Jason Cormier <fjlij@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<BC332023.7E4DC%fjlij@hotmail.com>...
> The fact that he cannot get another teaching job in Japan says a lot.
> 
> (From the usual source of amusement.)
> 
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> Obsession with a former lifestyle
> 
> 
> I spent New Year's Eve in Hawaii, my 11th month back in the United States
> since leaving Japan. I am obsessed with Japanese people, culture and food.
> Maybe it's the Hollywood factor, having been an English teacher in a rural
> community where students accorded me rock-star stature. It was pleasurable
> being Elvis. I have applied for numerous teaching positions back in Japan
> and have come very close as a second seed three or four times, but fate has
> not released me back to Japan yet.
> 
> Many times while living in Japan I could not wait to return to America. Upon
> my return, though, I was stunned to enter into total disarray. Eleven months
> later, I'm still going through reverse culture shock and decompression. The
> things I used to make fun of, such as a uniformed society -- from students
> to travel agents -- bagging my own groceries, hard work etc., somehow became
> what I believed in.
> 
> Respect, honor and integrity -- things I knew little of during my teaching
> tenure -- in fact epitomize Japanese culture. Only now can I appreciate and
> understand them. I must return!
> 
> JAMES ROSEN 
> Kapaa, Hawai 
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He made fun of "bagging his own groceries"???

Lazy shit.