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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
8:38 pm	so yeah. Dads home for weekends now. comes home fridays, goes back mondays. College is going great, no probs so far with the teaching; Yes lots of mistakes but thats part of the course ain't it! The students are lovely too that helps. Works ok, even though i do hate some stupid people, blah moan at me for writing and drawing, why do i do it? Who f***ing cares, i don't know why i do. i'm bored, i doodle. simple as that. get a life! p.s. love the late 70's/early 80s glam rock/new romantic group Japan and their singer david sylvian, his voice is amazing and they are so friggin cool. his solo stuff is so kick ass awsome too! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
11:19 pm	update Ok i should do an update, i think my last entry was years ago... Ok its kinda difficult as its all a bit personal: about two months ago i recieved a text from my brother saying dads been taken in hospital and its series, i read it and was pretty well freaking out at work. I went to the RUH where i met my mum and brother and all they could tell me was that it was serious and they didn't think my dad would make it. Later the doctors came and told us he was still alive but in a state, so he was in the intensive care unit. For the first week we kept going there but he was pretty much out of it. at first they thought it was a heart attack at work, then they thought it could be brain damage etc, eventually they realised it was a neck injury and sent him to bristol for an operation to sort out the damage to the neck and hopefully he could heal. the operation was a success so my dads neck is stable, but fragile, but the damage that was done due to the accident was that it cut into his nerves so he could not move or feel anything. They believed it could, could, come back. As the weeks have gone by my dad has regained some feeling in his body (a bit like having pins and needles) and can move all of his body but its very week, he can only slightly move his fingers and arms etc but its something he can work on. They want to send him to a specialist place in salisbury where they can hopefully help him make a complete recovery. Its been 8 weeks but hes come leaps and bounds since then, hes on solids and they are getting him walking and he seems to be getting stronger.the healing process can take between 6 months to a year or two. he is still at the RUH so we go there everyday but he is making good progress that is brilliant. it now turns out we know what happens, the digger bucket at work landed on my dads head giving him the injury. The guys responsible have been trying to cover it up saying he just fainted (even though the doctors never believed that due to the injuries) and they also moved dad that added to the damage (they moved him away from the digger so no suspicions would fall on them) so dads in hospital, his so called mates screwed him over and are making it out like he is lying and, well, shit. on the plus side hes making good progress, really good! Aside from all that... I'm starting a evening course at bath college from sept-march in teaching english as a foreign language so i can be qualified to teach when i go to japan (and have experience) my japanese is going great, making lots of new friends and have huge plans for when i go there. However i'm now not sure if i shall be going over in 2009 or 2010. I will apply in sept this year if i go 2009 but i don't want to go if dad isn't in a good position. i might have to wait a year so that dad will be home and settled. Dad says "go!" but i am mixed about it, i want to but i don't feel i can til dads better. If, by sept, hes in salisbury and making superb progress then maybe as by august 2009 he might be home (should be!) blah, thats it, i'm blogged out til 2011 (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
1:55 pm	i've been working in the roman baths for over a year now thats cool. Ahh soon i shall have to see about applying for a part time course in teachin english as a foreign language. and in september i need to apply to go to Japan. Lots of things i need to do soon, forms and all that crap. Oh well.... Current Music: hot love by t-rex (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
9:48 pm	yeah i'm still here Um, what have i been doing? Working went to brighton for a week. carried on studying japanaese...actually i'm really chuffed as i've started having tutorials from last week and i'm amazed at how much i can understand and also say. i seem to be mastering this language slowly! Next year when i'm in Japan i'll be like getting really good hehe. Oh made a few japanese friends who have sent me MILLIONS of things from yokohama that makes me happy! listening to 60's pyschedelic songs thats always good. Reading spending time with my Cats etc. oh by the way, the orphange is a really good film but about 0% scary. seriouslly, watch it cos its good but don't think its scary cos it just isn't! Current Music: the first step on the moon by the cape kennedy construction company (Comment on this)
Friday, February 8th, 2008
10:32 pm	now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of york. (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
10:03 pm	i'm still alive. can;t be bothered with this really but... well 2008, whats in store...well here is my plans: a) learn to be more self efficent, aka learn to cook proper food etc not just snacks or the bare minimum. b) carry on with my japanese big time. revision, learn new stuff and just carry on carrying on as i've been doing since 2006. c) take the next stage in the JLPT test (if i passed the last one that is) d) take a teaching course at college so i can teach english as a language. e) apply to the jet programme so that i can go to japan to teach in 2009. thats my plans, the last two i can't start until sept, and c) i can't until december but til then i can learn to cook real meals and carry on with my japanese studies. p.s. meiko kaji is friggin awsome. check out any film with her in, they are usually violent and sick but goddam she is the coolest person EVER (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
