Inaugural Blog! Whee!

So here it is. After five years, I've finally returned to blogging. Of course, the last time I had a webpage, it wasn't even called blogging. But that's not important. What is important is that I made it to Japan. I'm now working as an Assistant Language Teacher in the JET Program, and am posted at Tsushima High School, in Izuhara-machi, Tsushima-shi, Nagasaki-ken. Tsushima is an island of 40,000 people situated between Kyushu--Japan's westernmost main island--and South Korea. Izuhara is a town of about 6,000. For you Google Maps junkies out there, the names of stuff in Japan will be in Japanese. But fear not: the kanji for Tsushima is 対馬; for Izuhara,
厳原. Copy and paste those into word, blow them up to size 72 or so, and you'll have an idea of what to look for on the map. (Hint: I'm the one on the southwest coast with the anchor by the name.)

So I'm not sure what I'll do with this space yet. I'd like to keep it from devolving into a digest of rants and negativity about the bad parts of my day, but at the same time, I'd like for it to serve as a journal of my life here, since God knows I'm too lazy to keep a handwritten one. With that in mind, my posts will probably more often than not be addressed to myself. Anyway. This should also help me track the degradation of my English speaking ability, as I spend the year surrounded by ESL folks. Yay!