I spent about 2 hours writing out my bio for the Dai Ni Shou newsletter/website today after doing my schedule for the term. I had the one Yvonne wrote for me, but I picked it apart and changed 90% of it. The freaking computer though didn't have romaji input... I had to hunt with one finger for the hiragana on the keys. Talk about a pain in the ass. I managed to write this through my own efforts combined with the Goo webiste English-Japanese dictionary and Bablefish translator. I must say, I am rather proud. I had Matsumoto-san, the school accountant, read it over for me and she didn't find any mistakes. XD Sweet!
皆さん、こんにちは。初めまして。私はヘザー・マッコーと申します。英語のＡＬＴ先生です。私は２３歳です。私はカナダのバンクーバーから来ました。バンクーバーはカナダの西のほうにあります。
子供の時は、お父さんの仕事の関係で９年間シンガポールに住んでいました。その時に中国語を勉強始めました。バンクーバーのブリティッシュコロンビア大学で、英語文学とアジアの研究を勉強しました。去年５月で卒業しました、そして８月に始めて日本に来ました。私は２００７年１２月から柏第二小学校に来ました。時間は少し短いだけど本当に楽しかったです。
未来で、私は高校の英語文学先生になりたい。私の趣味は料理、読書、歴史と語学学習ですが、日本の言語、食べ物と文化も興味があります。実は、日本へ来る前には日本語を勉強しなかった！
私がもう一度柏第二小学校へ行くチャンスが本当に嬉しいです。皆さんと一緒に仕事も、勉強もが出来ることを光栄に思っています。多くの方々とお知り合いになれることを楽しみにしています！今年も、どうぞよろしくお願いします。
"Hello everyone, nice to meet you. My name is Heather McCaw. I am the English ALT. I am 23 years old. I come from Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver is in the west part of Canada.
When I was a child, I lived in Singapore for 9 years because of my father's job. At that time, I started learning Chinese. At the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, I studied English Literature and Asian Studies. Last May I graduated, and then in August I came to Japan for the first time. I came to Kashiwa 2nd Elementary from December 2007. It was a short time, but it was really enjoyable.
In the future, I want to become a high school English Lit teacher. My hobbies are cooking, reading, history and studying languages and I also have an interest in Japanese language, food and culture. Actually, before I came to Japan I'd never studied Japanese!
I'm really happy to have the change to come to come to Kashiwa 2nd Elementary School again. I am really proud to be working and studying with you and look forward to meeting as many of you. This year, I ask for your favour again."
That's the gist. Pretty spiff if I say so myself.
Tomorrow I'm meeting up with Amanda to show her where I (am supposed to) take my Japanese lessons. Dan's birthday party is tomorrow night I totally forgot. I didn't write it in my calendar. Luckily Andrew reminded me. I haven't heard a peep from him since last weeked and that is rather odd. I guess my fears weren't completely unfounded, after all. If we don't meet up for a while, that's not so weird because he's busy with school and I'm busy at work, but we talk almost every day. Sigh. The plan is to go sing some karaoke in Roppongi at some swanked out place that has a jacuzzi in the room. O_o If I'm putting on my suit, I need to do some maintainence. And to be honest, if I'm not getting laid, I can't be bothered. And with the intended company, that's as likely as me growing a third eye. But that shit should never see the light of day. The only thing persueding me to get 'er done is that there's a
jacuzzi in the karaoke box. How many times am I going to shell out for that? Um..
never. If it wasn't his birthday, I wouldn't even be going because I am cheap. As. Fuck.
Why is it that everytime I feel like fic'ing it's like, 11pm? My brain can't function properly to write anything up to my standards at that point, so I don't even bother. Sorry, dudes. I have a list of things I've said I'm going to write (OHNO COCK FIC YESS) but I can't get the energy to do it. I figure this weekend is a write off because I'm going to be oot and aboot tomorrow and then prossibly hungover on Sunday. Although I was hungover when I wrote In-Flight Service and that was pretty smokin'.
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