Farewell Japan! :-(

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December 20th 2006

Published: December 26th 2006

Farewell to my home for 2006 After completing my early childhood degree in Adelaide, Australia at the end of 2005, I stumbled across an advertisement for kindergarten teachers in Japan...and I thought, why not? I became even more excited when my friend from university, Amy, decided to take the job also. The whole situation sounded too good to be true and had (some of) our friends thinking we w... Read Full Entry

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Marissa Nakos

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Read about my travels around the world. After completing my Early Childhood Education degree in Adelaide, Australia, my love of travelling and setting foot into the unknown took me to Japan. I taught at an English Kindergarten for two amazing years while admiring the glorious Mt Fuji and exploring Japan from Hokkaido to Okinawa and everywhere in between. I was lucky to meet Mario in Japan and now we are engaged and living in Spain. We have no idea what the future holds, but we’re sure it will be adventurous! ... full info

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Eejanaika Eejanaika!

Eejanaika eejanaika - repetative, funny jingle they played in the line up!

Love iPod - Our cute new iPods kept us entertained in the line ups!

The Japanese people thought it was hilarious when Amy kept talking really loudly cause she was listening to her music.

Aoba Symbol Christmas Lights

Hide, Amy and me

Going out for drinks for Matt's birthday

We saw someone famous!

Well he must have been as many Japanese had their phone cameras out, snapping away as he was doing interviews on the street.

Last ice cream sundae at Denny's

Amy driving the kindy bus!

Christmas Concert

All the kindy kids

Not happy Renjyu! Oh but you're still so cute!

My class singing and dancing to LOVE by Hi-5!

My girls all dressed up at the Christmas Concert

Kawaii Little Frogs!

Being silly with Mario's jacket on the bus before going out

Oh Simon, what are you doing haha!

Me and Harumi

The bar guy at Wanted

He did all sorts of tricks, then gave us a bag of bananas and Japanese thongs to take home!!??

Strange growths!

I said smile...

27th December 2006

KTV
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YEAH!
Marissamou it is so great to finally have you home!!! YEAH FOR IT!!! come on say it with my now... its great to be home... YES, YES IT IS!!!!!

26th January 2007

Liz
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More Please
Well just because you are home doesnt mean you can stop now--- We'd love to see pics of what you are up to now- Greg and Liz

28th January 2007

TravelQueen
Marissa Nakos

im just slack
I am working on a blog, but there will be plenty more to come from april onwards, as i will return to Japan for another year!!!

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