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Got an email this morning from one of the outgoing JETs in the area I’m going. Its actually called Akitakata and is a new “city” of about 35,000 that was formed by merging six existing towns (a phenomenon that’s been happening a lot recently in Japan). Its close to where I thought it would be, this map shows the area that the city covers. Hiroshima is a ways off the bottom left edge and Miyoshi is just a little off the top right edge. Still waiting to find out exactly where I’m going in the fairly large area, there are three schools that me and two other candidates are to be placed in once the school board figures out who goes where. Hopefully will know this by the end of next week.
Still need to do a write-up of the trip to Japan with John, Jessica & Ashley that I did over the past week as well as post pictures. Short version is we all had a blast seeing a little bit of Tokyo (mostly Oeno & Akihabara), the beautiful shrines in Nikko, visiting my friend Dawn in her wonderfully quaint Takayama, more shrines in Kyoto and finally the amazing castle in Himeji. I really didn’t want it to end, it was so much fun doing and seeing stuff with the other three…
