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Out And About
Despite my best intentions, I was worried that I wouldn’t get round to seeing much of the country in the last few weeks before I left because I’d been in kind of a rut lately, doing not much other than working and sleeping. Luckily, there’s nothing like leaving a country to create a list of […]
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Done And Dusted
And just like that, my two year teaching ‘career’ has come to an end. It’s hard to put my feelings into words as they alternate rapidly between the joy of revelling in new-found free time and a kind of emptiness, which I didn’t really expect. I guess suddenly stopping anything after a long time is […]
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Over-Efficient
Japan is known, often erroneously, as being a very efficient country. But today I realised that sometimes things can be too efficient. Having settled on checking out Australia, I’d originally booked my flight to go to Melbourne after staying for a few days with my cousin Alan in Singapore. But, on the advice of a […]
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Downtime
If you hadn’t noticed, this site’s been unavailable for the last few days and it’s pretty much my fault. Though nobody probably really noticed, I transferred hosts last year and I was naive enough to think that it would all go smoothly. It did, actually, until last week, when suddenly my site became unavailable and […]
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The End Is In Sight
Seeing as the cat’s already out of the bag after the comment someone left on my last post a few days ago, I suppose it’s time I mentioned my big news. In a few weeks I’m leaving Japan and I’m going to Australia. My contract expires at the end of March and I decided I […]