In one of my all too common “crap I know I need to do that but I’ll do it later” moments I neglected to update this blog with news that I have moved to Jakemauer.com. If you are still for whatever reason receiving this feed or visiting this site you must’ve wondered what the hell happend and why are all the posts in disarray? I intended to unpublish every post leaving only this message. Turns out that Wordpress saves revisions and puts them next to your actual posts. Which, as it turns out, is a huge pain in the ass when you want to unpublish them as it’s all by hand. That’s the story. In the next month Mauerpower.net will be repurposed as something else. Now go and enjoy the rest of the constantly updated interwebs.
Primetime
23Mar09I sat in the passenger’s seat going back and forth. We were already 5k past my house when I couldn’t take it anymore and I asked her to turn the car around.
Late Night
23Mar09A few bullet points while I sit here and (not)plan tomorrow’s test review lesson.
My predecessor Kush is still cruising Japan with time and money that he saved up while as a JET. He’s staying at my place tonight while he works out more semi-permanent housing for when he’s in town. Anytime spent with one’s predecessor is an unusual experience as I’ve mentioned before. For 95% of JET’s, their pred is on a plane to America days after they arrive in Tokyo blearly eyed and unaware of what awaits them. If they’re lucky their predecessor has left sheets of instructions concerning how to work the crazy appliances and showers and if they’re really lucky, some information on the actual job they’ve gotten themselves into.
Initially I had just the notes. But Kush has stayed in Japan because he really enjoys it here, and because he can afford to. This has given the both of us opportunities to discuss the in’s and out’s of teaching and living in Tsuru. When I first came to Japan and started teaching I continually beat myself up for not knowing what the hell I was doing, and I acted on that by convincing myself that I was replacing someone who was obviously more competent and respected than I would be.
