Top 5 Lists
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Actually I copied this idea from a fellow Fukushima JET's site, but she copied the goals idea from me and told me so we are even. Plus I copied other things in the past from other people so no worries it's all cool. |
| Favorite Movies | |
| Shawshank Redemption | |
| Indiana Jones Triology | |
| Happy Gilmore / Billy Madison | |
| Star Wars (3,4,5) | |
| Tommy Boy | |
| Favorite TV Shows | |
| Alias | |
| CSI | |
| Scrubs | |
| Conan O'Brien Show | |
| The Practice | |
| Favorite Websites | |
| http://www.deanandnigel.co.uk/pages/New%20Photos%20Page.html - They dress as locals and get their pictures made | |
| http://www.travelpig.co.uk My pig is Darwin | |
| http://www.google.com Great Search Engine | |
| http://www.mulletsgalore.com/ - the name says it all | |
| http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/bigh/bigh/pylonof.htm - Too much free time, my kinda site | |
| Favorite Pastimes | |
| See Google above | |
| See Alias, CSI, Scrubs above | |
| Eating Gyoza | |
| Studying Japanese | |
| Creating websites in Cold Fusion | |
| Funniest things I've ever done | |
| Knocking off the C on a Fast Food Hamburger place's sign that said "Now Hiring Closers". | |
| A synchronized swimming routine to Final Countdown, with Doug Weider in Chad Duncan's pool graduation night, high school. | |
| Creating a tape of a baby crying and me screaming at it and then playing the tape on full blast at a local Department Store's stereo area. | |
| Writing a note to a teacher and acting like the principal wrote it, THEN actually getting the principal to hand it to the teacher. | |
| Creating chaos at my last company by using Microsoft's anonymous NETSEND command. It pops up a message on your computer. | |
| Coolest things I've done in Japan | |
| Seen the most photographed shrine in Japan | |
| Seen the 30 foot statue of Buddha in Kamakura | |
| Seen 1 of three coolest Lantern Festivals in Nihonmatsu (twice) | |
| Stayed in a Capsule Hotel | |
| Taken a bath with 100 guys I didn't know. | |
| Things I really want to do while here (in Japan) | |
| See the Sapporo Ice Festival | |
| Go to Thailand | |
| Go to Fiji | |
| Visit China and the Great Wall | |
| Things you'll never hear an English Teacher say | |
| I wonder if we are effectively teaching English? | |
| It's ok if we don't make it ALL the way through the textbook. | |
| They only scored %30 on the test, maybe we should stop and review. | |
| WOW, we are so fortunate to have an ALT. | |
| I'm not an expert in English, how you you pronounce this? | |
| Things you'll never hear a Japanese driver say | |
| Let's not back into this space today. | |
| I look left, right, then left again. | |
| It's turning yellow, let's slow down. | |
| I can't park here, it's the middle of the road. | |
| I enjoy paying Shaken. (Yearly inspection around $2,000) | |
| Worst things about learning Japanese | |
| Kanji, only 1,945 characters to learn. Each with 1 or more meanings, and each with 2 or more different readings. | |
| Grammar backwards from English. Where is the bathroom? As for the bathroom, where is it? | |
| Having a different counter for everything. 3 Cars, sandai; 3 people, sannin; 3 plates, sanmai; 3 bottles, sanbon; 3=san | |
| Coolest JET websites (excluding this one...) | |
| http://www.jetanuki.com | |
| http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=midori031 | |
| http://jet-tales.tripod.com/ | |
| http://kevkev.net/japan_index.html | |
| http://www.ne.jp/asahi/fugu/spicygyoza/spicy.html | |
| Really Irritating Things | |
| Worst Language Mistakes | |
| Funniest in-class Engrish | |
| Ryan Sensei, can you pronounce Else correctly, it should be "LLz" | |
| How long are you? (How tall are you) | |
| "You are very right" (from textbook) | |
| Favorite English Words | |
| Bag | |
| Hemoglobin | |
| Excommunicated | |
| Repertoire | |
| Debit | |
| Favorite Japanese Words | |
| Takadanobaba - A station in Tokyo | |
| Nama mugi nama gome nama tamago - a tongue twister | |
| akapajama - red pajamas | |
| Gyuu Nyuu - milk | |
| Buyo - bug | |
| Favorite Japanese Foods | |
| Sushi | |
| Gyoza | |
| Curry Rice | |
| Tempura | |
| Goma Salad Dressing | |
| Current Addictions | |
| CC Lemon | |
| Gyoza | |
| Internet | |
| Current Procrastinated Things | |
| Exercising daily | |
| Eating right | |
| Taking vitamins and such regularly | |
| Studying Japanese consistently | |
| Movies I've Never Managed to Actually See | |
| Scarface series | |
| Streetcar Named Desire | |
| All of the Godfathers | |
| Habits I Wish I Could Break | |
| Capitalizing the First Letter of Each Word | |
| Tapping my fingers on the desk | |
| Overeating | |
| Bouncing my leg (sign of being poor in Japan) | |
| Overspending | |
| Places I've never been, but really should have. | |
| New York | |
| Chicago (stopped there for layover once) | |
| California | |
| Washington D.C. | |
| The Keys | |