So. . . I'm sure you've all read about me getting laid off. .well, i don't know what to do now. . my visa ends in February and my ALT (assistant Language Teaching) job in April that I was really excited about is now telling me until I get my visa renewed they can't hire me on. I am also still unsure I can stay another year in Japan since I need to talk to my loan company about altering my payments to one that will work with my income.
In the end maybe I'm not suppose to stay in Japan. I'd like to. . . I'd like to stay in Japan (and just to let you know. . .boyfriend or no boyfriend) another year. I really want to stay in japan another year! But like my mom said. . .if I'm not suppose to then I don't want to. . .if it's not the Lord's will then I won't go. . . please pray for me. I'll be sad but I know in the long run I'll be fine but really I'd like another year in Japan.
please pray for me.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Pardon my French but this is Bullshit
I seriously hate NOVA and anything having to do with NOVA. Why did they have us sign new contracts just to lay us off? I hate them! I hate them!! I turned down starting at Interac in January just because I felt bad fo skipping out on NOVA before my contract ended. I hate NOVA!
Here is the letter I recieved today while waiting for my flight.
In the interest of providing you the following information as quickly as possible, the following message is an advance email copy of a letter sent to your home address:
December 21, 2007
Information regarding Re-employment with G.education
Thank you for requesting re-employment with G.education. Since taking over operations at Nova we have put all our efforts into proceeding with the reopening of branches. As a result, we expect to have approximately 130 branches offering Nova lessons during December 2007.
At the same time, the Trustees in Bankruptcy are making progress with dissolving Nova Corporation. At present they have started proceeding sequentially with terminating leases of properties which will not be taken over by G.education and the problem of unpaid wages. With the cooperation of property owners, we have managed to rapidly reopen many branches but now intend to more closely align branch reopenings with the current business situation. The process of opening the Ekimae Ryugaku branches and restarting lessons requires a lot of time, personnel and expense. To enable us to offer lessons even more quickly to students who still have unused lesson points, we will shift the focus of development from the branches to expanding Ochanoma Ryugaku lessons with a view to even opening new Multimedia Center facilities overseas.
In the current business situation, it is only possible for G.education to employ a limited number of instructors in January and while we appreciate your request for re-employment from January 10, 2008, it is with great regret that we inform you that we are not able to offer you a position at G.education at this time.
This has been a very difficult decision for G.education to have to make and we would like to offer assistance to all applicants, including information about other employment options or financial assistance with purchasing an air ticket to your home country. Additionally, the G.communication group has opportunities available in the restaurant industry and would welcome inquiries if you have an interest in this field. We will also continue to assist the Trustees in Bankruptcy with the necessary documentation for making applications for reimbursement of unpaid Nova Corporation wages.
While the current business situation makes this decision unavoidable, we hope to be able to contact you and ask you for your assistance if possible once business operations allow.
In our endeavor to continue Nova fs business, we are constantly forced to make difficult decisions and, while our aim is to be able to have as many students as possible return to the branches and as many instructors as possible continue employment, it is with a heavy heart that I have to inform you of this decision and ask for your understanding.
We wish you all the best with your future endeavors.
Takashi Ono
Chief Executive Officer
Oh, what to do. . .
Here is the letter I recieved today while waiting for my flight.
In the interest of providing you the following information as quickly as possible, the following message is an advance email copy of a letter sent to your home address:
December 21, 2007
Information regarding Re-employment with G.education
Thank you for requesting re-employment with G.education. Since taking over operations at Nova we have put all our efforts into proceeding with the reopening of branches. As a result, we expect to have approximately 130 branches offering Nova lessons during December 2007.
At the same time, the Trustees in Bankruptcy are making progress with dissolving Nova Corporation. At present they have started proceeding sequentially with terminating leases of properties which will not be taken over by G.education and the problem of unpaid wages. With the cooperation of property owners, we have managed to rapidly reopen many branches but now intend to more closely align branch reopenings with the current business situation. The process of opening the Ekimae Ryugaku branches and restarting lessons requires a lot of time, personnel and expense. To enable us to offer lessons even more quickly to students who still have unused lesson points, we will shift the focus of development from the branches to expanding Ochanoma Ryugaku lessons with a view to even opening new Multimedia Center facilities overseas.
In the current business situation, it is only possible for G.education to employ a limited number of instructors in January and while we appreciate your request for re-employment from January 10, 2008, it is with great regret that we inform you that we are not able to offer you a position at G.education at this time.
