rainy days
wow it's only 8:30 and i'm already feeling crummy and bored. yesterday with no classes was just the longest day ever. with all my motivation zapped, it was all i could do to plan my eikaiwa class for last night (which went quite well thanks to all the input).
but today i feel like the weather. dark, miserable, sad, rotten...
wow i really hope that it's sunny this weekend. would love to spend some quality time at the beach. anyone up for it if it's nice on saturday? i might take a drive up the coast north of murakami to find that nice one up there...
but today i feel like the weather. dark, miserable, sad, rotten...
wow i really hope that it's sunny this weekend. would love to spend some quality time at the beach. anyone up for it if it's nice on saturday? i might take a drive up the coast north of murakami to find that nice one up there...
posted by Justine at 7:29 p.m.
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i'm in if you go. it is quite a lovely beach. tim and i did shell collecting the other weekend there.
wow...a beach in japan that actually has shells???
justine, we are definitely on the same page this week. i have zero motivation to do anything, i am bored, fed up, grumpy and lots of other things i can't put into words. don't know why. it is a week like any other. the weather and my school are really getting me down.counting the hours til 11:40 tomorrow.
Are we all just waiting for the Summer 'Vacation'? I know I am. We've had exams this week, so no lessons this week and none last week because teh teachers wanted to use my team teaching time to prepare the students for exams. Next week I have a final set of classes, which are totally off curriculum so I can do whatever I like. Perfect oppertunity to do a world awareness lesson but can I be arsed to make one? Can I feck.
you guys have seriously made me feel better, ive been trying to figure out why im in a funny mood, there was no obvious reason, i had a full on panic attact at annie over dinner on tuesday night. After 2 hours of analysing ME (yes im that self involved) we still couldnt figure out what it was that was making me feel so down. This week i feel soooo unmotivated. My apt is a mess, my clothes are everywhere and getting damper by the second due to this fucked up weather... Now i feel atleast alittle more normal. Please dont diss on me but im also alittle stressed about getting another year older. Its not that i feel so old just that time is flying and that stresses me out!!!!
I need sunshine, i need sunbathing, i need my girls :( Justine feels like i havent seen you for ages!! You'll be at kashiwasaki party right?? Kelly are you going? I just sent out an email about my bday but didnt have ur email in my address book, J can u forward it to kelly please?
sorry this has turned into an essay about debbie. sorry ;(
love ya xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
they say misery loves company and sometimes i honestly believe it's true. or, at least if we're all feeling a little bit down we can assume it's due to the weather/being fed up near the end of school etc instead of OURSELVES being down because of some kind of internal misery. pretty much 2 more weeks of school, it's obvious that it's going to drag by, right?
debs, try to focus on the partay aspect of your bday and not the age thing. will definitely try to make it down for the kash party. it's been a while since i've been good and social. i just hope the weather's good. kell, r u thinking about going to murakami tonight? i can't, japanese class.
martin, good luck with the lesson plans. i know for me if i can teach anything than the pressure takes over and it makes me more stressed than just following somethign out of the text...
guys, cheer up pleeeaaaase!!! i dont like it when all my friends are down!
i know the weather's shit now but think of all the cool stuff we've got to look forward to over the next few weeks, party this week, kash party, debs b'day!!! and all the festivals too! deb i agree with you that time is flying, but that's better that it dragging by and you being bored all the time surely?
yep school is crap at the the mo, my kids have got exams too, i always imagine being all organised when exams come round and clearing my desk, planning ess stuff for next term, etc, but clearly that's not gonna happen! i'm just going round and round making random blog comments instead. much better use of my time!
anyway, keep smiling!!! kxxxx
j- beach on sat will be great - i'll call you xx
arrr, we re all in the same boat, thats nice.
Misery loves company indeed.
Shit weather, PLUS we re all in a limbo....that in between phase. We re about to say goodbye to awesome friends made this year, and we re about to make new ones. It's a disconcerting feeling, and it's not nice. Rain doesnt help.
IM defintely in a limbo right now, dunno what direction my life is taking, dunno what i wanna do with it, dunno what the 'right' thing is, im fed up with school, im ready for a BIG break from this country.
Deep down though that feeling of not knowing? It sure beats the planned out with a route version :-)
it's true we are all in a kind of limbo, it's weird thinking about how things will be next year, but then compare it how (i assume) we were all feeling this time last year, we're way better off. there's the excitement of meeting new people and another year here and everything that that involves, but the security of having a great network of friends already set up and we'll feel way more settled.
there are so many people leaving who we'll miss like crazy, but surely that's better than never having met them at all? kat, you're right, if our lives were all planned out for us with no options or freedom, we'd be going crazy. just trying to look on the bright side! kxx
My My My,
We are all little down in the dumps this morning. It could be worse
You could be......
Vladamir Putin-He spoke English for the first time in public at the Olympic presentation yesterday. To no avail. Tit.
