This has become a the depository of random snapshots of my life. Yet, I still feel the need to dump updates on it just so I can look back months later and appreciate what I had to share ( Read more... )

February 2010 marked my return to Akiruno City. It also ended my time with the American Heart Association. What an amazing group of (mostly) women I was priviledged to work with ( Read more... )

So the Akiruno Student Cultural Exchange has been rescheduled for February. We're all staying at the log cabins owned by Mr. Ueda (who's son Shigeru was part of the 3rd exchange). Unfortunately, fear and threat of H1N1 has reduced our experience in Akiruno from a 10 day home and school exchange program for our students to 10 days in Japan visiting ( Read more... )

These days I feel respected as part of a team in the Communications and Marketing Department at the American Heart Association's Framingham office. It's something that I've truly been lacking in the professional realm since I returned from Japan ( Read more... )

I have a new car. My very first brand new car: 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt. Black Betty is her name.

I have a new part-time job. I'm interning at the American Heart Association with their communications and marketing department.

I'm hoping these are steps to more new things. :)

The delegation is arriving in a few days and I will be a busy little bee bussing around, entertaining and keeping track of our Japanese visitors (and everyone else who is determined to take them everywhere ( Read more... )

So in an amazing twist of arms and fate I will be entirely involved with the Marlborough-Akiruno Cultural Exchange this fall and chaperoning next spring. Awesome. I can't wait ( Read more... )

I just made a yummy strawberry, banana, orange, cranberry, raspberry homemade smoothy.
It was delicious.

The job interview process is one of the biggest tests of self-confidence ( Read more... )

I really just dropped a pretty penny on a ticket and I'm headed overseas at the end of July to see my munchkins and friends over in Akiruno City ( Read more... )