So, I haven't updated for a little while. Mainly because I haven't had much of interest to say, even though I've been incredibly busy. I went to Osaka at the weekend to see a few friends (probably for the last time) and that was really cool. We went to the aquarium and saw all the cool fish, including the famous whale shark. Very cool. Then we went ( Read more... )

Sooo, I'm having quite a constructive day. I've paid my water and sewage bill by "furikomi" (bank transfer) and been trying to sort out a load of crap to do with my flights home. I've also avoided any lessons so far and am in the process of filling out some paperwork. Pretty good ( Read more... )

Picture the scene: It's 6am and I'm just finishing a phone conversation with my dad when I think I see something out of the corner of my eye. Assuming it's probably just a symptom of sleep deprivation after only having about 9 hours in the last three nights, I look over to check. Sure enough, right there sitting in the middle of the doorway to my ( Read more... )

Well, another successful day at work with no lessons (and it's 3:30)!! What's more, tomorrow I only have to go in until 11:30 and Wednesday is another day off entirely! I better be careful or I might overload on the amount of work I'm doing this week ( Read more... )

Great day yesterday. Three lessons in the morning which went really well, then I did rice planting with all the students and teachers in a field behind the school. It was great fun. I did it last year too, and the kids seem to be so much more interested in talking to me when we're out of class. I guess it could be because they're more relaxed and ( Read more... )

After yesterday's surprisingly good day, today is proving not so good. Last night I had a dream about my ex-girlfriend from my first year of Uni, Becky. It was odd because when she broke up with me she was a bit of a bitch and although in the dream nothing in particular happened other than us just being together, it reminded me of all the good ( Read more... )

Oh, and I forgot to mention before... We had our health check things yesterday at school, which was a very long and quite boring process (although I was told by the other teachers that acording to my results my eyesight is apparently very good). Anyway, one part of the health check is a urine test. I'd just finished the whole thing and was walking ( Read more... )

I'm having such a good day, and I'm at Chizu! I can't believe it. Maybe it's partly because I know I'll be leaving soon or maybe it's because I spent about four hours last night drinking Armagnac and smoking cigars with my friend. In any case, it's been a really good day so far ( Read more... )

Sooo... I'm really bored and trying to think of something to write. Having a good day though. Part of the trade-off with teaching less at Chizu was supposed to be that my Fridays at Saji (Junior High) would be upped from three classes to five. We're now two full months into the school year, with only about a month and a half to go, and I haven't ( Read more... )

I took a quiz and apparently from "Aden's Run" I am...


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