i'm sorry!!

i know, i know ... i've been neglecting my blog recently and i apologize. there's just been so much time and so little to do i tell ya! well actually not really, i've been keeping busy the last couple of weeks so read on for all of the juicy details (well maybe not so juicy :P) ~

so let's see, where to begin. i think the last thing i updated u about was my trip down south and the birds coming back. since then, the snow is continuing to gradually melt and the snow around my house is almost completly melted! although it's still quite chilly, still using my heater in the evenings and the mornings.

last week and this week have been spent at the board (or bored as one of my friends put it) of education because it's spring break but unlike teachers in the states, teachers in japan don't get to bank on the vacation time and still have to go to school. i have been somewhat productive in the office though. i read a 600 page novel (called the historian, wasn't bad either), studied some japanese, organized the worksheets ive made for school, started typing up lesson plans for elementary school and various other little tasks to keep me busy (aka from falling asleep).

last weekend i hung out with some friends, went to a ladies clinic in hirosaki, met up with a teacher, enjoyed a friends birthday party, and went to hachinohe (3 hrs away) for a meeting. all in all a full weekend id say. check my pictures page in a couple of days for some new pictures.

oh for all my sua friends, guess what? i saw danny habuki on tuesday! he came to aomori to give a lecture (which was crazy, he didn't even know that i was living here, and i guess there is someone from aomori who is going to be part of the 6th class) and so i got to meet up with him for a little bit. it was so strange seeing him here, but nice too. it made me miss sua like crazy though and it was kind of sad to think that part of my life is really over. i cant believe the 2nd class is going to graduate next month!!! i wish i could go :(

so there's tons more i can blog about, but ill finish with this last little bit. i never knew i was a flower person, but apparantly i am! in japan, they shuffle around the teachers almost every year and when a teacher leaves a school they usually get going away gifts from teachers and flowers and the whole deal. well because i was leaving kanagi junior high school, they actually treated me like a regular teacher leaving, and i got money and flowers. well when i brought the flowers home and put them in my living room, i realized i really like flowers. they are just so fun and happy and really brighten up a room!!

anyways, i think ill finish with that. ill try and update more frequently ... i promise!! love all of u back home and miss u!!