Returning to ‘Toba soon
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Time for an update!
I got everything ready and can now say that I will be arriving back in Canada on Dec. 20th and staying there until Jan. 4th. I’m hoping a lot of people will be around the Winkler-Winnipeg area at that time so I can see you before I head off again.
Really, that’s about all I have to say… nothing much has changed here in Japan. I’m now dating a new girl named Eriko who lives in the next town over. She works at a high-class tourist hotel, so her English is really good. She also majored in it when she was in university.
My second year students are all preparing for their speech test. If anything particularly interesting comes up I’ll be sure to pass it on. There’s one girl who takes my assignments like this and aims to impress me to no end. I still remember one of her haiku’s from the “make your own English haiku” class:
We watched fireworks
I knew your real intentions
But you said nothing.
Wow! Poetic in another language! I swear she’s a genius, but she hates studying. Why is that always the way it is?
I’ve signed up for a Japanese test, so I’ve been spending a lot of my free time studying for that. I’ve actually found myself enjoying studying this time around. I have absolutely no intention of returning to Canada monolingual. Living abroad has taught me that everyone should have at least two languages (and one of them should be English! Hahaha).
Thing I love most about Japan: Black Toyama Ramen
Thing I miss most about Canada: Good election conversations.
Current Kanji count: 1346
