what do you want to buy?

"I want to buy a girlfriend"
huh?
That was one of my students responses on the worksheets I made for them. They had to interview their friends, write down their answers, and then draw a picture of the answer and write a title for it. Apparantly one of my boys is very lonely and wants a cute girl to be his girlfriend :-P

Thanksgiving turned out really good. Actually went to two, was able to sit down and have a proper meal at only one of them though. The pumpkin bread I made turned out to be a hit, I'll have to make that for you guys when I go home. We had a going away party for one of my friends, Midori (she has made appearances in picutres on this site, most recently being in the autumn leaves photo). She is going to Sendai for work because where we live, there just aren't enough jobs for people to find here. So, very sad but will now have a friend in Sendai to visit and eat cow tongue with ... mmm yum!

You want to know something that makes my day? It's when I leave school and the kids say good bye to me. The best ones are when you get one of the really shy kids, or one of the boys that seems totally uninterested in the world around them, and they see you, you say good bye and they give you a great big cheesy smile and return the greeting. It just makes you feel all warm inside, like ... wow, these kids are so great! I really do enjoy working with them. And seeing that I'll be here for another 2 years (probably) that's a good thing.

Hmmm, eventually I really need to start thinking about what I'm going to do after JET ... where am I going to live? where am I going back to school? where am I going to work (pretty sure that's still going to be a school though, or something with education)? oye, it seems as time passes, I only get more questions!