Was your daughter in Japan for the earthquake/tsunami? Must have been scary.
My wife is half-Japanese. She had some family that was affected. Thankfully, they all survived, but it was really bad.
Our younger son was of the conservative/libertarian mindset like his mom and I. Then he went to Berkeley and became a liberal.
When he realized that his Anthropology degree wasn’t worth the paper it’s stamped on, he began to come around again. Still not completely back yet, but he doesn’t like Obama. He agrees with me that Hussein is a fascist dictator. So there is hope.
He’s been out of the house for two years now. We occasionally help him out financially, but we definitely aren’t carrying him.
No, she was preparing to go in about a month. What did happen, though, was that the majority of people that had signed up to teach, decided not to go. The company my daughter works for called her and asked if she was still interested. She said yes, but most said no.
As a result, she is traveling from school to school a lot. The travel time she does is really hard on her. She had wanted to really work on her Japanese and had found a teacher. But, her schedule changes every two weeks so it is very difficult for her to keep up with classes. Also, I had thought that there would be other people, probably around her age, for her to hang out with and go do things together. However, there aren't enough young people, so one person is traveling between schools and they may be the only teacher in that area. Occasionally, when she travels to go sight-seeing or something like that, she will see a Westerner and they always call to one another. One of the favorite topics seems to be the funny signs in "Engrish". The words are english, but, they are put in a fashion that is sometimes very difficult to understand. There seem to be quite a few Aussies over there.