read more... )

Here's a link to my most recent post on my Japan blog. It's about what I've been up to recently, festivals and there's a video tour of my apartment.http://hidaadventures.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/what-ive-been-up-to-and-my-apartment/

My modem arrived today so I have internet finally!!!  :DD

Here's the latest post in my Japan blog:
http://hidaadventures.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/49/

I'll likely start copying and pasting them here when I get more settled in but I'm not sure... there are lots of things ( Read more... )

I got pictures of my apartment last night!  ^_^  It looks really nice.  You can hold your mouse over an image to see what each picture is. (just what the BOE titled each picture when they sent them to me)  It’s a nice big apartment, one of the perks of living in the inaka.  :)   I’m excited ’cause it looks like I’ll have indoor parking ( Read more... )

It's now almost 12 days 'til I leave.  :O  I have a 'Japan corner' in the living room now with my suitcases and stuff I'm bringing.  It's making it infinitely more real.  This is crazy.  I mean, I've lived abroad for study abroad, but nothing like this before.  I've always lived with my family, in a dorm/campus house/campus apartment or with a host ( Read more... )

Just a quick update that I've changed the link to the blog I will use when I'm in Japan.  Here's the new one:

hidaadventures.wordpress.com

I finally got my placement!  :)  I am going to be living in Hida City in Gifu Prefecture.  It's between Kyoto/Osaka and Tokyo, but (being very very rural) it still takes a little while to get to either and the nearest shinkansen station is 3.5 hours (I think) away.  But still, it's in central Japan where I wanted to be so I'm happy with it.  I'm ( Read more... )

I'm going insane waiting for my JET placement.  :/  No new news and the one official person who I saw post on the message board said that they don't know when either and it really could be any day now.  It's incredibly frustrating.  >>