A month ago I recieved a message on my answering machine from the JET programme, offering me a job in Japan teaching english! After I finished jumping up and down and screaming: "Im going to JAPAN, im going to JAPAN!!", I gave notice at my (much loved) job as a bookseller at Kidsbooks, told my landlords I would be moving, gave away most of my possessions, packed up what I had left, and got ready to leave for Japan. On the 24th of this month I will be moving to Kofu, a city in the Yamanashi prefector. It is a medium size city (about 200,000 people), 1 hr 1/2 from Tokyo, with a view of Mt. Fuji. I will be paying only 60$ (canadian) a month to live in a townhome near other JET participants. What could be better?I am so blessed right now to have such a great family and really great friends who are giving me lots of farewell love. Thanks to my mom who bought me some amazing luggage, my sister Angelina who was kind enough to give me some of her clothes, my brother Victor who has given me his laptop to take with me, and my brother Chris who, last night, threw the best drunkin' pumpkin carving night ever! Special thanks to my dad who has invited me into his home for the last 12 days I'm in Canada. Also thanks to all the awesome staff at Kidsbooks who invited me out for such a nice goodbye dinner; you guys treated me like family, even though I had worked at the store for two months only. I will miss everyone so much when I am in Japan.
I will post pictures soon of all the things I have been up to in this crazy, but wonderful, period in my life.
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