-
Crazy Eigo
Here's something fun for all you word game lovers out there that was passed through the prefecture by another Aomori JET (look alive, people, 'cause that means I didn't write this). Sure to send any English speaker's ego flying--honestly, how do we get through even a day in this language???
I've heard some of these before, myself, but there are some ( Read more... ) -
PITA Marko
Exciting news, everyone! I have a new member of my household! ^^
Aomori JETs have an online notice board called the Aomori List Serve. When I first arrived here, my designated "big sister" (Becky, a semi-nearby ALT) urged me to sign up for it, as it's the best method of prefecture-wide JET communication. You can learn about events, post problems, ( Read more... ) -
Gaijin Life in Aomori Fall
So I've been writing a lot about life as an ALT. In fact, all of my correspondence over the last 3 months (with the sole exception of my Elizabethan Insults insert :) has been a "Life on the JET Program" testament, which is all well and good...except there are, of course, other things going on over here. I've decided, then, that I should branch out ( Read more... ) -
School Festival Pics
Here are some pics to match the School Festival post of earlier!
Unfortunately, the pics I have from Kanita are all in hard copy. I'll put them up if I ever get my hands on a scanner (or the pics taken by the Kanita teachers), but until then, here are some good ones from Tairadate! ^^
( Read more... ) -
School Festivals
A message to my readers regarding 2 points before we begin:
1)I have received a request to start cut-tagging my posts (a magic LJ method of shortening this initial viewing window), since my updates are flooding my friends' "Friends update" pages. (a big thanx to our dear Peaches for bringing this to my attention ^^;) So. Below I shall leave my ( Read more... ) -
OPERATION: APPLE PIE
Hello all,
First, thanks to everyone for your support after my rant post about the field trip fiasco. Though it's no secret that people across the globe experience coworker issues, it's still nice to be reminded I'm not crazy for thinking I should be included in the general goings-on in the office.
As I know some of you are wondering, I have, since ( Read more... ) -
Mel is pissed.
Hello. Welcome to my angry rant ( Read more... ) -
BEHOLD! The Rant of UTTER BOREDOM
TO MY READERS: For those of you following the blog update e-mail on teaching, please see the entry below ("Teaching at Last"). This one here is my second entry of the day and holds very little relevance to anything but my annoyance at having nothing to do today ( Read more... ) -
Teaching at last
So...upon setting the topic for this post, I realized I'm a good month behind in my blogging... *sigh ( Read more... )
