I’m alive, I’m back, and I’m applying for graduate school.
I haven’t been blogging because of above reason, and being out of town visiting my grandmother who does not have internet access, and being on vacation in southern California.
I’ve also been gone because the spam I get in comments was overwhelming, and I haven’t had a […]
I pack my life in stages; final conference and the suit goes in the suitcase, final classes, in go the work clothes. Final parties, toss in my earrings and heels; all the trappings of my small-town urban life boxed and shipped.
I’m left with my raggedest, ill-fitting, badly matched summer survival gear, sandals, a bottle of […]
Tuesday was the day I’ve been anticipating for awhile, ever since I watched the solemn goodbyes of leaving teachers, my first spring here at school.
I knew Speech Marathon Day was coming, so Monday I begged R-chan to help me translate my thoughts. I told her stories, and if she laughed, I had her tell it […]
On Thursday I will finish my final lesson at school, and that will be it for my eigo-no-sensei career. I’ve been making stabs at packing and preliminary sorting, but recently it’s gotten so fucking hot that I can barely think.
This week and next will be packed with goodbye parties, making arrangements for the family trip, […]
Ever since I turned recognizeably female, somewhere in junior high, I have glommed older men like a piece of gum in a sandbox. As an introduction to the world of being picked up, there was the sci fi convention guy, who upon learning my age (14) mumbled that he must be drunker than he’d thought […]
On Saturday I gave a small salon concert. It was my singing debut, and it went well. I sort of still can’t believe I did it, because singing in front of people was not on my to-do list. Ever.
During the past year I’ve been taking unofficial voice lessons from my friend M, a singer and […]
As of today you can’t describe ambient noise or recount the ambience of your recent dinner date in my comments, because my blacklist will nail you as one of the annoying-as-fuck spammers that keeps trying to sell the prescription drug Amb*en 1000 times a day on my blog. Take that goddamn spammers! I need […]
I’m back, I’m rested, and I’m slightly tanned. I spent spring break in Thailand. It was messy, sandy, beachy, lovely, delicious, and above all stinking HOT. It was a nice break, and mostly blurs into a haze of beach and Bangkok traffic.
The first day to Bangkok, arrived at midnight and waited in the airport […]
Ahh, it’s a beautiful day in the inaka. My worst class of the year is officially over, how can I not be happy?
One bit of sad news: the names of 4 or 5 leaving teachers were revealed, among them one of my favorites, a Japanese teacher of English and team-teacher who was always quiet, but […]
15:30
The air is thick. Everyone is waiting today, laughing and chatting like nothing is happening, but I can feel anticipation.
Today the principal went to the central BOE, and soon he will arrive back at school knowing which teachers will go and which will stay.
It’s the same every year, the whole prefecture of teachers plays musical […]