Hillary Clinton; She called the poll "misleading" for not "measuring intensity". Sore loser. Piss off.
The mayor of the Spanish capital, Alberto Ruiz Gallardon; "there are neither losers nor winners. London won the right to host it. I think that makes you a looser and 57million Brits winners.
And last but by no means Jacques –Chirac. I hope he is served British beef in the form a V sign and 5 coloured onion rings all interlinked in Gleneagles, Scotland. Dick.
Oh, and then there`s George Bush. The monkey fell of his bike for colliding with a police officer. 3 cheers for the police officer.
Now if you are british or affliated with the commonwealth.
2012 baby.
And if your like me, a LONDONER, the feeling is even better.
Something to tell the grandchildren one day.
The Guardian newspaper front spread but it beautifully:
"one sweet word; London".
I hate to gloat but this is best thing that’s happened to me since I bought my beloved iPod. If don’t have one, u don’t understand. Period.
Hee hee hee! The jokes on 'Jacques ass'
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005310173,00.html
(link probably won't work mind)
i just had a HUGE heart to heart with sacow (sakaue sensei), the jte i hate and who has made my life hell for the past 4 months.this is the woman who thinks there are enough foreigners in japan and we're paid too much money. it started out as a heated discussion about why i don't get a schedule in advance/discipline issues/speaking test/my duties etc.etc. but ended up with me poring my heart out to the old cow!!!!! WTF!!!! i even had tears in my eyes at one point!!!i hate this woman with a passion. but looks like she does have a heart in there somewhere. she even came up wih some good suggestions.she thinks i should go and live with tom and tell everyone to f**k off! that's not going to happen(unless i quit my job) but she seemed to really understand why i am unhappy in my job, stressed living in japan sometimes(i love and hate the place) stressed because i now have to come into this school in august when i won't be teaching here next semester and therefore have no real relationship with the school after classes finish next week, stressed about changing schools in sept, worried about the future, worried baout getting a year old (snap debs!) etc.etc.etc. well she seemed to get most of it but then at the end she said "you are so lucky to have a boyfriend" but anyway. it must be something in the air. that or i'm turning into a big girly girl(actually it's true, i am! it's japan's fault!i was never like this at home!) i just cannot believe i opened up to this woman. what is wrong with me? i don't trust her, i don't even like her!
debs, i'm hoping to be at your birthday thing( can someone forward details to my yahoo) and kashiwasaki party.
kel
xxx
p.s. this time of year is always a bad time for alt's. it'll pass.
wow, kell. it seems as though maybe you would have benefitted from a girls' night this week! but it does feel good to get it all off your chest, ne?
i find that comment rather odd "at least you're lucky to have a boyfriend". it's a strange attitude some japanese tend to have - at least, they're much more talkative about it than we would be. you don't often hear girls say 'you're so lucky you have a boyfriend' even if they're thinking it. maybe something more appropriate would be, 'you're so lucky to have met tom, he's a great guy and you guys really seem to compliment each other, it's rare to find that blah blah blah'. but 'you're so lucky to have a boyfriend' just almost sounds like a girl is super lucky just to get any guy, no matter who or what he is like. or something, ne?
kat, man don't even get me started on being freaked about when i have to go home. that's why i plan to be here forever...(not, really).
hit, thanks for the good humour as always.
xo
yeah thanks hiten! although i'm just wondering, are you ever stressed/freaked out? you hide it well if so.
j,totally with you on that comment about being lucky to have a guy. it's crazy,right? earlier in the conversation she asked "will you get married with your boyfriend soon?" i had to explain it is a cultural difference and where i come from couples live together before they get married and that if we did get married (hypothetically speaking of course!) all my family and friends would be shocked because we're still young etc. etc. then she was all for me not working and living with tom! she doesn't understand really. things/attitudes are so different in japan deshou?
emma that link did work and just brightened up my day :D nothing like "The Sun" to sort me out (is it really sad that its one of the things i miss the most from Blighty?!)
so far today, ive found out that fuji rock 3 day plus camping tickets are sold out, so i cant get one for my mate whos coming over next week :(
My trip to korea is cancelled cuz my teacher is ill and needs an emergency operation :(
My trip to Tokyo this wkend is cancelled cuz i left it too late and the coach is full :(
fucking hell... is someone trying to finish me off????? seriously done with today, it needs to end soon so tomorow can start and everything can get better.
Oh and one the guy thing, my kids and teachers pitty me ALL the time that I dont have a boyfriend, as though my life is worthless if im single. My teachers are even setting me up with the 18yrold students now, they really think i need a boy that much. Am i really that pathetic???!
gits. (although if they set me up with the beautiful naoki i wouldnt be bitchin!!!!)
shit debs, what a day!!! do you still want me to ask bout the tickets at lawsons? how about 3 one-day passes? or is that crazy expensive? kxxx
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