An Announcement

So my contract is coming to an end and I made the incredibly difficult decision not to renew it. I absolutely adore Japan with all my heart but for reasons too varied and personal to get into on the internet I felt it was time to move on for the time being. I strongly feel that I will return to this beautiful land some day in the future although in what capacity I don't know. Perhaps I will simply come back as a smug tourist with a superior air annoying fellow travellers with my repetitions of "I lived here for a year ya know..." or maybe I'll return incognito to activate my covertly programmed army of elementary school children that will awaken in an adorable, murderous rage to a codeword that only I know. Then I will instigate my plans to take over Japan from the inside and crown myself Empress-for-life demanding free sushi wherever I go. I mean it could go either way really...

Come mid-April I will be packing my crap and high-tailing it to New Zealand; land of the hobbits, to continue my adventures and nonsensical ramblings there for a time. I'm looking forward to the next part of my travels but in the mean time crying on the inside (and the outside, I'm a totally emotional sap) for the rapidly approaching day that I have to go.

Goodbye letters from students: things that made me cry on the outside

I have had some seriously amazing times here, met some amazing people and taught some wonderful students. However, I'll leave the sad, mushy goodbye part for a later post.

On another note I was looking back over my photographs and I realised that there are so many places I went, and so many things that I saw, here in Japan that I didn't bother blogging about. The point of my beginning this blog was to document my travels and adventures and also of course the wonderful randomness of the country. I realise now that I left out a lot of what I did and this annoys me. I didn't feel the need to blog about everything I did and everywhere I went (and still don't, people who blog too often annoy me and I've deleted people before who post on every little thing) but some of the things I left out were pretty big and soon I won't be here anymore. I may or may not do a few travel logs just to include some of the other cities I've seen. So I have a question that probably no one is going to answer. Would travel logs be interesting to your eyes or a waste of internet? If people say yes I'll write them, if people say no I might just do it anyway but if anyone's interested I promise I will make them humorous and that reading them will qualify you for a free puppy!*




*Reading my travel logs will not get you a free puppy. I may however send some good karma your way.