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Love.
With all the negatives, fear, and hate going around in the news, I too became worried and angry. But then I remembered: fighting hate with anger doesn't work. It perpetuates the cycle. So instead, I'm going to fight with love. If I see someone burning up with hatred inside, I am going to love them. Because I do. I love. Regardless of who a person ( Read more... ) -
No Second Class Citizens
My friend Sarah is an American ( Read more... ) -
back in the US
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Story!
Dark, sad, and painted in grays, but I enjoy it, and I hope you all do too :-)
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Holy salted carp I only have a few months left! I don't really want to leave, but I know it's time... I've finally found people at work I get along with all right, and I am enjoying teaching... oh and there's that pretty girl (not at work, haha ( Read more... ) -
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Erm, I feel a little odd posting this, since I usually only need to get the negative things out on my journal... but it seems I am being too negative here soo I am going to list the positive ones ( Read more... ) -
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I've been a lot of places, done a lot of things. I look back and I remember what I lost; I remember what I gained. I don't know if one place was better than another, if one experience was more or less positive; but I do know that I had to leave if I wanted to experience something new ( Read more... ) -
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So... Let's see... Moving to kawasaki on my own, assuming this rental agency gets off its butt and sends me the contract. Friend's looking for a new job in Joetsu. Ummm everyone's leaving all at once at my job, so they're kind of working us to death until then. Also, bosses are really really angry at me because I pointed out that they were breaking ( Read more... ) -
Seiha English School
If you ever want to work in Japan, be very, very careful who you work for. Eikaiwas are generally a bad bunch (there are probably some good ones out there... Somewhere...) but Seiha has really proven to be one of the worst. Here's why:
1) Long travel times. They have their foreign teachers working at multiple schools, and those schools can be very ( Read more... ) -
god my life is crazy
...it is so crazy. Good crazy and bad crazy. I am so tired I'm just going to spout it on my lj page in no particular order. I travel hours and hours to work, so often that the conductors have gotten very, very used to my face... I just got back from a very nice 4-day vacation in Tokyo, where I bought tons of Slayers stuff (and stuff from other ( Read more... )