Going to Japan

Cross-posted from my newer tumblr: shirouemiyas

So I’m terrified and don’t really have time to finish processing before I go, but I’m headed to Japan at the end of the month to teach English in a university setting. I’ll be gone for three months until the end of July. I started this process when I was working very unpredictable, irregular hours as a substitute teacher with a real bottom-out of my income working for the school system where I currently work. After I finally got up the nerve to begin the application process after going to Katsucon and talking to Rin at the end of February, I got a job offer from the county where I work now for a full-time position starting March 18 through the end of the school year. I accepted it tentatively, but I was up front with them about having the pending application to go to Japan. They were accepting, especially because they knew I had started this application before they offered me anything. It’s just a matter of the right day now to tell them when I am going to leave my current job. I would like to give myself a day or two before leaving to just not do anything but make sure I am prepared and have what I need and to spend time with my family, so I’ll probably do that.

I think I’ll be leaving on April 29th here and arriving there on the 30th though it’s kind of wild given the date change. I think it’s going to be about 14 hours in the air with a brief stop in Atlanta both ways. I am getting to fly Delta despite the company’s demand that I go through a particular travel agency which is nice because I really wanted to go through Delta before I knew that. I’ve heard good things and the last time I flew to Canada the Delta connection was the nicest for sure.

I keep trying to get a good relationship with tumblr and/or dreamwidth again, but I have been just utterly frazzled for the past month or two.

Tentatively hoping I’m making good strides for the future, but I’m really afraid.

Also I’m so creatively frustrated I might cry.