kousaku and i have less than a month in France. we're coming back next year but i'm especially sad to be leaving now that the whole country has exploded into summer. brittany is notoriously rainy but the clouds have finally lifted. i try to keep the windows open as long as i can because the air is so fragrant with flowers. oh france ( Read more... )

like clockwork it's taken me seven months (nearly) to get used to life in france. when i was living in japan i pined for my life back across the pacific until about seven months in, around the same time the cherry blossoms sat like pink clouds in the trees and the chill in the air was gone ( Read more... )

im really happy. a little bit lazy too. and i live in france. and i'm crazy about the man i wake up next to. and i dont have very much money and i dont have very many things. and im really happy.

le monde m'appartient.

man! i got into france! i've got a 9 month contract to start in october teaching elementary students in rennes. the elementary position calls for decent french speakers which means my french is going to get so good! man! i've heard wonderful lovely things about rennes. it's the birthplace of crepes! you know how i feel about crepes.

i'm in japan. i really am. it feels like home ( Read more... )

i spent the weekend trying to solve a rubik's cube and I just finished it.

i'm so nerdy it hurts.

it's 1:30 and my room mate's snoring is keeping me up. i wish he had someone to wake him up and roll him over. i wish that for both of us. then he'd have someone who cared about him, who'd want to sleep next to him every night, who felt comfortable giving him a sharp elbow when he needed it and i would get a good night's sleep ( Read more... )

i love reading my brother's journal entries. he has a lovely way with words. i'm happy to have a brother like him. he doesn't take shit.

update:

i slept in past my alarm. *rolls eyes at self*

and now it's time for swimming! :D

one of the owners had a talk with me today. it turns out he heard through the grapevine that i had a hell of a time on sunday due to his brother and partner (as i posted earlier). he apologized on behalf of his lunatic brother and wanted to make sure i wasnt leaving because i'm an asset and they love me. i told him that i appreciated the gesture ( Read more... )