Summer!

I've been pigging out lately. It's super hot lately. I can see eat watermelons and mangoes lately.

That only means one thing.... IT'S SUMMER!

Haha I guess I just really wanted to post this picture. Because I think this is the most fashionable thing I can post about myself. and I dunno if I've even made an appreciation post about my hair. I kinda like it better now even if the color faded a bit. My hair kinda looks like the sunset a bit. I just wanted to share that I love sunsets. Anyways. I better go. See you guys in class next week :)

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水原希子 ♡

I rarely post about fashion because I'm not really very interested and I'm not really very good at it. But today I watched Asia's Next Top Model. I really like Asia version the most because I think they're all so relateable and sooo beautiful. Anyways Last year, I really love watching it especially since it was Georgina Wilson. I mean I really love her (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑ anyways. I'm posting about this because if they're changing hosts every year, I wish there would be a year where Mizuhara Kiko would be a host ٩(⸝⸝⸝◕ั ௰ ◕ั⸝⸝⸝ )و I mean I REAAAAALLLLLLY want her. I'd really watch it every week. ♡

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Credit to owner of the picture.

Holiday!

Hi. I'm at work today. I'll be off tomorrow again. Anyways I went to Mendez last Wednesday and supposed to be I'll be off until Monday but I decided to go to work today. Anyways. I'm not sure if all of you know but it's holy week. Well since most Filipinos are Catholics. Everyone is expected to respect the Lenten season. So anyways. Every year. I join religions processions on Wednesdays only. But this year I decided to complete both Wednesday and Friday processions. Well I just learned that on the Friday procession, there is an event where people are allowed to kiss the image of Jesus after the procession. And I also learned that there is also a Silent Procession when Jesus is buried well kind of. He's hidden inside the church. Anyways. I'll go back to work for now. I hope you guys aren't mad I didn't have open classes this week. This only happens once a year and it so happens special relatives are home this year. So see you guys next week :) <3

(I'll post my own pictures after going back from my hometown. for now this is a picture of a procession from google.)

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The road I pass through daily.

Sometimes I feel like people from Parañaque have some kind of grudge against people from Cavite. You see if you live in Cavite, the only way you can get to Manila is if you pass through Parañaque. But you see, drivers from Parañaque aren't really generous when it comes to sharing their roads. I'll give an example. There are 5 lanes in Baclaran (a part of Parañaque). There is a T intersection in Baclaran that lots of drivers from Cavite avoid because drivers from Parañaque take up 4 lanes. Like where is the justice in that? And another example is the officials. I mean traffic enforcers stop cars that are coming from Cavite despite the stoplight having another 17 seconds of green light. Where is the justice in that?!

OK so this is also one of the reasons why I don't want to drive despite knowing how. I suffer from rode rage my dears.

(The picture isn't mine. Maybe someday I'd take a picture of Baclaran if I have time)

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An Agoraphobic's guide to riding trains.

Definition of Terms
Agoraphobic - Fear of Crowds
Claustrophobic - Fear of Closed spaces
Manifestation - an event that clearly shows or embodies something

You see. When I was in high school I've identified myself as both an Agoraphobic and Claustrophobic person. And riding trains is like the manifestation of all my fears. And because of work I have to face my fears everyday hopefully without having to vomit I'm gonna share my tips to fellow Agoraphobic and Claustrophobic people

• Have a friend
  
• Out of all the advice I can give this might be the most complicated. I mean it's not everyday that we have someone we can tag along with when we ride the train. I put this first because if you have a panic attack, there is at least one person who understands what is happening and he/she might assist you ASAP. And the person you are with can be a source of strength because we both know how scary it is to ride a train.
• Stand next to the door
  
• One thing I realized helps me feel better is if I'm standing next to the door. Even if there are seats available, I don't bother taking a seat because I feel safer next to the door. For Claustrophobics I know it is scary looking at automatic doors closing on your face. But it's even scarier if you're far away from the door. You don't have a place to run to if you feel trapped. So I really recommend that you stand next to the door.
• Always look outside or up

