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When will she start learning to play mahjong?
 

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Why do I keep hearing the same story all the time? Why do they say they'll renew your contract when at the last minute it's "sorry, but no"? I hope one of these days something happens and they have to start treating people decently again.
 

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A lot of foreigners over here desperately want to have a visa. I know stories of people that begged to get a visa, they practise how to cry in front of the employer and they are willing to work for 15-18 hours a day, 600 yen per hour just in order to obtain the visa. I know one guy that brought his papers for a shot gun wedding to Japan, just in case. ::meev::


We started negotiations again. Maybe......
 

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That...sucks. I'm really sorry to hear it. Did they at least say why they won't renew your your contract?

I forgot Bolivia was in South America and not Central. What a loser.
 

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faith wrote:
I forgot Bolivia was in South America and not Central. What a loser.
Who cares where it is? XD In today's world the answer to all "where is it" questions is "A few weeks by container ship".
But do you know what natural resource makes them important?

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I know one guy that brought his papers for a shot gun wedding to Japan, just in case
Did he have someone in mind or was he just going to find someone at the last second? :lol:
Sorry to hear about your contract though. Seems like being a teacher is universally a rough gig these days :(
 

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flowersofnight wrote:
Seems like being a teacher is universally a rough gig these days :(

Yeah it is... My sister had a terrible time getting a gig in South Korea... A "reputable" hired her and she was all ready to fly out (Had everything lined up... Visa, legal documentation, all packed...) and 3 days before her flight, they canceled at the last minute and told her they couldn't hire her. After about a week of barraging them with e-mails, they finally responded to her, telling her that they had rented a room to house lessons but that contract had fallen through and they couldn't hire her because they didn't have the space. They offered to reimburse her for some of the cost and we never heard from them again. If you think getting a sponsored working visa is hard in a foreign country, you should try canceling one ::beat::

She gave up on South Korea and taught English in Saudi Arabia instead, so make of that what you will ::shifty::
 

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A "reputable" hired her
they had rented a room to house lessons
They don't sound very reputable if they don't even have a lesson room XD I think your sister might have dodged a bullet there.
 

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flowersofnight wrote:
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I forgot Bolivia was in South America and not Central. What a loser.
Who cares where it is? XD In today's world the answer to all "where is it" questions is "A few weeks by container ship".
But do you know what natural resource makes them important

Dictatorship! But I disagree regardless. I think knowing where countries are is very important. Except in middle Africa.
 

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@ faith no not really.

@ flowers he had a couple of female friends that he asked but he also asked random Japanese females to marry him. ::meev::
 

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@ flowers no ::kisaki::

and one day, he came to our dorm really depressed. we asked him why. he told us that he wanted to have sex with a female but none wanted to. i told him that two females wanted to grab my breasts during work and our housemate from finland told him, that she had a girlfriend. then he was annoyed and left the house again. ::meev::
 

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This week I've been doing LatinoJustice's LawBound program and it's been a blast!

We visited law schools, had great guest speakers, visited the attorney general's office, did workshops, etc. I've learned a ton about the different types of law! The attorney general's office was full of good, friendly people and I love how frank they were and how a lot of LatinoJustice "alumni" are there too.

Today we visited Verizon Wireless' offices and met with the general counsel and their attorneys, and I was SO inspired. The people are great, passionate, humble and I really liked the atmosphere. I never knew being in house counsel would be that way. I didn't know much about it at all actually. But I left feeling, "I WANT TO BE GENERAL COUNSEL!" ::gaku:: The senior VP/general counsel went to my mom's college, and so we talked a lot about that, haha. He was so friendly. The attorneys love what they do, and they told us their paths to their current positions, and you really don't know what life will throw at you. :D

Tomorrow we'll visit Cleary & Gottlieb's offices, and the next day we're going to court I think. I'm so grateful for this opportunity. It's as if LatinoJustice is EVERYWHERE. Whether they're former board members, LJ attorneys, interns, Lawbound scholars, it's as if they're in all these places and want to help future Latino/Latina leaders and that's wonderful ^^;

This is nerdy of me, but our guest speaker today went off on a tangent and said how one older male student came to her and was crying and extremely upset because his wife was cheating on him. He didn't know what to do, and so she advised him to get out of the city for a few days to clear his head and expose himself to something new. He ended up doing a law school program in Australia. When he came back to speak to her, he had a bounce in his step and was all smiles--he was a new person! She was like, "What happened?!" and he said he divorced his wife, found someone new (who he married), and even started a business. Moral of the story: change of scenery is really great for you when you're having a bad time, learning about a different culture too. I raised my hand and said, "I AGREE! ::batsu::"
 

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@ Faith I asked my boss today. The school has some internal changes and therefore they cannot keep me. But my boss told me that he helps me if I do have problems.

But I do have a job interview with a school in Osaka today. They seem to be very interested.
 

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@shazzer : I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you, and hope you can get that visa and stay longer.
 

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I just learned Slovenia is further south than Austria. Woah.
So yeah goal is to learn where every country is in the world.
It's not like it's a huge task, considering I already know everything but south east Europe and central Africa though.

And lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZjqucrn ... e=youtu.be
 

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I was surprised that they didn't say "two ten", "three ten" etc, which would be the most natural guess for a Japanese speaker with no clue.

Saw this article about independent bookstores the other day:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/busin ... ml?hp&_r=0
Makes me think I should go to the Strand more often but who's got the time?

Got un-stuck in manga translating this weekend, got another 10 pages done yesterday. Criminally slow by professional standards, I bet they want 10 pages an hour if you're getting paid for it ::meev:: Good thing I'm not.
 

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lol 10 pages an hour? That's like, dinosaur pace. I'm not sure exactly what it would be but try a page a minute...unless you're talking about placing the text and everything too.


Why did it take me so long to start listening to Buck Tick?
I'm not gay so I don't have a THING for Atsushi Sakurai but their songs are really catchy.
 
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