two things
Saturday 22nd October 2005
I have two pieces of news:
(1) We didn’t win the taiko contest. But I’ve come away feeling more excited not just about taiko but about Japan generally, for reasons that I will explain later because, more pressingly:
(2) I have a new job in Naha, and so I’ll now be staying on in Okinawa until March. Just as I was thinking that crossing Mongolia / Siberia in November might not be as good an idea as it seemed in the sweaty heat of Okinawa’s summer, and feeling that actually a few more months in Okinawa would be quite nice, a job turned up. I started on Thursday, at a junior high school in the city. It’s about eight times the size of the island school I taught at before, but the teachers seem like a nice enough bunch and my work hours are shorter than before, so I’m hoping it should be a reasonably pleasant way to spend the winter before heading back across a Mongolia that is thawing rather than freezing.
…I want to say more about the taiko contest, but Tokyo followed by job-and-flat-acquisition and all the moving that goes with that mean that if I don’t go to sleep now I will probably die.
Posted by mayee — Sunday 23rd October 2005 at 1:50 am
yeay! for your plans… hope you aren’t sleep-deprived no more.
Posted by lva — Thursday 27th October 2005 at 11:30 pm
Thanks May. New job seems to be going ok so far. Still a bit sleep-deprived, but not as bad as before… Hope you’ve found some way of getting some sleep despite your neighbours’ incredible snoring and late-night furniture-rearranging, too!