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Tokyo Conference
Jun. 8th, 2005 06:46 pmThese last three of days I've been in Tokyo attending the JET recontracting conference. It paralleled the orientation from a little under a year ago, but there were several glaring differences.
1) it was much easier to weed out the crap info from the helpful since I actually know what my job is like now.
2) Every time you spotted a new budding friendship forming, rather than the clunky paper shuffle there was a flash of orange, red, blue green, and all other colors of the rainbow as people whipped out their keitai's like pros.
3) You had an idea of where people were when they told you "I live in X." So you don't delude yourself into thinking you have a new weekend buddy.
Overall it was a great experience. Got a pleasant surprise when Vanessa was there. Hung out with some cool new people that live in the area. Didn't have to worry about catching the last train home and just had fun (hands down the best part. especially since we know the area now as opposed to the last time when we were scared to walk too far from the hotel)
And I learned some new perspectives on things, and also about myself. I am much better than just a year ago, but I find that I still allow myself to make decisions based off of feelings of guilt. It's not a good thing and probably one of the biggest things that holds me back. So gonna have to work on that.
1) it was much easier to weed out the crap info from the helpful since I actually know what my job is like now.
2) Every time you spotted a new budding friendship forming, rather than the clunky paper shuffle there was a flash of orange, red, blue green, and all other colors of the rainbow as people whipped out their keitai's like pros.
3) You had an idea of where people were when they told you "I live in X." So you don't delude yourself into thinking you have a new weekend buddy.
Overall it was a great experience. Got a pleasant surprise when Vanessa was there. Hung out with some cool new people that live in the area. Didn't have to worry about catching the last train home and just had fun (hands down the best part. especially since we know the area now as opposed to the last time when we were scared to walk too far from the hotel)
And I learned some new perspectives on things, and also about myself. I am much better than just a year ago, but I find that I still allow myself to make decisions based off of feelings of guilt. It's not a good thing and probably one of the biggest things that holds me back. So gonna have to work on that.
