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Portia-sensei

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About Me


Get Your Sexy Name

I am...a Cancer, a graduate of Howard University, 5'6" and 100 pounds soaking wet, currently an English teacher in southern Japan, a nerd, an only child and an oldest daughter and a middle child, creative and sensitive (some might call me an artist), pretty laid-back (...most of the time...), compassionate, affectionate, open-minded, modest (can't you tell?), a hopeless romantic, social, into simple pleasures, a lover of warm weather and good company......to be honest I probably don't know all of who I am or will be yet myself. When I find out, I'll let you know.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

God, Dr. King, an American Indian from before the 'new world was discovered', a plantation slave, a little African girl or Indian woman who knows of whole other types of 'female struggles', people who struggled and persevered and succeeded, anyone who could teach me of different ways to view life, anyone who wants to meet me too. Also, this may sound vain (trust me it's not), but I'd like to meet myself...only from a stranger's perspective. I know me (or am getting to know me) from the inside, but I wonder what others think when they meet me.

My Blog

Okay.

I'm not content, but I'm working on it...I don't have peace of mind or spirit, but I'm striving for it...I'm not okay...but I will be.  I have to be.  "Not okay" people don't make it, right?...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:45:00 GMT

crooked cupids

Alright you guys.  I know this is your fault.  Knock it off... Since I announced that I was moving to Japan everyone has been predicting that I was going to come to Japan and fall head ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:54:00 GMT

cribs unplugged

I live in a three bedroom house.  I pay about $180 a month, utilities not included.  Furniture provided.  Sounds like a fairly nice setup.  However, on the way, my supervisor began...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:45:00 GMT

language barrier

Right.  So quick observation...no one has cursed me out for my page being in Japanese.  The first few times I signed on over here it was in English, then suddenly it chan...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:21:00 GMT

japan night life

Hey!!! I`m back and cured from jet lag.  I went out on the town in Tokyo last night and it was a trip!!!!  We went to a place called Akihibara which is literally called electric town, to buy...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:17:00 GMT

arrival

Damn.  Why didn't someone tell me that after I finished preparing to go to Japan, that I would actually have to go to Japan?!  The flight was vicious.  15 hours, plus a 2 hour delay mea...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:40:00 GMT

decisions and deadlines

Been a minute and a lifetime since I've been on this site for more than two seconds at a time... In roughly 48 hours,  I will be setting out for the otherside of the world.  In truth, I am p...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:42:00 GMT

hu alumni

This is been a long time coming (the blog) and even longer in the making (the event) but on May 12, 2007 around 12:00 in the afternoon, I officially became a member of the Howard University Alumni.&nb...
Posted by on Thu, 24 May 2007 02:57:00 GMT

japan bound

You know one of these days I'm going to manage to do this at some time other than in the middle of the night... I've wanted to go to Japan since I was in high school.  I forget all of the signifi...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:17:00 GMT

random relatives

My older brother, Turayl, came to visit me today.  It was cool, but completely unexpected.  I haven't seen him in four years and I hadn't talked to him since Christmas.  So imagine...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:21:00 GMT