it`s getting warmer every day here. that means that school is going to get a little more unpleasant, because only the staff room and principal`s room are airconditioned.

but, the warmer weather means that not only summer, but festival season are upon us. and i just went to one, a couple days ago.





people in devil costumes, dancing around for an hour. & what`s the meaning behind it? i don`t know, and neither did my Japanese friend. and neither did anyone else we talked to that day. maybe it`s one of those things that people have been doing for so many hundreds of years, they don`t remember why they started doing in the first place.

2 days till I get whale in the school lunch

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well. golden week is already over. no more holidays until July. well, i suppose i should just be thankful for 3 days off we just had. back to my normal bonkers adventure.

5 days until I get whale in the school lunch.

Making friends

I just met one of the local yakuza. Although, this guy is more of a yakuza wannabe. The word for that in Japanese is "chinpira"
チンピラ

Thing about real yakuza is, they try as hard as they can to not draw attention to themselves. No real yakuza would ever say "I'm a fucking yakuza!" like he did in Japanese or any other language. And this guy had all 10 fingers too. If a loudmouth idiot like this guy was really a yakuza, I reckon he'd have about 6 fingers left by now.

See the thing is they have to cut off 1 of their own fingers when they fuck up. Saying "I'm in the yakuza" is definitely a huge fuckup. I've met these chinpira type before, nothing to be afraid of. This moron was trying to sell me a Japanese visa. Too bad for him, mine is good till 2014

7 days till I get whale in the school lunch.

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Everyone told me yakuza were fucking huge over here in western Japan. Were they talking about tards like this チンピラ?

well i had to basically force myself to write a post. it seems like i always have something to do, work related. and when i have free time, i just dont really want to do much of anything. as much as i argued with my co-teacher last year, well, they certianly didn`t spend their time sitting around doing nothing. now I`m on my own, so while I don`t have anyone to argue with, all the planning and preparation falls completely on my shoulders. and since i haven`t found an efficient way to deal with my new workload yet, I`m bringing work home alot more often than I`d like to.

kinda hard to get ahead on lesson planning when you teach straight through the whole school day, 1st to 6th period.

but hey, if i make it through one more week here (and friday`s a holiday, yay) my reward is golden week. now a smarter guy than me might take advantage of 4 days off to make their workload more manageable. but working on holidays seems to me like missing the point of the idea of holidays. so i`m not gonna do that. I`m gonna take the opportunity to blow off some steam. after golden week, there`s no holidays until summer break so...wanna enjoy my free time.

as for my golden week plans, i thought about going to Osaka, even Nara. but i think i`m just gonna hang around this town, unless everyone`s leaving for their hometowns, i dont know. there`s alot of cool temples around here, but i suppose i could see them anytime, and would be using my vacation better by going elsewhere. but i dont have much motivation to go. there`s a party in the prefecture i came from...but that`s ridiculously far away now TBH

and the people around here are pretty cool. i found not one but two bars within drunken stumbling distance of my place. everything else is pretty inconvenient though. this town is alot smaller than i thought it would be. theres big cities not terribly far away but...this place has nothing.

in fact, it`s small enough that lots of people know my business, including who my friends are, where I drink, where I work, and thats not paranoia talking either. I`m still trying to get used to that. guess i better stop throwing my cigarette butts all over and keep my tattooes covered up for the time being.

i thought i was going to be moving to a bigger city. well more people live here than the last place, but i`m still in the sticks. strangely enough, i`m not that angry about it. i`ve already made a couple friends and found stuff to do for those times when i say "FUCK IT IM NOT PLANNING ANY MORE LESSONS TODAY" i think i could grow to like this place, maybe. but it`s early days still, i havent even been here a month yet. well, on saturday it will be 1 month.

the move sucked btw. but hey, all my stuff got here, unbroken. guess i cant ask for anything more than that.

ーー外国人 in the 田舎

this blog is not dead

hoping to get a blog up this weekend. my new job has me unbelievably busy, i`m even taking work home sometimes. but the golden week is coming up soon. and i should have some time to spare

I just saw a huge fucking monkey walking through a field! From th window of this train. I'd heard there were monkeys in Japan, 1st time I saw one though. Wish I'd gotten a picture, this thing was really big

無事でした

Posting from my iPhone.

Just found out my friends grandparents are alive, not sure what the holdup was on getting in touch with them. But everyones relieved, it's a pretty good day.

4 days left in town. My stuff is like 90% ready. Trying to ship everything tomorrow.