#ex pat

[teethpaste]

I love my friends in Ireland! I love meeting random ex pats on accident!

[ramblinggaijin]

Continuation of my last post. But I’m sure you’re wondering what’s after JET?

Well it’s interesting.

I loved my town a lot. But there aren’t many job opportunities here.

I did accept a job that places me about an hour from here.

Wiiiith Interac. If you know you know. But if you’re lost, they’re a dispatch ALT company. And dispatch ALT companies don’t have the best reputation for reasons.

I do have to relocate to where this position is located. But I’m glad it’s not too far from here.

Buut there is a twist! Or an interesting development? But it makes things twisty for sure. XD

Around the same time I applied for Interac, I also applied for a government position in a town a bit closer.

The process has been agonizingly slow. But I’m in the final stages of the application process and currently waiting to hear when the final interview is.

And thanks to a connection I have, rumor is the interview is likely a formality at this point.

Buuut nothing official yet. However, given that we have already met once and the number of emails we have now exchanged (50ish) and they have gone above and beyond to try and figure out visa stuff and other things, I would be shocked if it didn’t go through.

If it goes through, I’ll have to move again. But the job is really good so it’d be worth it.

In the mean time, for the next 2 days, I will just be taking a final load of things up to the new apt, final bit of tidying up the old place, and enjoying my town’s local festival one more time.

The past 5 years have been a wild ride. But I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

If you’re thinking about JET, do it. It really is life changing.

My small group of followers, thank you for sticking around for all this time.

There are ups and downs. And being an ALT is not for everyone. And that’s okay!

I generally loved it and I was willing to keep doing it a bit longer even if it meant a pay cut.

But I’m also realizing there are other things I want to try. And if this other job doesn’t go through, I can still work towards finding a similar job in the future.

It’s hard saying goodbye. Even though I’m not moving too far, this place has been my home for 5 years now. It might as well be home now.

As for this blog, I’m not quitting it. But as to whether it’ll be about ALTing or general Japan stuff, that depends on what happens in the next few weeks.

But for now, goodbye JET. Goodbye my dear town and friends. And possibly goodbye to teaching English. It’s been a fun ride.

I’ll see you all later.

This is Ramblinggaijin here.

A now former Tohoku JET. 2019-2024. Didn’t know any Japanese, never went abroad before, and didn’t have any teaching experience before coming here.

Best 5 years ever.

Peace out for now everyone.

Until the next update.

See you soon!

[the-end-is-kigh]

I got like 2 and a half hours sleep last night, and I'm trying to stay up until at least 2am tonight. Why? Seriously, it's 10:50pm and I'm already exhausted.

[volunteerismandanarchy]

Japan

Estonia

Spain

Finland

Netherlands

[tusecretadmirer2]

This man knows how to tease us so well🤩 I’ll never get tired of him 🥵 it’s hard to believe he is still in his twenties 🤯 needless to say this is one twenty something that I’d LOVE to cook a big meal for him just to see him rub his full belly afterwards! 😍 but o guess that is what dreams are for 😉

[gourdyshome]

patrick falling in love with you and then self-destructing as he always does by going and fucking other girls. maybe even ones you know. sleeping around, showing off his newest piece of ass every weekend. grinning like a bobcat in pictures, his eyes dull and devoid of joy. he misses you, god does he miss you. your laugh and your hair and the way you smell and yeah he misses the sex but mostly he misses the way you'd hold him when you fell asleep afterwards. like you never wanted to let go. and then he had to go and wrench your hands off of him, like he always does.

[jonasiegenthaler]

sui v swe | 02.05.24

[snekjin]

i am hitting them with a stick (x)

[saturnyukaa]

giggling very hard thinking about tristeva at yumalia’s wedding because while i KNOW tot heavily rushed the wedding so we barely saw any reactions (or much of. yknow, ANYTHING.), they were most definitely sobbing uncontrollably and clutching onto eachother for dear life the entire time

[gomzdrawfr]

To draw later, but I kinda wanna do a doodle where Raven and Nik first met each other

[1nt3rnalpu7ref4ct10n]

s1e4

[ramblinggaijin]

Staff transfers here have been amazing so far! Mainly cuz at my JHS an awesome JTE I worked with at another school came in. And at my ES it’s mostly folks from the smaller ES that closed and a few folks that I had worked with or met prior!

Just a shame this is happening a few months before I finish JET. Gonna enjoy it while I can.

[spacerangersam]

i think roleswap fanny and pat would commiserate over their best friend/crush having such an abysmal milk toast taste in men

[d3vdgvrrll]

no one compares to you so i do drugs to forget. i’m much weaker than you thought i was

[tusecretadmirer2]

the way a Doctor touches a body is always so hot to me 🥵🥵 with with a guy like this it looks like no matter how much lips he gets he is a Fatboy at heat 😍