Has it almost been a year already? It seems so. I'm not ready to think about packing and moving yet. Yes, I am a bit homesick and want to go back to the States, but at the same time, there's still stuff that I would like to do here. We haven't made it to Kyoto yet, or the Naruto whirlpool. I have yet to experience an onsen (pregnant ladies aren't allowed, and neither are kids under six years old) or kabuki or karaoke. We have also wanted to explore Kobe with some friends of ours. We've been trying to get together almost since we arrived. It still hasn't happened yet either.
And we don't have a job to go back to, which is kind of scary. I've been looking since September too, when half of Mark's co-workers had to leave Japan because of visa problems and we thought the school was going to financially crash and burn. Mark's been looking since December. There is a Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) job that he may be up for near Osaka, and if we were going to stay, it would be for an ALT because they work in the public school system and have normal 8-5 hours and weekends off. So there is that possibility, but we're not sure how much of a possibility it is. Either way, it still means moving.
