tissue time: bye bye higashi

Leaving school was like ripping off a bandaid.  I’ve known about my last day for weeks (technically years) and especially since my last round of classes started, it had been hovering over me, and every time I walked through the halls, I thought about how I’d have to walk through them for the last time [...]

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namaste

Well, today was not the day I expected when I woke up this morning.  I went to school, business as usual, but little did I know I’d get to enjoy more language fuckery than you can shake a stick at, and an intercultural meeting that (cheesy as it is) I can never forget.  The first [...]

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love in the land of the rising sun

I don’t really talk much about my personal life here (why? cos its nun of ur beezwax ;) ) but I did want to say something today because it’s an important day for me. Today makes a year of my boyfriend and me being together – our relationship has gone through a lot of changes [...]

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aww. AWW!!!

OMG! I just got christmas cards from my second years in class one!!! OMG :) They’re so cute, they all say “to Heke” on the front and things like of course “Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” inside but also “I like your lessons” and “Thank you for your enjoyable lessons” and “I <3 [...]

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a light show and english

After Japanese class on Monday night one of the teachers randomly wanted us to take us to see some houses that were lit up in Ichinomiya.   So we piled into who knows how many cars and drove like half an hour away to look at three houses that had christmas lights up – of course [...]

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