Brian’s Japan Adventure

It’s been a few days, and I finally have a bit of a break to fill everyone in on what’s happening.

I finished and turned in my final big Independent Master’s Portfolio, and assuming all goes well with that, they will send my Master’s degree right after Thanksgiving. If they DON’T like it, then they’ll tell me to make some revisions, which will be difficult overseas without my books and research stuff. I have some notes online, but it would be difficult if not impossible to do any serious rewrites. Let’s just hope they like it; I put plenty of time and thought into it, it think it’ll be fine.

Other than that, there were no great dramatic happenings over the past few days. I filled out various forms for graduation and bought some traveling supplies.

The only news of interest here from Japan is that I will be teaching THREE kindergarten classes on Wednesdays as well as two groups of adult students Wednesday afternoon and evenings.  I don’t know for sure, but I think that’s all I am going to be doing next week. They will add more courses gradually as various other schools return from their breaks. So that sounds pretty easy for a first week. I’m sure there will be plenty of adjusting on my end, so easy is good.

The other bit of good news is that two of the Japanese exchange students who came here to Dayton last week will be meeting with me on Saturday. For those readers who met them here, it’s Lui and Shingo.  That’s really neat go go that far away to someplace I’ve never been and have friends waiting.  Hopefully they can show me the good places to shop and get settled.

I have to be at the airport VERY early in the morning, and I’m pretty sure it will be a waste of time to even TRY to sleep tonight, so I have a long one ahead of me. That’s OK, it’ll make the long leg of my plane ride that much easier if I sleep through it.

And so this is my last posting from the Western Hemisphere until sometime in March.  My next posting will be straight from the “land of the rising sun.”

Sayonara!

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