July 2009
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First post in Japan! (decidedly)
Sitting in my room at the Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku, Tokyo!!
American Airlines has really stepped up their game. They had some great indie movies on the flight here like Sunshine Cleaning, and The Great Buck Howard, as well as I Love You Man and Monsters vs. Aliens. Plus some 30 Rock and How I Met Your Mother. It all made the flight go quite quickly and comfortably for me.
I did, however,...
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Last post in the United States (probably)
I’m leaving for the airport in a matter of minutes now for my flight to Japan. It’s been a pretty crazy week, packing up my whole life’s worth of stuff to put either in a suitcase or in storage, but somehow I managed to get everything done and here I am!
I’m SO excited for this year, but I’m SO dreading the flight. I hate flying. I really want this next part to be...
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WatchTeaser trailer for Ricky Gervais’ and Stephen Merchant’s Cemetery Junction
awesomeawesomeawesome
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Home to one of the 100 best fragrances in Japan.
I have officially received my placement for the JET Program!!!
**DRUMROLL**
I will be in Toyama Prefecture (富山県), in the city of Kurobe (黒部市)!!!
I don’t know much about it, but it’s basically in the middle of the coast of Honshu (the main island) on the Sea of Japan side (the side facing China), it’s a town of about 42,000 people, and it looks beautiful. It is also home to...
June 2009
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"I know someone who did that!"
One of the interesting things I’m discovering about moving to Japan to teach English is that everybody knows someone who has “done that.” Although usually they don’t actually know the person, so much as they just know of the person, and usually by “done that,” they actually mean “done something vaguely similar to that.” Even so, it’s always...