9:07 pm	oh i have a livejournal page.... um, why? (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
10:18 pm	Not dead yet ok thought i would post just to show i'm not dead yet. ok what to say... i've been made permanment at the roman baths thats cool. this summer/autumn (as i just missed it this time around) i'm taking a CELTA course part time that means i will be offically qualified to teach english abroad (aka Japan) i was going to apply to the Jet programme this year but as it ends in november and i need a) a statement from my employees (ok that would be easy) b) one from my uni (that would take forever) and c) one from my doctor... i won't make it in time. still that gives me time to save money, get a CELTA qualification, become more self effiecent, improve my japanese and get ready for when i apply next september. i'm kinda confident i will get in as i'm applying for all the right reasons, however IF for some fucked up reason, i don't get in i'm looking for other programmes and ways. even if it means flying to japan with my own money and taking a Job. i've pretty much decided that what i want to do in life (other than being an author, but that's not a job more a hobby lol) is teach English in Japan and getting a CELTA would mean i can. of course Japan is one of the few counties where just speaking the language is enough to get you a job teaching English but i wanna go there and be able to get a job 100% for sure. so either way i'm going to Japan in 2009 to teach and live, of course if i really hate it i can come back, but we'll see. i doubt i will as its a dream of mine. The jet programme is a year or two and i hope i do get in because it gives me experience as teaching before becoming a solo teacher and also means when there i can look for full time work when the period runs out. plus they would help me with this. if Jet don't want me i will burn their offices and go over to japan and find work in a school and spend the rest of my time burning all the remaning offices. Ok thats all bullshit and don't hold it against me! so anyway, that gives me the rest of this year, 2008 and up to july 2009 to enjoy life in Bath and carry on loving working at the roman baths before i go. i'm excited but nervous as f*** about going (and its 2007!) i want to take my cats but i'm gonna visit the UK every year so blah. (Comment on this)
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
10:55 pm	ok, yes another annoying post by me.. but i just noticed on yesasia that the albums ray and ark both have 15th anniversary editions with dvds. are these any good? they are region 3 dvds so i can't play them, but i just wondered if its worth getting those versions or the originals? they seem cheaper too on yesasia than the japanese cds. sadly those are the only 15th anniversary editions i can find on there. but is it pointless of me to get them as i can't play the dvds, or is the packaging so mind blowingly awsome that i have to get them? cheers. Current Music: it's sad by hyde (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
6:23 pm	i'm going to japan next year. my nan left me about £600 so i figure i would rather do something worthwhile with it than waste the money on crap. she would rather i did something like this i'm sure. i'm going into town tomorrow to open a savings account to save enough money for a trip to japan next summer, but also to save money for when i go to live the year after. i'm also gonna get my hair cut and coloured cos, hell i wanna. the roman baths are keeping me on full time, BUT, i need to do an interview and application form all over again, *sigh* but its all for prodedure ya see. other than that, i have this week off so i'm gonna put some adds up in bath college, bath spa uni, and bath uni looking for japanese students to practice their english and my japanese skills together. apart from that... i'm just gonna spend this week falling in love with Gackt and L'arc en ciel (and hyde's) music and voices even more. mind you i can't love those guys enough! i got a letter from a japanese customer today, they thought i stayed in japan and studied there....they are just being polite, my japanese isn't that good haha. but still, it makes me happy. yes yes i'm vain. Current Music: a drop of colour by hyde (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
9:04 pm	my computer is broke, again, so we're getting it fixed. i got paid a few days ago and for the first time in years i'm 400 odd in credit. of course i've just bought two hyde solo albums, two gackt singles, one glay single and album, and a lar'c en ciel album so i'm not so rich now... but oh well. i have a weel off soon so i'm gonna do some past papers for the JLPT test and then decide, depending on how well i do, which level to enter. gah thats another fifty quid gone... probably be overdrawn again by the end of the month. but after this month i should be in credit forever lol. making lots of japanese friends and meeting and chatting to them lately, thats always good. also in my week off i need to put some ads in some unis and colleges for people to chat to. well thats me and my life. i love glay and love this song Current Mood: flirty Current Music: missing you by glay (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
10:06 pm	does anyone here have a facebook profile? apparently i had one, news to me, but i do, so anyway i've started using it more and more and might use it more than LJ now as more people i know seem to have that lol. so if you have it let me know and i can add you! (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 20th, 2007
