Greetings and salutations

Hi, my name is Jess and my toon is Hakutaku. I'm an American living in Japan. Although I've been playing WOW since the beta stress test I dont have many high level toons. My friends keep changing servers on me. Plus when I moved to Japan the timezone gap was killing me. Huray for Oceanic servers!! Anyway, I'll stop here before I ramble too much. See you in game.

Haha, I have the same sob story with friends moving servers, haku, on a bright side i have a 30+ lock on just about every server now -.-

How come you moved to Japan?

Hey a new forum poster
If you ever need any help in game just let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Oh and what's it like living in Japan? Don't really know many people from Japan so I thought I'd ask . Anyway good to meet you .

Welcome to the guild, and finnaly another person on the forums ^_^

Anyhow, I'd like to see the anwsers to those questions, but I am kinda sleepy atm (was awake for35 hours straight, the last 24 in front of a screen with a controller in hand for some charity event at school... sweet) and just got up. Btu I'll be on soon!

I got a job teaching English through the embassy. The job program is called J.E.T. (Japan Exchange Teaching). I teach in the junior high schools and sometimes elementary. Its a great job, but the 'teaching English' part is a bit of a joke most of the time. The school system really isn't set up to teach languages very well. I love my job anyway.

Living in Japan can be a bit strange at times. Its not like in Anime where everything is all shiny, high tech, and glam. In fact most of my friends and co-workers are pretty computer illiterate.

I love living here because the people can be really nice, but some things kinda suck. Heating and air-conditioning is my favorite gripe. Pretty much every house/apartment is uninsulated and poorly heated/air-conditioned. Plus the school rooms have NO heating/air-conditioning. Enough griping from me. Good parts of Japan are excellent public transport, good food, odd-ball TV, public health care (coming from the US this is a big deal), and many more.

I think that covers the basics. If you have any more questions or just want to hear more I can post more later. I'm currently staying up way too late and need to get to sleep.

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to live in a country without robust public health care, the idea of having no safety net scares the hell out of me. How long have you been teaching english?

Loving your avatar btw

I'd love to try the food some day . It's somewhat of a surprise to hear that heating/air conditioning isn't up to standard, just not something you would expect . I have heard that the health care system is excellent though.
Good to have you on the forums

nice i was ment to go rife in Japan but i had to turn it down =( oh yeah and im back =P

Hey Hakutaku

(FYI Animes not wrong, YOUR wrong! )

I started teaching English when I came to Japan. In the US I got my degree in Art Education, but being an Art Teacher kinda sucked. I'm in the middle of my 3rd year of teaching in Japan. I've got another 2 years available at my current job and then I need to figure out what the heck I'm going to do next.

Gotta love LFG avatars

My avatar represents druids... BETTER ^_^ (dis's one and blink's are pretty good I must say)

Thanks Nights... I quite like syn's avatar though

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Thanks Nights... I quite like syn's avatar though

Which ava... oh that one! Real nice! I forgot that one, I never saw it until you mentioned it!