Avoid.

I opted for the plum. ('Ume' in Japanese.)

Announcement Two.

Months after first hearing about this, I'm pretty sure I'm finally at liberty to share. Currently, I'm the only native English teacher at my school...this is somewhat unusual. Well, in one month we will be getting a NEW TEACHER! Not my replacement, just a second teacher. Amazingly, this teacher will be none other than the very talented, very lovely Stacey Garcia (Chelley's big sis). I'm so happy and so lucky. Stacey, I cannot wait!

Happy New Year!

Well, I haven't been posting for, uhhhhh, quite a while, but I decided I better get to it before everyone who commented on my last post came after me in an angry mob bearing tar and feathers in the middle of the night.

So my camera is doing something funky and it has been really, really a test of my patience trying to upload pictures. I spent about 6 hours the other night uploading pictures from Tokyo and New Year's. This included me actually going to sleep and setting my alarm and then waking up later to check the status of the upload at like 2 am.

So, there, I hope you are happy! I am going to post photos later today.

And speaking of...Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu!!

P.S. I would like to thank Chelley and Mariah for making my least favorite holiday one of the best I have ever had. And especially Chelley for travelling all this way and being the love of my life for better or worse.