All change...

There are eventful days and there are eventful days... in the last 24 hours so much has happened that it is hard to know where to begin... the most eventful thing is that tomorrow is my last day working for a well known English conversation company! Last night I received a phone call and was invited to an interview this morning, at the end of which I was offered a job in a nearby highschool.
Despite liking my current job, this was too good an opportunity to pass up so I accepted. I felt bad having to tell my current boss that I would be leaving tomorrow, and I will definitely miss the students that I have been teaching for the last year and a bit. Nonetheless, I'm considering staying in Japan indefinitely, and I'm not confident that this could happen with my soon to be previous employer...

Acclimatise...

I have become mildly obsessed with the free super mario bros toys that come with pepsi twist... I now only need 10 more to complete the set, but, like the few elusive football stickers of my youth, they are hard to find...

Patchwork day

Well, today has been in pieces, pretty disparate, but I've tried to put them together and I think I have something to show for it. Went to Mr Donut this morning and practiced my kanji (drawing stares from the old ladies as i traced the strokes on my palm with my finger)... then went to Tenjin and mooched about for a few hours... had a strum on a 750,000 yen acoustic guitar (which sounded as you would expect for that money), saw some awful crimes against fashion and good taste (dayglo yellow high heels, ripped bleached denim and thick grandma tights, and that was just one girl...)... bought a nails "egg puzzle" in the hundred yen store... can't get my head around that just yet... printed off one of my cell phone photos at the station photo store... cleaned my apartment and did lots of washing... and now, off to eat the hottest curry in kurume... oh, and I have a tape of wonderful music but no tape player...