All the world is a stage... in Japan.

So.. While I`m waiting for the news of my computer.. (its still on the Apple screen of death) I will accept that many personal things such as photos will be forever lost to the computer God. I`m convinced that there must be a shrine to this Deity somewhere in Japan BUT its got to be on another island because Kyushu, with all its great shrines (theres one for students, one with the largest rope, one for old people... you get it) doesn't have one.

 So, there will be downs in life, what can I tell you about the ups? 

Today, I had to make a speech in front of my primary senior high school. IN JAPANESE! Ah it was a glorious mess of vowels and consonants squished together and spit out of my mouth. But it must have been semi decent because the parts that the teachers didnt understand was where when I inserted my `Amerika no jodan desu` (American joke) in English. It was glorious.
Quick run down of the speech:

Hi, my name is.... I am from.... I am excited to teach you this year... for those who dont have class with me, I still want to talk with you so feel free to shout out, `Hey!` and I will respond, `Hay is for horses!`

Lame? Maybe but I enjoyed it.

AND a few students laughed... Maybe they were qued by the teachers (who saw me practicing nonstop for a week, talking to myself in the court yard) but I`d like to think that they got it. Dont shatter my dreams in the comment section, ok!

Good things happen everyday, here. Even when tragically bad things happen. Like when you go to the grocery store and actually hear the vocabulary words you were studying! Or when heaven forbid, you speak a little Nihongo and BAM! Something small got accomplished, like finding out where the freak`n zipties are at the hardware store.

Ah.....

Step by step. baby step. little little baby steps.

things are going to be ok.

On a side note, I really like my primary school, its equivalent to a college prep and 98% of attendees go to University, so the students behave themselves a little better than at my secondary school which is open to any students of all aims in life. High school boys still scare me, only this time around... I have ultimate power. I am a foreign goddess who studied their own martial arts. Oooohhhh scary. Nevermind, I spent the majority of this year not doing any of it.