9:14 pm	chuffed. there's a new girl who works in the roman baths, no the shop i'm afraid, called Yuka. shes only here for ten days as work experience before going elsewhere in the uk, that sucks big time. anyway we met up today for some hot chocolate and a good long chat in japanese. well mostly japanese with bits of english thrown in when i couldn't understand bits or couldn't say bits haha. anyway it made me feel great to have a proper conversation and to actually understand what shes saying reall clearly. most of the time i understood, thats great as i've been worrying about that a lot. anyway we're gonna meet up again before she goes on thursday and she might be popping back into bath before going back to japan. i'm thinking of maybe going to japan next summer instead of the summer after but then again....money. thats whats holding me back really as i do really want some saved for emergencies. anyway i have yuka's address and email address and she has mine so we're gonna keep in touch :) so all is good. even if i do have to work from 9 til 9 tomorrow....uggg. Current Mood: hyper Current Music: war pigs by black sabbath (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
10:44 pm	i want to be david bowie. Current Music: 悲しみトワイライト by　モニング娘。 (Comment on this)
Friday, July 13th, 2007
10:18 pm	shit i really need to sort myself out financially. i am spending too much money. i'm not spending more than i'm earning, but as the money i'm earning goes into my overdraft it means that i'm not actually better off. by the time i get paid i'll still be 200/300 pounds overdrawn. that means, if i try and spend less than 100/200 pounds next month i should be at least a hundred or two in credit so that when i get paid in sept things will be a lot lot better for me lol. damn its hard not to spend money hahaha. it really is! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
9:57 pm	suppose i should update my LJ. basically in a few sentences... work is going great. still love it and still get to use lots of japanese. ok sometimes its wrong, sometimes i can't understand what someone is saying...but its getting better bit by bit. having useful advice and learning from my mistakes is paying off. i have late nights coming up, that basically means for a few days i work from 9-9 so that will be kinda a long day. uggg. but oh well, think of the money jamie.. i need to! i'm still overdrawn despite having two payslips. i am now about £500 overdrawn, over £600 by the time i get paid so i will be down to about £100 overdrawn i guess. so hopefully the following payslip, augusts, i'll be in the pink. hurrah! i need my hair cut, i wanna grow it long and wanna get my ears peirced, but i need my hair stylised as its just going long and messy that is NOT good. gah have to do that next week. oh i also put up an add for a japanese pal to talk to. so hopefully a student wanting to practice english might reply and help me. ahhh one last thing, Miki fujimoto has a friggin awazing voice. love it to bits. ok i'm done. see you next month! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
10:33 pm	Doctor who and Jet well doctor who was pretty good wasn't it? the week before was better but i have always loved the master. nobody else saw it coming in my house, but i knew witrh derek jacobi he had to play the master! but wheres the goatee? he always has a goatee! oh, i've decided to enter the Jet programme next year. yuko said i should as most people who apply know little if any japanese so i will know more than enough and by the end of it i'll probably be fluent (or nearly...) so if i apply in 2008 i'll be going to japan hopefully in april/may 2009. that gives me two years to save money (or try to) and work on my japanese. i've been doing it for over a year now, so thats three years studying before i go...that should hopefully make me good enough to get by. and whilst i'm out there i'm gonna avoid westerns lol. that way i'll be forced to speak and understand japanese so much that i should be very very good by the end of my year. and maybe then stay there if i like it. the only downside is i wanna take my cats, but i know i won't be able to. its gonna break my heart leaving them behind, especially as they are so attached to me...gah i don't wanna think about it :( i'll miss them most of all! haha. oh. love my new icon. miki fujimoto....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Current Music: love マシンーン by モーニング娘。 (Comment on this)
Friday, June 15th, 2007
11:58 pm	why do american films like hannibal rising have chinese women play japanese women? are they just really really stupid or don't they care? especially seeing as how china still hates japan (get over it already jeez) (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
11:19 pm	ok so i'm gonna grow my hair long so i have nice long blonde hair. i want it stylised as its annoying at the mo, but i can't (won't) as they will fuck it up and i will have to have it cut properly and start again.. i'm gonna have my ears done and wear dangling girly earrings too. i'll look like a girl but blah, i love being feminine haha. maybe i should start wearing make up? hah. actually i would wear eyeliner, thats about it, but i might wear it. no lipstick though....uggg. p.s. this song is offically my third fave song ever after the beatles a day in the life (no.1) and bowies life on mars (no.2.) its friggin incredible. and gackt is so goddam sexy.and thats coming from someone who doesn't usually fancy guys lol Current Music: au revoir by malice mizer (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
9:49 pm	how much does it cost to get your ears pierced? i'm thinking of getting both mine done. have long dangling fancy earings :D ahh gotta buy a kimono at some point too. its funny, at work i get japanese customers say how good my japanese is, but yet all i do is say a few lines haha. they're so polite its kinda cute. bless em! Current Music: etude by gackt (Comment on this)