( Dining Delights of Guam's Pricey Tourist Traps )

Greetings, I have returned from Guam! (Yes, Guam.) And get this: I actually managed to keep some semblance of a diary while I was there! Which means most of my blog entries for the trip are already written! Wooo! So, without further ado...

( Guam: Backstory and Arrival )

Ok, so I realize that I'm probably ranter # 382940291885 in regard to the Avatar movie, but in the off-chance (the REALLY off-chance) that there's still someone out there who hasn't thought of this yet, I feel I've gotta get this out. It annoys me, ya see, that a movie making SO much money and with SO much influence on the populous can manage to do ( Read more... )

( Parts of My Day...etc. :) )

Hello all!

So...after a long silence, I'm back in Japan again! Most of August was spent back in Florida (after a really, really shitty last week in Sotogahama--did not shed a single tear when I left or have any lingering feelings of wanting to go back whatsoever). ( To the overview of my time at home... )

I have now officially been to China. :)

How was it?

Well...I guess you could say my expectations for this trip were pretty high, since I've wanted to visit the country since I was old enough to pronounce the name of it. Unfortunately, not everything turned out to be as awesome as I was hoping, but I think that was the tour company's fault. Meaning, ( Read more... )

So here's what happened today to set me off.

Due to the fact that my successor and I are both going to be here in the same town for a week (between the time that she gets here and I take off), we arranged it so that she would come and stay in my house. The plan was, I spend my days packing while she's gone from early morning to late afternoon ( Read more... )

( I think I put the fear of God into my supervisor today... )

Ok, so I had one of those love-God, praise-Jesus, don't-you-wish-you-were-more-religious-like-all-the-happy-people-in-the-world chain mails waiting for me in my mailbox when I got to work this morning. Normally I skim, roll my eyes, and delete these things, but this one really bothered me. It reads as follows (I have elected to leave all the ( Read more... )

Paid my tuition for the Intensive Japanese Language Program today! 7,000 bucks later, I'm ELATED to be financially committed to moving to Kyoto. Wooo!

In related news, I have tracked down a lead on an apartment. It's a guest house that's only a 15 or so minute bike ride from the school. Shared kitchen, bathroom, laundry, and living room facilities, ( Read more... )