• My legs always feel weak even if I just feel like I'm in a crowd. aia I feel like crying thinking about this. Don't look at the crowd and try to forget about it. Look outside or look up. Don't you dare think about the crowd! Just think of your happy place ok? sorry I really feel weak right now even thinking about this. TwwT
• Listen to Music
  
• The most effective distraction for me, from the crowd, other than looking outside is when I listen to music. For me this is my happy place. So I recommend that you try this. This really makes me feel relaxed and forget a bit that this is the most scary place for me. So try this ok? :)

Oh credits to all the owners of the pictures. They aren't mine. I just got them from google. I don't think I've watched any of these anime tho so sorry if you ask me about it and I don't know. I just really needed pictures for presentation. 

btw share. I kinda look like the girl from the third picture every morning, except I have headphones like on the fourth. I kinda feel like the pictures are redundant but these are the perfect representations. So sorry if you didn't like it. Anyways. I have something I wanna share. I define "bravery" as this

Brave people aren't the ones who don't have any fears,

brave people face their fears everyday.

Don't be ashamed my dear and we shall both face our fears. It will take a lot from us to do these but it is for our benefit as well right? So be brave and I'll hold your hand :)

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韓国の食べ物は初めて食べた。

I think the title says it all. haha. I had a dinner date with Natsuki, Jazzelle (a friend of ours at work), Jazzelle's boyfriend and friend. Well for me it was my first time and It was very weird for me. I wanted to share the pictures with you all because you know I love you :)

It's really my first time to eat on a Korean restaurant and most probably I talked with you about it if you had a class with me this weekend. :) I wish had the other pictures but I dunno if Jazzelle's friend would agree to have their pictures posted here owo anyways good night my dear students :)

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ダメ El Capitan

OK I think I want my Mavericks back :( El Capitan removed the dashboard! I need my dashboard :( I mean it's easier to navigate the calculator, notes calendar and the watches I have :( (I have more than one watch because lots of my relatives live abroad and I have to figure out what time is it on their side of the world)

I also hate the icons :( I hate the glassy theme. I want the 3D type again. Why did they have to change it to this paper/glass looking theme? I want my old theme back :( Maybe I really shouldn't have upgraded :( I mean I don't think it's worth it to upgrade my applications if I wouldn't like the interface like this :( But I can't do anything about it anymore now that it's upgraded. Well. I'm really tired now. Let's go to sleep. Good night dearies. See you in class :)

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Test Call

Just sharing a picture of the 3 of us doing a test call. It was actually Natsuki who print screened this so share the love _へ__(‾◡◝ )> The first picture was from yesterday.

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OSX

Don't you just love it when it's upgrading time? Last look on my Mavericks OSX.

I'll be upgrading to OSX El Capitan now!


Ok so I officially upgraded and I kind of don't like the way some icons look :( I'm gonna go and play with my icons later.

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暗殺教室

Sorry I can't help it. The manga officially ended TwT I really like this manga. I just feel like I want more! I wish there would be a manga about the student's future or just omakes. I dunno I'd be really happy. I also wish there would be an alternate reality or something. ugh. Just wanted to let everyone know that I love this manga.

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Jeepneys ｢(ﾟﾍﾟ)

I've been wondering. Do any of you know what a jeepney is? I mean I ride it from time to time and it's really common here in the Philippines but I've been wondering if any of my students know what a jeepney is? I mean this post will be about jeepney anyways If you don't know I've searched the internet and will post a picture of it here :))

Anyways. I wanted to share something I saw earlier that wasn't very common to jeepneys. You see normally, the seats are made of foam. But I rode a jeepney earlier that didn't have foam as the chair. I'll post a picture of it here.

