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| love the license plate!! |
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| I know it's an abreviatoin..but really? On the back of a SCHOOL BUS?!?! |
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| Title of a chapter in a book! |
Sunday, January 16, 2011
things I find awesome
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
WAHH so busy
So December flew by SOOO fast. Work was extremely slow for the first couple of weeks, but with the onset of holidays its been nuts around the hotel. 3 ski resorts within 15 minutes of town is just asking for trouble during school breaks. Everyone in Petoskey calls the week between Christmas and New Years "Hell week" and ladys and gentlemen....it's very well named. My internet time before today was like an hour or two in the last week one of which I used to post yesterday! So glad New Years is behind me now, it means business is going to slow back down and my days will be way less chaotic. Plus, my time left before I quit has now been cut in half. I'm going down to Florida sometime next week and visiting my grandparents for a few weeks before flying out to Japan. I can't wait. I haven't seen either of them since summer. Though I wont be posting the whole time I'm down there.
Speaking of Japan, when I emailed PKC about not working for them on the 11th of December I got a simple response of: "Thank You." Nothing else. Can you believe it? Nothing about what I needed to do or what was going to happen. I got an email from my "YAY!!" school on the 27th about my COE application. It seems the COE application from PKC out of the Nagoya immigration branch was never cancelled. That is 2 full weeks after I told them I wasn't going to work for them. So my new COE application from the Shiikoku branch couldn't begin processing my COE. Obviously one person can't get two COEs from two difference schools. Now leaving on Feb. 8th might be causing some problems. Since my new COE hasn't even been started (as immigration and PKC have been closed for the holidays)...that is a full month, plus then the time it takes to get it in the mail, and turning my COE into an instructer's visa at the embassy. All of which take time I am running out of!!! AHHH!
I did let "YAY" school know I want to visit Taiwan. So if I do run out of time I can have my COE mailed to a friends house in Japan I am already planning on visiting before going to the Yuki Matsuri up in Sapporo on the 12th and 13th. If I have to do that I'll fly right out of Sapporo to Taipei, visit my 2 Taiwanese friends that have been wanting me to visit while my Visa processes, and then fly back into Tokyo in time to catch my already booked flight to Tokushima to start work. Hopefully everything works out. *fingers crossed everybody!*
Speaking of Japan, when I emailed PKC about not working for them on the 11th of December I got a simple response of: "Thank You." Nothing else. Can you believe it? Nothing about what I needed to do or what was going to happen. I got an email from my "YAY!!" school on the 27th about my COE application. It seems the COE application from PKC out of the Nagoya immigration branch was never cancelled. That is 2 full weeks after I told them I wasn't going to work for them. So my new COE application from the Shiikoku branch couldn't begin processing my COE. Obviously one person can't get two COEs from two difference schools. Now leaving on Feb. 8th might be causing some problems. Since my new COE hasn't even been started (as immigration and PKC have been closed for the holidays)...that is a full month, plus then the time it takes to get it in the mail, and turning my COE into an instructer's visa at the embassy. All of which take time I am running out of!!! AHHH!
I did let "YAY" school know I want to visit Taiwan. So if I do run out of time I can have my COE mailed to a friends house in Japan I am already planning on visiting before going to the Yuki Matsuri up in Sapporo on the 12th and 13th. If I have to do that I'll fly right out of Sapporo to Taipei, visit my 2 Taiwanese friends that have been wanting me to visit while my Visa processes, and then fly back into Tokyo in time to catch my already booked flight to Tokushima to start work. Hopefully everything works out. *fingers crossed everybody!*
Monday, January 3, 2011
New Years
Wow New Years was fun. My Mom and Dad drove up to Petoskey to spend it with my sis, brother-in-law and I. I was supposed to work the morning shift and get out at 5pm in time for them to either not have arrived yet..or not been in town long. Well that didn't work out so well. On top of this week being "Hell Week" (more on that later) Monday my boss caught the night desk clerk red handed drinking at work. Now we suspected it for months but could never prove it, and she was still mostly performing her job correctly. And not only was she drinking at work...she had come to work trashed...and my boss saw that she had made a copy of the master key to his house and was drinking HIS alcohol! MASSIVE no no. So he fired her on the spot. Made that week extra hectic.
As his sons were in town he wanted to have dinner with them outside of the house. He asked if I could work night shift...I being the extrememly nice person who usually bends over backwards to help people said yes. Thankfully they knew I had plans and didn't stay out really late. They got back at 10:30 and let me go. I changed and made it to the casino club my family and friends had gathered at and stayed out partying till 4am. I had to get gas on the way home...I was stunned to realize it was nearly 50 degrees outside. I mean this is MICHIGAN...in JANUARY!!!
I slept till early afternoon and then went to my sister's house where everyone had spent the night. They were all up and drinking by then...my mom has a fantastic picture of them earlier in the morning of everyone passed out on the couch. Litterally everyone....like 12 people I think. It was an extremely amusing picture. If I can get ahold of it I might post it~!
As his sons were in town he wanted to have dinner with them outside of the house. He asked if I could work night shift...I being the extrememly nice person who usually bends over backwards to help people said yes. Thankfully they knew I had plans and didn't stay out really late. They got back at 10:30 and let me go. I changed and made it to the casino club my family and friends had gathered at and stayed out partying till 4am. I had to get gas on the way home...I was stunned to realize it was nearly 50 degrees outside. I mean this is MICHIGAN...in JANUARY!!!
I slept till early afternoon and then went to my sister's house where everyone had spent the night. They were all up and drinking by then...my mom has a fantastic picture of them earlier in the morning of everyone passed out on the couch. Litterally everyone....like 12 people I think. It was an extremely amusing picture. If I can get ahold of it I might post it~!
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