Rest assured, good readers... I am still here... just that a lot has happened since I last made a decent post, and the task of sorting through the interesting bits and jotting it down seems to be a daunting one. I suppose when I have a sufficient amount of time, I'll camp out in front of the ol' laptop and smash it all out, but until then, just take a minor update and be grateful! ("Mooooore???")
For the moment, I can tell you that things are going splendidly! I was recently spurred to do a little more for that whole pesky "Exchange" part of my job, but really the spurring was what I needed to finally kick into gear ideas that have been floating around for the almost 6 months I've been here. Anyway, since I'm surviving the winter with no trouble, I'm feeling more able to shake off the frost and get it in gear. As a fellow ALT told me (as he was told by another fellow ALT), it takes about 6 months to get used to being in Japan. I think I'm there, so I'm looking at everything with an, "Okay, now that that's over, what can I do now?"
Things have returned to "normal" now that Anna's gone home (*tear*), soooo that means I get to look forward to more observation classes, special ALT meetings, and Gun activities. But that also means I get to look forward to mundane teacher's meetings I don't understand, students that drive me crazy, and classes that could go better (Though today... I made my sannensei into tanks... mwahahaha... good lesson). It might balance out, so whatev. :D
Anyway, I must be off. Soon, I'll get some substance in here!! And I've got some videos on the back burner... and a few more pictures.. A SMORGASBORD OF GOODIES!!!! :D
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Happy New Year and so on and so on...
So, a quick update because... drumroll... ANNA'S HERE!! Woo! She came a few days after Christmas and will be here for a few more weeks. This, of course, explains the long absence from blogging. "Hey, Anna... umm... occupy yourself for an hour or so while I think of random things to ramble about on the internet." Yeah... no.
Anyway, the main point of this post is to alert you all to a MASSIVE photo dump in my photobucket account (398 photos, to be exact... don't you LOVE slideshows?? ^_^). Nothing is labelled or titled since it's incredibly annoying to use Photobucket's labelling system... but soon, I'll label a few key photos to help explain what's going on in the photos around them.
A lot of the pictures are older stuff I might have talked about, but never put photos up for... and a lot of the recent ones are of trips Anna and I have taken. :D
We went out to Beppu and went on a tour of the Hells out there (more explanation and video pending...). Anna got to try out an Onsen for the first time (Hyoten Onsen (hot spring) in the pictures). We had a traditional Japanese New year; ringing a bell at a buddhist temple, then going to the "first shrine visit of the year" (or... ever) at a Shinto Shrine downtown. Anna and I also just got back from Nagasaki. That was a pretty cool trip... there are pictures there from Glover Garden, Oura Church (the oldest Catholic church in Japan), the Peace Park, and Hypocenter Park (you know... where the, uh... bomb went off...). I would have gotten some pictures from inside the A-Bomb museum, but they don't allow them, soooooo... sorry. (Though I did ninja a few videos... shh, don't tell anyone)
Well, good luck plowing through the mass of pictures. Hopefully this appeases those of you who I've kept promising them to... heh heh... (oh crap don't lynch me).
Anyway, the main point of this post is to alert you all to a MASSIVE photo dump in my photobucket account (398 photos, to be exact... don't you LOVE slideshows?? ^_^). Nothing is labelled or titled since it's incredibly annoying to use Photobucket's labelling system... but soon, I'll label a few key photos to help explain what's going on in the photos around them.
A lot of the pictures are older stuff I might have talked about, but never put photos up for... and a lot of the recent ones are of trips Anna and I have taken. :D
We went out to Beppu and went on a tour of the Hells out there (more explanation and video pending...). Anna got to try out an Onsen for the first time (Hyoten Onsen (hot spring) in the pictures). We had a traditional Japanese New year; ringing a bell at a buddhist temple, then going to the "first shrine visit of the year" (or... ever) at a Shinto Shrine downtown. Anna and I also just got back from Nagasaki. That was a pretty cool trip... there are pictures there from Glover Garden, Oura Church (the oldest Catholic church in Japan), the Peace Park, and Hypocenter Park (you know... where the, uh... bomb went off...). I would have gotten some pictures from inside the A-Bomb museum, but they don't allow them, soooooo... sorry. (Though I did ninja a few videos... shh, don't tell anyone)
Well, good luck plowing through the mass of pictures. Hopefully this appeases those of you who I've kept promising them to... heh heh... (oh crap don't lynch me).
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