After about 18 months I’ve returned to Japan. I left Japan in April 2009 to return to Australia to complete the work experience component of my Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. This is a necessary step to qualifying as a solicitor and, given that I had already completed the coursework component of the Diploma, had [...]
I’ve been inspired by Michael Lee’s excellent behind the scenes post about SMASH! to explain how things looked from my side of the fence. First, the background. I was a founding member of the Sydney University Anime Society and one of the original organisers of Animania. I stopped working on Animania after 2003 and in [...]
These just seem to get later every year, don’t they? Initially it was January, then February, now it’s March. It’s probably good that I waited a couple of months, though, because there’s a few new ones that have snuck in just in time. Let’s see what I’m listening to this year and how many sentences [...]
I rather like Japan. Some of my best friends are Japanese. My wife is Japanese (probably should have written that one first). I’ve lived and worked in Japan for two and half years and deeply admire many aspects of the society. Today I saw the film 夕凪の町、桜の国 (Yūnagi City, Sakura Country). The film follows the [...]
I have a new job. There. I spent a while trying to work out how to say that and ‘blurting’ seems to be just about the best method. I work for the Sakai City Board of Education. They were my previous employer while I was a JET and have been kind enough to reemploy me [...]
I feel like it’s been a while since the last update (according to the archives it’s been about a month ago but it seems a lot longer). So, let’s update. The good news is that I’ve passed the coursework component of the College of Law. Hooray! This means that I’m one step closer to being [...]
You know when you have one of those good days? Friday was a good day for me. Not only did it follow a holiday on Thursday while preceding another on Saturday but it was the first day since the end of my College of Law course. I don’t know if I’ve actually passed everything yet [...]
I wrote up this entry on paper first but I can’t get it to sound right so I’m just going to blurt it out and put it up for you all to read. Don’t say I don’t care. So my time on the JET Programme is over but I’m still working to improve the English [...]
I had to actually go back and check the last time I wrote in the blog. It says I had an entry on the 20th July but I can assure it seems so much longer ago. Things have moved very quickly in the last week or so and I’ll write another entry about my new [...]
I’m really into the death throes here. Sorry. I’m feeling a little morbid at the moment. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m coming to the end of my time at the school or what but whatever it is I’m feeling a little darker. My mood was not improved when I discovered today that I [...]