This has been a very difficult decision for G.education to have to make and we would like to offer assistance to all applicants, including information about other employment options or financial assistance with purchasing an air ticket to your home country. Additionally, the G.communication group has opportunities available in the restaurant industry and would welcome inquiries if you have an interest in this field. We will also continue to assist the Trustees in Bankruptcy with the necessary documentation for making applications for reimbursement of unpaid Nova Corporation wages.
While the current business situation makes this decision unavoidable, we hope to be able to contact you and ask you for your assistance if possible once business operations allow.
In our endeavor to continue Nova fs business, we are constantly forced to make difficult decisions and, while our aim is to be able to have as many students as possible return to the branches and as many instructors as possible continue employment, it is with a heavy heart that I have to inform you of this decision and ask for your understanding.
We wish you all the best with your future endeavors.
Takashi Ono
Chief Executive Officer
Oh, what to do. . .
Friday, December 21, 2007
Ballads and Rock Music
Today is the last day here in Japan before I leave for the US. I will be in Oregon from the 22-30th then the 30-12th I'll bei n Hawaii on an amazing cruise with my family. My grandma Seese is blessing us again with a wonderful family trip. She's blessed us soooo much through the years with these trips. I pray that someday I'll be able to bless my grandchildren with such adventures.
I can't believe that I'm about to leave for 3 weeks!!! Its been 10 months to the day when I came. I feel like its gone sooo quickly. I will be turning 25 in February but it just seems like I was celebrating my 24th b'day! I'm kind of excited about celebrating it in Japan. My first international birthday!!!! The week before my b'day I'll be going to Hokkaido with Amy. We both really want to see the northern island of Japan. Tatsuya is from Sapporo which is the main city of Hokkaido and he says that Hokkaido is the best part of Japan :) I'm excited. We'll be there for a week and there is a really famous festival in Sapporo while we are up there so we'll go see it. It's called the Snow Festival because. . . it snows a lot up in Sapporo and it will be like -10 degrees Celsius while we're up there!!! Brrrrr. . . . I'll need to get some long johns when I get home.
So if you are wondering. . .I am hoping to stay another year here in Japan. . . it seems like a long time to commit to again but I'm sure it will go by fast just like this stint did. I'm sure at times it will feel slow and I'll be soo ready to come home and then other times it will feel like it's going by too fast. I already have another job with a company called Interact where I"ll get to work with the actual Japanese school system. I'm looking forward to this new change in work. Of course this is if my loan company will work with me and let me make smaller loan payments for year. I know that I can't live here in Japan forever as a teacher but I'd like to stay another year to travel some more and to get to know Tatsuya better.
On the 19th I went to a concert of his for the first time!!! It was pretty fun and Tatsuya's band was really great. All the bands were talented and I think that over all Japanese players are better then in the US and my friend, Bernice, said that they are better then the Brittish too. I mean comparing young artists to young artists. But seriously. . . Tatsuya is amazing on the drums. . .not just okay but AMAZING! I'm not saying this just because he's my SUPER TALENTED boyfriend ;) but because he really is super talented.
(not my picture. . .their pic on their website.)
He's on teh drums
(not my picture. . .their pic on their website.)
He's on teh drums
I wish I could post more pictures of their band but I'm waiting for my friend to e-mail me the pics from her camera because I didn't take mine. I really wish I Had a little digi camera :( I wish I hadn't lost it in CA before coming to Japan.
Yesterday I went with Tatsuya to the airport at 7am! Which ment I woke up at 5:45 to get to Ikebukuro by 7am. I was surprised by how very small his bag was. . .it was the size of a very small carry on. Like a backpack on wheels. He can't wear the same clothes he wears in Tokyo in Sapporo so he didn't pack many cloths. ( Me on the other hand. . . I am packing 2 bags to check and taking my backpack and a purse as my carry ons!!! goodness gracious. . .I'm blaming it on the gifts ;) ) We got there early and were able to have breakfas together. As we ate he grabbed something out of his little bag and passed it across the table. . ..it was 2 mixed cds labled "Ballad" and the other "Rock" and a letter. Instead of sleeping he'd stayed up making me the cds and writting me a sweet letter in Japanese. He also had to clean his place up but. . . .he'd gone to sleep at 5am and gotten up at 6am. Poor boy. We finished eating and then walked to the gate. We said our goodbyes and I watched him leave. I arrived home at 10:30 and he arrived in Sapporo at the same time !!! funny huh? :) But my ticket home to Toda was around 68,000 yen cheaper then his ticket to Sapporo :)
I am heading out of here at 5:50 to meet my friend in Akabane by 6:45 but i have to walk all my crap into the station. . .. ugh. . .not looking forward to that. . .not at all actually. . . . blugh.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Matters of the Heart
So I am going to take a tip from my good friend David's blog (you should check it out http://www.dmesler.blogspot.com/) and just write. Sorry, if you're disappointed there are no pictures but I realize that people leave just as many comments (none) wether I leave pics or not. meh.
