http://redoctopus13.com/blog Updates and pictures on my trip to Japan to teach English with Nova Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:29:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I'm finally writing an entry for my new blog. I hope that my friends and family will look at this page often as I get a little more accustomed to using it. Some of the links don't work yet and I'm sure that I'll add some more in the ... http://redoctopus13.com/blog/?p=6 Well, I've been delayed once more. But now I have a definite date! On June 14th I am leaving for Osaka!!! The Japan offices have received my COE (Certificate of Eligibility) so it is definite, for sure, and positive that I am leaving on the 14th. (Yeah!!) Let the ... http://redoctopus13.com/blog/?p=11 Well hello and goodbye! I'm sitting in the Detroit airport with almost 3 hours to go until my flight to Osaka. I found an electrical outlet so I thought I'd write a quick goodbye and share some more pictures from North Carolina and Minnesota. If you click on the picture ... http://redoctopus13.com/blog/?p=23 I'm here!!ﾃつ I already have pictures that I want to post but I am only able to use the hotel's computer so I can't upload pictures yet....ﾃつ I will be leaving Osaka today and travelling to Nagoya and Nisshin during the day. Should be all kinds of fun!!ﾃつ ... http://redoctopus13.com/blog/?p=24 Osaka was SO cool. I MUST go back. The flight was delayed out of Detroit so we left at 5pm or so. We arrived around 8pm the next day - watched four movies on the flight. Ate dinner, a snack and then breakfast. The flight really didn't feel like it ... http://redoctopus13.com/blog/?p=42 SO, on the very next morning after arriving and running around Osaka taking pictures of grafittiﾃつ i had to get up and hop on a train to get to Nagoya. we rolled our little carryons to the station (a few blocks away) and went down an escalator and waited for ... http://redoctopus13.com/blog/?p=43 Whew! So I've been busy!!ﾃつ I arrived in Nisshin on friday and didn't have to work until tuesday, so i took out a map and walked around. took lots of pictures. there's half a dozen temples and shrines within a 30 minute walk. i went to an iris park ... http://redoctopus13.com/blog/?p=55 So, I've obviously found an internet cafe.ﾃつ :)ﾃつ Roommates & I hope to get internet in the apartment in the beginning of July, so I will hopefully update the blog more often. As for right now, there are three posts BELOW this one going all the way from ... http://redoctopus13.com/blog/?p=75 SO! Teaching is weird!!ﾃつ There are a lot of different levels of students and each class is something new. There are somewhere around 800 students that come fairly regularly (within the last 6 months). The school has 14 classrooms which are really just big cubicles with a curvy desk ... http://redoctopus13.com/blog/?p=76 SO, I had my first set of real days off and on Wednesday I took the subway down to Osu Kannon because I heard that there's a flea market on the grounds of the local templeﾃつ on the 28th of every month. Apparently Osu Kannon used to be widely known ... http://redoctopus13.com/blog/?p=79