Wakayama certainly is a rocking little prefecture of late. A typhoon last Monday, two earthquakes Sunday night, another typhoon on its way today (school has been canceled) and then during morning staff meeting, yet another quake. Someone’s got something to say, that’s for sure. Now, just gotta see how long before I can go home. I’ll never understand why, if it’s considered unsafe for students to come to school on the morning of a typhoon, why is it consdered ok to keep teachers at school until the last possible minute? Surely its just as unsafe for us as for the students?!?
Nishiwaki JHS. Let me count the ways:
1. I love that _all_ your staff talk to me
2. I love that your students are not afraid to approach me
3. I love that your VP gives me a huge grin whenever I see him, however many times a day.
4. I love that all your teachers joke and laugh and have a sense of fun
5. I love that you were the only school to ever invite me to an enkai, and then paid for me.
6. I love that you give me a head of english who will help me with any problems or questions.
7.I love that you sit me next to the head of english, not in a different staffroom.
8. I love that your students aren’t academic. Like them I have things I would rather do on my weekends than attend enlgish speech contests.
9.Most of all, I love that you send me home at 1:30 on a Friday afternoon and tell me not to come back until Tuesday. Despite the tests on Monday, there are still two periods of classes, yet Marutani deliberately schedules me nothing and tells me to take the day off (just so long as I promise to stamp my attendence sheet and not to the BOE. *finger to pursed lips* Shhhhhh)
How do I get to stay at this school?!!?!!
It’s 7:35, people are calling to say they’re coming and what started as a few people over for cocktails (cos I have vanilla vodka which needs sharing!) looks like it’s developed into a proper party-like do. Last reckoning 6 had changed to 19. There’s something to this last minute organising!
Mamachan gave me a whole bag full of plums leftover from making plum wine…Mmm..the best bit of the plum wine, a whole bag of!
address books are for wimps
I suck
please post your snail mail addy again
no address book at work and searching my mail is too hard
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*chuckle*
203 Numata Manshon
3-3 Higashinunoe-cho
Wakayama-shi
JAPAN 640-8066
How’s your work inbox for space…I took LOTs of tigger pics just for you…..
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melb uni will bounce anypost over about a meg – so should be fine as long as you don’t attach too many images per email
it might be 5mg – but dont trust that, stick with keeping emails attachs under a mg.
tiggrr tiggrr tiggrr
now i have to go find an envelope
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*barely contains excitement at prospect of air mail evelope in mailbox soon*
*bounce*
After very little sleep – typhoon finally quieted down a little around 3:30ish ( thank-you so much whitmans_child for the phone company 🙂 – I wake to a newly developed UTI (OUCH – I thought that was s’posed to happen after lots n lots of sex. Feeling ripped off here!) and discover I’m not on the electoral roll. Huh, what?!? How did that happen? Now, not only have to arange postal vote or going to consulate, but have to arrange enrollment as well, to be received back home by Tuesday. Thank heaven I know some Aussies here who should be able to witness my form. Off to net cafe now to print it out. Not how I’d planned to spend the day.
They went through the electoral rolls just before the state election a couple of years ago and took everyone off who had moved and not updated address
I found this out when i went to vote
If you are overseas when the election is on, you don’t have to vote… Not that I’m saying you shouldn’t, just that you don’t have to.
Aahh..thank-you. That would be why..I don’t think I ever updated to the coburg address, and of course my glenlyon rd address no longer exists..not as a house anyways. Have printed off enrollment form and am about to e-mail the aussies I know here to see if they are elligible to enrol, and hence can witness mine for me.
The very helpful (no sarcasm here – she really was) lady on the AEC phones advised me that I don’t have to vote as I’m overseas. But I want to, dammit!
Yes, that is noce to know, but I really want my say!
understandable, see most recent post. i was upset at missing out last state election. that said I was also upset at the fact they refused to provide voting facilities at earthcore (10,000 ppl event)
as the election clashed. But will happily provide voting facilities at large sporting events. Who cares if hippys and ravers dont vote hey?
although the green were running a bus from the earthcore site into the nearest local town 🙂
windy windy weather
Heard about the Typhoon. How bad were you hit? Hope that things get better for you HUGS
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It hit pretty bad – worse so far this year. I heard some people died in this one, though I suspect that would be further south in the prefecture. Lovely sunny day today though!
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Oh, i’ve been meaning to e-mail you…my Kyoto sister is in Melbourne right now, until Sep 7 I think – I am so so so upset I’m not there as well right now. But I was wondering if you had some time if you’d mind hooking up with her for an afternoon, maybe go to the zoo or for coffee and cake or something. I’m not sure what her english level is like – she had basic english when she left last year and she’s just spent the last year in Australia so I imagine it’s improved.
Anyway I’m gonna call her and see how she’s doing, and if you’d be up for it I’ll mention it to her and pass her number to you. If not, that’s cool too….I think she’s with friends. I’m just so disappointed she’s there and I’m not, for so long I’ve wanted her to come to Melbourne so I could show her around. Ah well, that’s life huh!
Save the chiiiiiiiiiiiildrennnnnnnn!!!!!!!
Nuh uh
Save the Teachers, I say!
Tis ok now tho, I’m safe. The rest of the teachers are still stuck at school in meetings and whatnot though. Admittedly, they have cars and won’t be stranded if trains stop running, but still, wouldn’t want to be driving in this wind either.
What next? Godzilla?
It wouldn’t surprise me.
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Gawd, humans. We’ll live anywhere, won’t we. Damn optimistic bunch we are. Stay safe!
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Oh I am. I’m tucked up in my apartment, with new stack of dvds from Trace (catwoman! Hooray!) and food to last, oh at least until tonight! Here is where I’m staying today. *nods head decisively*
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Good good. Don’t forget, as they sing on Avenue Q, “the Internet is for porn”.
Dang! And here I am back in the States missing all the fun!
yup…you missed pelting rain at 4am, plus anothere small earthquake. It’s really quite crazy here of late