It`s unbelievable, but here I am writing my second entry of week. Tomorrow, my parents will arrive in Japan from England so I am really looking forward to a week off from GEOS and a break from teaching and the chance to travel around Japan more is making me very excited. However, I wanted to post this entry before I left for the airport because I think it is rather funny.

On Thursday, I received an email from a random person (who I now know is from England and living close to me in Japan) called Stephen in which he wrote the following paragraph of interesting information. It read as follows:

"As it happens I spent 4 hours yesterday looking for the GEOS office or
the Ono Internet Cafe which you mention. The police, the post office
and the DoCoMo stores there were all quite insistent that none such
exists. The GEOS Web site is singularly uninformative in this regard.

Are you and the Gotemba GEOS school real?"

Well, I thought it was funny and I assured him that the Gotenba school is as real as things come. It just goes to show how well-informed certain people are about certain things in this town - what surprised me especially was the fact that the police station didn`t (or should that be couldn`t) use some resource to find out whether we did exist - I mean it could have been an emergency, right? What makes this more unbelievable is the fact that there are so many posters advertising GEOS around the town that they are very hard to miss. I am just having a hard time getting my head around this one - and I am sure Stephen did too! Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

One good thing coming out of all this though is the fact that people are finding my site - I am curious as to how they find it. Stephen is the second anonymous person to have found it - the first was an American girl trying to decide whether or not to come and work for GEOS. Strange - maybe I should get some kind of copyright!

Anyway, I am going to eat lunch now so have a nice day and take care of yourselves.

Sayonara!