Iwata!

My boyfriend and I got our placements Sunday evening. Yay! My boyfriend will be teaching in Hamamatsu and I'll be teaching in Iwata, which is east of Hamamtsu.

I'm super excited about this location! It's on the Tokaido line so we have easy access to Tokyo and Kyoto. I'm further from Tokyo this time, but I can get there in the same amount of time because it's a more direct route. Yay!

Hamamatsu has about 800,000 people and Iwata has about 160,000.

We both have driving positions. It should be interesting to drive on the left side of the road!

I decided to change my blog and I'm happy with how it looks now. :) I used a template and I still have a little bit of work to do, but I need to figure out how to make some of the changes. But it's already a big improvement!

I'm even more excited now that I know our placements. I want to go to Japan now!

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Places to Visit

It's just a little over two months until I move back to Japan!!! I'm getting excited! :) I have already started a packing list. I have a lot more that I want to take with me this time. Hopefully it will all fit in my suitcases. :P

I have also been making a list of places I want to visit. I'm sure I'll add much more to this list, but hopefully I will also check off a lot of places! I have links about most of these places so if you click on the names you can see blogs or websites about these places! :)

Various Cities and Places and Such

Miyajima

 

 

Torii, pretty water, deer... yay!

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My Scrapbook

When I got back from Japan, I started making a scrapbook of my time in Japan. I decided to organize my photos by location or theme instead of chronologically. It took a long time to complete (I finally finished it in January or February of this year). I couldn’t fit it all in one book so there are two volumes. Here are some pictures of a few of the pages.



I put many of the awesomely cute stickers I bought in Japan to good use!

I marked the cities I visited on the map and also made those prefectures slightly darker. Hopefully I’ll be able to add many more dots to that map when I go back! :)

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Random Places

I don’t travel as much as I did in Japan, but I have been to a few interesting places. Here are some pics of those places:



I visited the Doll House Museum in Danville, KY. I love miniature stuff! :)

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Crafts and Cooking

Since moving back to the US, I’ve made a bunch of stuff for my Etsy store, made some other random crafty stuff, and tried out a bunch of recipes. I missed Etsy while I was in Japan. I like making stuff, but I don’t really need all the stuff I make, so Etsy is a good way for me to get rid of all that stuff and make a little bit of money. My store is Strawberry Glitter: The Shop of Random Cuteness Here’s a bunch of the stuff I made for Etsy:

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Japanese Stuff in the US

I’m not moving back to Japan until march, but I am going to do a few posts before then. Some of them wont have much to do with Japan, but I miss blogging and would like to show what I’ve done since returning to the US. I have a lot of random things to show so I’ve divided my pictures into a few categories. This post will show Japanese things in America.

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I'm moving back to Japan! :)

I'm moving back to Japan! :) Yay! This time my boyfriend is going too! We both just accepted positions with Interac, the same company I worked for before. We had the opportunity to go later this year in August, but we decided to defer until March to save up money and have a better chance of being placed close together.

I'm really excited to move back to Japan. I've missed it a lot! I already have a list of places I want to visit and things I want to do even though I don't know what area we will be placed in.

It's been a little over a year since I last updated this blog. Since then I've had a few different temporary jobs. I did a couple of landscape design/installation projects, created a 300+ page product catalog for an agriculture equipment company, had a temporary job at a bank office for a week, had another temporary job as a test scorer, and now I am working as a cashier. I plan on sticking with that until March I guess. It's not a great job, but the time goes by quickly while I'm at work so it's ok I guess.

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