If you keep up to date on my blog you know that I'm dating an amazing guy here in Japan. And if you don't . . . .well, I'm dating an amazing man here in Japan named Tatsuya. I was thinking back to when I first came to Japan almost 2 years ago and how on myspace I posted that I'd gotten engaged to a Samurai and how many of my friend fell for the joke. Well, Tatsuya's pretty darn close :) He's a drummer! j/k. I mean. . . he is a drummer but it's not sooo close to a samurai. But he's a great man.
On the 16th we celebrated Christmas and our 2nd month anniversary. . .more so Christmas. It was nice. We were planning on going to an Observitory but instead we ended up paying 1800 yen (about 15 dollars) for tickets and not going. We'd bought the tickets but we had about an hour and a half to wait for our turn to go in so we found a local Starbucks and sat and chatted. We ended up chatting through our time for the Observitory but we both decided it was worth it. Instead we went bowling (we both suck we decided. The first time we went bowling we both got 111 but this time he got 67 and I got 63! Sad) and then to a nice restraunt. It was a great evening.
He's taught me sooo much about myself and about communication (and how much I suck at it even though I think I do communicate. . hahaha). I also see how much I don't truly love people sometimes and how emotional, selfish, and selfseeking I can be. He's taught me more about what love is. . . that love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails, but whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
and 13 ;)
May we all learn to love like this . . . .may Tatsuya and I learn to love like Christ.
If you keep up to date on my blog you know that I'm dating an amazing guy here in Japan. And if you don't . . . .well, I'm dating an amazing man here in Japan named Tatsuya. I was thinking back to when I first came to Japan almost 2 years ago and how on myspace I posted that I'd gotten engaged to a Samurai and how many of my friend fell for the joke. Well, Tatsuya's pretty darn close :) He's a drummer! j/k. I mean. . . he is a drummer but it's not sooo close to a samurai. But he's a great man.
On the 16th we celebrated Christmas and our 2nd month anniversary. . .more so Christmas. It was nice. We were planning on going to an Observitory but instead we ended up paying 1800 yen (about 15 dollars) for tickets and not going. We'd bought the tickets but we had about an hour and a half to wait for our turn to go in so we found a local Starbucks and sat and chatted. We ended up chatting through our time for the Observitory but we both decided it was worth it. Instead we went bowling (we both suck we decided. The first time we went bowling we both got 111 but this time he got 67 and I got 63! Sad) and then to a nice restraunt. It was a great evening.
He's taught me sooo much about myself and about communication (and how much I suck at it even though I think I do communicate. . hahaha). I also see how much I don't truly love people sometimes and how emotional, selfish, and selfseeking I can be. He's taught me more about what love is. . . that love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails, but whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
and 13 ;)
May we all learn to love like this . . . .may Tatsuya and I learn to love like Christ.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
戸田市
The other week my friend, Amy, and my roommate, Charlene, decided to have a little get together where we each made a dish and we watched "Love Acutally" and had a bit of hot sake and laughter. It was the first time here in Japan it felt like Christmas. So far it just doesn't feel like Christmas time.. . .maybe because I missed Thanksgiving. Here are some pics of our party. It's a small gathering but we filled the room with laughter and good times.
Our small little kitchen
My roommate made dumplings/ gyoza type things and that's my soup on the right
Our little gathering :)
Plus me. (ps. . . thanks Sunva for that great hat. I wear it all the time here.)
Our little table was heavey layden with goodness
they are soo cute :)
Oh, it was freezing in there when we were eating but now adays it's warmer and we don't even need a heater at night. The day times are sunny and clear.
Our small little kitchen
My roommate made dumplings/ gyoza type things and that's my soup on the right
Our little gathering :)
Plus me. (ps. . . thanks Sunva for that great hat. I wear it all the time here.)
Our little table was heavey layden with goodness
they are soo cute :)
Oh, it was freezing in there when we were eating but now adays it's warmer and we don't even need a heater at night. The day times are sunny and clear.
Monday, December 10, 2007
川口
Here are some more pics of Amy and my wanderings. . .
this man is a temple/ shrine monk. He just stands there and waits. He also gives you a little card if you donate money.
that's the card
Sorry these updates are so random!
12 more days to go before I'll be in Oregon. Love you all.
this man is a temple/ shrine monk. He just stands there and waits. He also gives you a little card if you donate money.
that's the card
Sorry these updates are so random!
12 more days to go before I'll be in Oregon. Love you all.
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