ah, it feels good to be going back to work. i was worried there for a while. see, the city i worked in, my company lost the contract for it, which put roughly 12 ALT's (assistant language teacher) out of a job. now of that 12, i knew of 3 or 4 going home, while the others were left to kinda fend for themselves. at the eleventh hour, the company came in and offered us jobs in other cities. it'll be interesting working on a new place, but at least i'm working, and still in japan. now we'll see how...