I contacted my company when I couldn't find my insurance card. I looked all over my apartment for it, and I needed it to take a sizable chunk out of the medical bill I incurred from the visit to the clinic. The company assured me they had sent it out to me. And I replied to them with, and I quote ( Read more... )

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I had my first snowball fight since I was a little kid today at Bairin. I was watching the students from the double doors in a foyer off one of the hallways in the school, and turned around to a group of girls and said "I want to have a snowball fight" jumping up and down excitedly. One of the girls mimicked my jumping as I was speaking ( Read more... )

Today I almost cried while teaching a class ( Read more... )

I went to Inaba Junior High School today to start my week in exile from Bairin. Inaba is the junior high school from which my grandmother graduated. It's also the junior high school my cousin attends currently. I've become somewhat of a celebrity, though this time, it began even before I entered the school. People knew of me through stories ( Read more... )

I really feel like I'm making a vast improvement in what I've set my mind on. Today I looked out the window from my classroom and saw students playing kendo on the second floor of the building across the courtyard. When I leave school to attend the gym across the river, I can hear the volley ball girls letting out that unusual chant-like wail ( Read more... )

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