The Love Poems of Lord Byron: A Romantic's Passion By George Gordon Byron, David Stanford Burr
Not really reading The love poems of Byron just thinking about Byron and romanticism.
Have to write a paper in the next week on Romanticism. I've spent the semester sitting in a room learning nothing about Romanticism, and now I get the pleasure of writing 15 pages on it. Great.
The Woman With the Flying Head and Other Stories (Japanese Women Writing) By Yumiko Kurahashi, Kurahashi Yumiko, Atsuko Sakaki
The Kurahashi book above is somehow disturbing. I'm reading through it because I thought it might be a good way to end my Dark Romantic Japanese literature studies this semester.
Continuing from last time...
Just found out I'm an alternate for JET today. JET= a government sponsored program to bring English speakers from all over the world to Japan to work in elementary, junior, and high schools as English language teachers. Alternate = as of now, I won't go, but if someone that was chosen decides not to go, I may be chosen (there is a waiting list). Not particularly inspiring. On the one hand, I'm not good enough for the "regular" program. On the other, I'm not outright rejected, so I can't just forget about it. I may have to wait until as late as August. And that sucks. But it has made me think. Do I really want to teach English in Japan? I want to teach, yes, I want to be in Japan, but honestly I wonder if I want to be in the middle of nowhere, teaching a subject 95% of Japanese students could care less about and that, honestly, I'm not sure I would want to learn about. I'm not saying I don't - it could be good experience, and if I were in a good situation, it could be fantastic. But for 3 years, really, I have been looking to JET as a way to get to Japan, but when it really comes down to it, I'm not COMPLETELY certain it is what I want to do. More later...
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