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wow! congrats on your acceptances! :]

I think it's only reckless to stay if you have no idea what you want to do. (like me... oops.) you've obviously got your act together. although I don't...

none taken!

sorry, I should have specified that it wasn't a cure-all. I just contributed that thinking that if you're sick, any relief would be good, I suppose.

I've been told that gargling with green tea helps. green tea is chock full of antioxidants. somehow gargling and keeping it in your mouth/throat for longer than the time it just takes to swallow is...

I'm going with ALTs in my prefecture, as well as some from Gifu and Toyama, apparently. I'm really excited!

anyone who has been before have any suggestions of where to go? I hear there is a...

ahahaha was it Fukui? :D

I was told that those tickets are available whenever students have vacation, so that would include winter break.

some document will be returned to you by 4:30 at the latest because that's when school is over/that person will be free?

I know next to nothing about this stuff, so I was wondering if you could tell me if the Airport Express/Extreme would work if my NTT internet is connected through... PPPoE? I have to manually turn...

I know a girl who had to get an emergency root canal and they didn't know she wanted anesthesia. apparently that's optional...

make sure you ask for it!

agreed. and it's not even winter yet. the wind chill was nuts last night! D:

holy crap, any horror stories? did some poor kid lose an eye?

B.A. in Psychology
Applied Developmental Psychology minor.

yes, I will be living in a cardboard box when I go back to the states. D:

your supervisor may be hanging on to it since the deadline isn't until freakin' February. or has just plain forgotten about it. however, if you want to transfer prefectures, I guess you should ask...

I'm a big fan of the stamps, as well. I felt obligated to get stamps in English :D so I have varying degrees of achievement, I guess you would call it. ok!, good job, and very good... all...

thank you so much for all of your suggestions! they're super helpful. :]

as for the phonics part, I really have no idea what I'm supposed to do with that. the supervisor from the elementary...

I've searched the forum and nothing came up about this, so I am sorry if this is a repeat post!

I've been commissioned to teach a bunch of elementary school teachers classroom English. ...with...

my supervisor gave me the recontracting form last week. the conversation went a little something like this...

super: do you know about this form?
me: oh yes, the kencho ALT told us we would be...

pescatarian, I think. :]

ah! low fat soy milk?! what's the kanji for that? I just grab random cartons of the non-flavored soy milk. :[

I am going to the hospital next week for a checkup, and my supervisor said I'll have to use a few hours of nenkyu for the time I'll be gone. hopefully it's different for you! :]

I have a crap ton of free time, since I also only have 2-3 classes a day.

most of my day consists of pretending to be busy. I catch up on news about the homeland, study Japanese, chat online,...

NOOO! I totally want to go. that was one of the first things that I looked into when I found out I was placed in Fukui. :D

I'm going to be in a studio with what my predecessor calls "a tiny excuse for a kitchen" which is sad because I like to cook! but I have a place to live, and that's what matters. :]

yay for lower...

thank you! :]

now, where are all the other northerners?

this is a random question, but how many of y'all got the Japanese Encephalitis vaccine?

I ask this because:

Q. How is Japanese encephalitis transmitted?
A. By rice field breeding mosquitoes...

YAY! I finally got my placement. Matsuoka, here I come! :]