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• Katy

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• stayed alive for 28+ years
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• 1997
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• Sailor Moon, Naruto, Spirited Away, all things CLAMP, all things Gundam
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• to not freeze during my first Japanese winter!
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• Rollerblading, Writing, Drawing, Reading, Karate
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Friday, April 6, 2007

Thursday's child has far to go...

That's a line from this little rhyme about all the days of the week, and yes I was born on a Thursday. I'll explain it's importance in a minute. But first....hello everyone!! I'm sorry for my long absence *bows* but as you can guess I have been very busy. I am actually busier than ever now, but I am going to make a concerted effort over the next few months to reconnect with my old friends here and on MySpace. After I make this post I'm going to redecorate this site and then answer my PMs and begin commenting to people at least once a week again, hopefully...I know, I've said that a lot, but this time I have a good reason to really try.

So the 'Thursday's child' poem goes like this:
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child works hard for a living,
Saturday's child is loving and giving,
But the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe and good and gay

Yeah...so as you can guess it's a really old poem because obviously they're using 'gay' to mean 'happy' and also it's a bit of a religious thing because they're basically saying that kids born on Sunday are better than others, but.....all that weird stuff aside, I've always remembered it because my mom embroidered my line on this picture that was above my bed for basically my entire childhood. I guess I should warn you at this point that this might be kind of a long post. Sorry for that, but if you don't want to read all of it skim down to the bold capital letter part and read that at least. So anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, so my whole life I've been repeating in my head "Thursday's child has far to go" whenever I couldn't decide what to do about something. And I've always felt like I should do a lot of interesting things and visit interesting places because of it. I'd say I've definitely fulfilled that goal in my nearly 28 years of life to the best of my ability. I've been to almost half the states in the US and 6 European countries, and now I'M GOING TO JAPAN PEOPLE!!!! That's right, you heard right, let me start a new paragraph...

I'M MOVING TO JAPAN!!! Let me explain. Back in December I applied for something called the Japan Exchange Teaching Program (JET). I didn't want to talk about it too much at first in case I didn't get it, in fact I didn't even tell my parents about it until February when I found out I'd passed the application process and had to go for an interview. Well, my dad took me down to Miami in the end of February for the interview and I was totally psyched thinking "I'm totally gonna wow these people" and it went really badly. I had to wait for almost 3 hours because they were backed up from the earlier interviews and by the time I got in there I felt like I couldn't present myself as well as I would've liked. I guess it wasn't as bad as I thought though b/c I got an email 2 days ago saying I'd been picked as an ALT! What that means is that now they're looking for a middle or high school in Japan to place me in as an Assistant Language Teacher. That means I'll work with a Japanese teacher for a year teaching English to kids! I'm soooo excited! They did say that "in a limited number of cases we can not find placements for all our candidates" but I think it's a pretty slim chance that I'm not going at this point so it's ok to talk about it. I should find out my placement next month and then I'll be leaving on August 5th! I can't wait!!

OK, so I guess I am a little bit nervous about going, but I've been doing a lot to get ready. I'm cleaning out my apartment and AJ-kun and I are selling a bunch of our old anime stuff on ebay. I'll post a link here once the listings have started if anyone's interested. My dad is getting me a laptop for my birthday so I'll still be able to keep in touch with everyone while I'm gone. I've been taking Japanese lessons on my iPod from Japanesepod101.com (I highly recommend it for anyone who has an iPod and wants a quick and easy way to learn the basics) and reading up on Japanese culture and history everywhere I can. I also started taking Karate (although not really for the same reasons) with the kids I babysit and it's really fun!

So...I guess that's all I have for now. If you sent me a PM you can look for an answer soon. And watch for my new site design later today. I'm on Spring Break now so if anyone else is be sure to live it up! Have a great Friday everyone! *hugs* Ja ne!
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