This is the bomb!

[matsuki]

Come to Toyohashi... WE GOT CABBAGES !!

...and a zoo...with polar bears

[JLR]

Well I figure better late than never...

Was teacher in USA. Got laid off due to massive budget cuts (and was getting annoyed with the educational system in the USA). Sold my stuff and lived in Russia for a while (working without a visa but in Russia a nice bribe gets you far), backpacked around Europe visiting friends for a while and then got accepted at an international school in Japan.

Figured why the hell not and threw caution to the wind and took the job. No clue what to expect and no clue about Japan prior to getting here. Spent the first year here trying to adjust to life here and quickly realized bribing is NOT ACCEPTED here.

As you can see by my first topic here not overly impressed with Japan and still on the fence about renewing for 2 more years here or going elsewhere. I If I do stay here for 2 more years I guess I have a forum to bitch about things here. ha ha

Other than that I am laid back, 420 friendly, easy going and don't take life so damn seriously.

[Coligny]

420 friendly

Sumbody... translation pleaze...

[Mike Oxlong]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

[Coligny]

...and a zoo...with polar bears

And chikuwa:

(which seems to be some fish based foodstuff...

And the 4chan party train... (or at least tramway):

(Restaurant Tramway... yes... life is that boring here...)

[Coligny]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)

ohh... The stuff cool kids do in highschool... while I was in my reactionnary asshole phase...

since then, I dropped the 'reactionnary' to focus on the 'asshole' part...

[Yosh]

Sumbody... translation pleaze...

Never in my life have I heard someone needing a description of what 420 means. But hey, I'm from Canada, we make bongs out of hard packed snow and get fried with our sled dogs on an hourly basis. I heard that if the cops catch you with some weed in Japan they cut off your right hand and imprison you in the walls of the imperial palace.

[Yokohammer]

I heard that if the cops catch you with some weed in Japan they cut off your right hand and imprison you in the walls of the imperial palace.

And that's only the beginning. Don't even think about it.

[JLR]

And that's only the beginning. Don't even think about it.

Yea have not smoked since I have got to Japan. Not a huge deal overall.

Just saying would rather get high than get drunk.

[tegi]

Hello!
Been lurking for a while.
FG to a J-husband with 1 child and 1 on the way.
Moved here from US about 3.5 years ago and will probably stay here until DH job gets shipped overseas.

Lucky to have fantastic in-laws and extended family, but they live far away.

Main trial in life right now is catching up to my daughter in her kanji reading. My old brain just does not retain like it used to. But it provides comedic relief for the family when I try to write something.

[Taro Toporific]

Been lurking for a while...
Main trial in life right now is catching up to my daughter in her kanji reading. My old brain just does not retain like it used to. But it provides comedic relief for the family when I try to write something.

Ooooh, I feel your pain.
As a "favor" to a friend, I teach junior high school science classes in English on Saturday to returnees and they always embarrassing me on kanji knowledge even though 18 years ago I have passed Kanji Kentei level 8.

[GomiGirl]

FG to a J-husband with 1 child and 1 on the way.

oh - another girl and another mum!! There are a few of us on here too.

Welcome.

We will give you access to the Powder Room which is a girls only space here. Not much goes on in there - it has been a bit quiet of late.

[matsuki]

We will give you access to the Powder Room which is a girls only space here. Not much goes on in there - it has been a bit quiet of late.

You could give Greji and me access to that while you're at it...though I don't think there will be much powdering going on in there if we're there.

[Greji]

You could give Greji and me access to that while you're at it...though I don't think there will be much powdering going on in there if we're there.

She don't want me in her powder room. Can't take the competition!

[IparryU]

She don't want me in her powder room. Can't take the competition!

dont tell me that you are one of these?

[matsuki]

blue wool in grey ship
f*cked yankee
f*cked Gaijin
somethings wrong with the mayonnaise here


Hah! Still sux over there doesn't it? I'm here in the California Holy Land of Humboldt far, far away from people who hate my face and my hair. I play my music as loud as I want and when I want, and the tweekers may complain about my daughter's sax, but at least I understand what they're saying right when they say it!!!

and the porcelain... oh gawd the luxury of ass realty...



Okyakusama wa subete no okasarete! Home is where the Heart is >.<

Whereabouts in the land of the scorching sun are you?

[Coligny]

and the porcelain... oh gawd the luxury of ass realty...