You see the chair was made out of bamboo. I mean bamboo chairs are really normal on the Philippines but on jeepneys? (」゜ロ゜)」 not too much. I just posted this to share my confusingly weird experience. hehehe. ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌ じゃね

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Late post from last thursday :)

Ok I haven't posted in a while because I didn't have internet connection at home since last weekend. Well here are the photos I wanted to share from last Thursday :) I'll probably post another set since today we had a seminar and everyone was feeling very vain today and wanted to take pictures. But this post is about last thursday so here they are :)

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Note to self.

Dear self.

This is to remind you that you shouldn't try to work earlier than 9 TwT </3 I'm sorry student :(

This is to remind you that you can't run from Paseo de Roxas to the office because of your short legs TwT


I'm really sorry Admin. I'm really sorry TL. I'm really sorry Yuta -_-

超恥ずかしい日

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Craving for matcha

TwT lately. I've been super busy that I haven't realized how tired I am. hahaha. I've been trying to study new things like kanji but I've been soo tired from work that I end up craving stress food. Right now I'm craving matcha. I'm eating matcha flavored pocky. I guess Kitkat is a bit too expensive for me right now and I can't share with my fellow teachers the matcha love because it's soo few TwwT I do want to share but I'm really craving for matcha and I feel kinda selfish. hehe anyways. I'll try to send my schedule for the next 2 weeks later ok? I'll keep you guys posted :)

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デート

My dear students,

Please don't get mad but I was in a date today. With ナツキさん。Haha. I wanna post the pictures now but she has the pictures! uwaaaa! I really had fun today. We both coloured our hair! :D We also had an unexpected trip to my hometown. She met my dear cousins today! I was really happy that she met my family today :D I want to say right now that I really had fun today and I kinda wish I can share more with you guys. I will maybe tomorrow or on the weekend! I'll share the pictures and videos by then. For now, I'll say good night :) おやすみなさいみんな。

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Free Ride!

Uwaaaaa! The strangest thing happened today! I was sleepily walking to the train today. And inside the station, I was hearing a megaphone being replayed by a guard. I was weirded out because that's very unusual and when I was about to tap my card to enter the platform a guard stopped me and told me: "All women have free rides today. Please proceed this way." I was really shocked because I didn't expect anything like that to happen today. But when I got to the office and opened my browser. It seems it's International Women's Day

Happy Women's Day! :D

I don't normally post pictures but here's a picture of the ticket they gave me!

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Shameless Plug

Good morning :) hmmm. I don't have much to say today. hmmm. I wanna say please support all of us new teachers! :D ♥

• JARVIS
• KINNO
• GEO
• CHOI

(I'll try and post the others later) uwaaa! I need to go back to work! See you later!

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Cold sleepy morning.

Good afternoon! 超寒い！It seems I don't have much classes today. But then I asked around it seems it's exam period in Japan now. uwaaaa! がんばって皆さん！

But for Teacher Meiko it's a bit of a cold sleepy morning for me. But don't worry I've been studying too. So I'll still be here when you get back ok?

みんな今日は寒いだから気をつけて。

I should've named this blog as TeacherBrokenJapanese. But it'll look like I'm teaching Japanese rather than English :)) Anyways. See you!

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新しいブログ！

Hi! I just realized that tomorrow It'll mark the 3rd week of me being a teacher!

So anyways I wanted to say that this past 2 weeks have been the most interesting week I have in my entire life. It was very nice meeting all of you and I wish I can see all of you again :D I just wanted to say that as much as I love teaching all of you, I also love learning from all of you. I was really happy that I was able to share a lot of ideas with all of you! Right now all of my feelings are of greatfulness Anyways. I wanted to show all of you a list of all the things I am about to research about or read about because there are some of you who made me curious about it :)

• Umeboshi
• Sukiyaki song
• Nanbantei
• Ippudo
• Man With The Mission
• Train system in Japan
• Assembler
• Something classified ;)

Anyways. I really want to talk to all of you again. まったね :D

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