Japan: A Picture A Day

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Baked onigiri!

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Cool mailboxes in Kusatsu! They're usually red so it was pretty trippy to see other colors!

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In Gunma prefecture there in an onsen town called Kusatsu. The water is very sulfur-y and very very hot. So hot you can boil eggs in it! I didn't get to eat the eggs, but I did get to go into the onsen! It was so much fun and I smelled like eggs for the rest of the day.

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My boyfriend always sent me these huge text messages and I always felt overwhelmed reading them because there was so. much. text. (He’s an English major whatcha gonna do?) Finally, one day I told him “can you pls like… Send your texts in short bursts? there’s a ton o info and it’s overwhelming u no?” (I, on the other hand am not an English major). He took my advice and so far our long distance texting is going smoothly. Or smoother than it was.

I told you this story not so that you would take pity on my grammar mistakes but because I finally took my own advice. I’m going to chunk my life into little bits that are easy to write and post about. I’m going to try to do “a picture a day” type thing about my life in Japan.

Hopefully most of my posts will be shorter than this one!

About the picture: This is the snow in Matsunoyama where I teach once a week. I’m from Florida so the snow (and mountains) still give me occasional panic attacks. But it sure is pretty. Taken on my iPhone.

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I received my placement about a week ago. It looks like I'll be teaching in Niigata! Apparently it snows there which should be fun since I've never seen snow in my life. I don't even own a long sleeve shirt! Still, I'm excited! I'm finally going to be a JET!