Liza's father or Cornholio ?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

blue wool in grey ship
f*cked yankee
f*cked Gaijin
somethings wrong with the mayonnaise here


Hah! Still sux over there doesn't it? I'm here in the California Holy Land of Humboldt far, far away from people who hate my face and my hair. I play my music as loud as I want and when I want, and the tweekers may complain about my daughter's sax, but at least I understand what they're saying right when they say it!!!

and the porcelain... oh gawd the luxury of ass realty...



Okyakusama wa subete no okasarete! Home is where the Heart is >.<

Someone give this bloke his medicine...

[Coligny]

Someone give this bloke his medicine...

Too late I stolled it...

[IparryU]

Too late I stolled it...

no wonder why this came up:

Someone give this bloke his medicine...

he got enough green snot to snort back up for a few nights...

epic of a first post I must say!

[Encarmine]

Uh, Hi. I'm another self-loathing otaku with dreams of living in Japan who stumbled upon this site recently and decided to sign up. I don't really know any Japanese people or even people who speak Japanese fluently, so I figured I needed to find an online community to compensate.

I'm not gonna lie; I've only been studying Japanese for about ten months, and I don't get to actually use what I've learned very often (if at all), so you'll have to forgive me if I'm a bit slow on that front.

Anyway, I'm a young 'un fresh out of school and planning to head off to university next year in order to pursue a career in education. Ideally, I'd like to enlist for the JET program once I've finished my degree and then try to settle down in Japan, but I know it's going to be hell getting to that point. Still, I'm preparing as best I can. Get a job, save up enough, get that degree, shatter my foolish preconceptions of Japanese culture, and job's a good 'un.

[Coligny]

>>Tasmania

There's electricity down there ?

REALLY ?

[IparryU]

>>Tasmania

There's electricity down there ?

REALLY ?

...yar...

Uh, Hi. I'm another self-loathing otaku with dreams of living in Japan who stumbled upon this site recently and decided to sign up. I don't really know any Japanese people or even people who speak Japanese fluently, so I figured I needed to find an online community to compensate.

I'm not gonna lie]Anyway, I'm a young 'un fresh out of school and planning to head off to university next year in order to pursue a career in education. Ideally, I'd like to enlist for the JET program once I've finished my degree and then try to settle down in Japan[/B], but I know it's going to be hell getting to that point. Still, I'm preparing as best I can. Get a job, save up enough, get that degree, shatter my foolish preconceptions of Japanese culture, and job's a good 'un.

I said this on [url=SRK's forums]http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-official-japan-thread-2-0-nani.69437/page-42#post-6217546[/url]... will say the same to you...

IF you want a career in edumacation... do it in your own cuntry and don't waste your time/life here in japan. I know getting some Japanese pussy (or dick) may be a real hard on for you... but think about it SERIOUSLY and think about your future...

[Encarmine]

Love of Japanese culture and society aside, there's nothing for me in this country, and I was never one for patriotism. Plus I have personal reasons related to family, which I'd rather not talk about for obvious reasons.

And I'm certainly not planning to go there because I want to sleep with Japanese women (and I find it insulting that anyone would accuse me of being that shallow). I have a genuine and unshakeable interest in Japan as a whole, and unless I manage to finish writing that dream novel of mine, then there's nothing else I'd rather do than help build bridges between cultures, regardless of whether I can influence everyone I teach.

Call me a wide-eyed idealist if you will, but I've got a dream and a desire to help people.

[Mike Oxlong]

Call me a wide-eyed idealist if you will, but I've got a dream and a desire to help people.

So what part of Fucked Gaijin appealed to your idealism?

[Encarmine]

None. Why, is this a forum for the misanthropic and the severely depressed or something?

I mean, I might have PTSD, but that doesn't mean I can't stay positive about life.

[JLR]

Anyway, I'm a young 'un fresh out of school and planning to head off to university next year in order to pursue a career in education.

A career in education? Through JET and in Japan? ha ha ha ha!

[Coligny]

A career in education? Through JET and in Japan? ha ha ha ha!

Party pooper...

[Marked Trail]

And I'm certainly not planning to go there because I want to sleep with Japanese women...

[Yosh]

I have a genuine and unshakeable interest in Japan as a whole,

I have an unshakeable interest as well - have you ever seen that earthquake simulator machine they built? It shakes full sized buildings so J-engineers can manufacture perfect plastic condos resillient to their hourly quakes - anyways, here's my Idea:

I want to ride inside one of their earthquake simulators during a real earthquake - my theory is that they will cancel each other out. Also, I want to be riding a mechanical bull at the same time. Best interest evar!