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[enby--emrys]

Zitiron- a creature with the bottom half of a fish and the top half of a knight.

The zitiron only shows up in three sources that I can find- the Ortus Sanitatis (published in Germany 1491, author unknown), Van der Naturen Bloeme (early 14th c) by Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant, and De natura rerum (1244 CE) by Flemish writer Thomas of Cantimpré. Van der Naturen Bloeme is actually just a Dutch translation of the Latin De natura rerum, so technically there's only two original sources. The only reason I mention both is that the original De natura rerum- which is sourced from a large number of works by philosophers and writers such as Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, St. Ambrose, Jacques de Vitry, and too many others to explore them all as original sources- doesn't have any illustrations and is in Latin, which I can't read, making it a personally useless source. But Van der Naturen Bloeme does have illustrations- the third image in this post is Jacob van Maerlant's interpretation of the zitiron I assume to be outlined in De natura rerum.

The only other original place that a zitiron can be found, according to the internet, is in the Ortus Sanitatis, a Latin natural history encyclopedia with no known author published in 1491 in Mainz, Germany. It has illustrations, the second image in this post is the author's interpretation. But again, I can't read Latin and it's hard to read the stylized text to put into google translate.

There is almost no information about the zitiron online, which is a shame because it's a really interesting figure. If you can read Latin or medieval Dutch I would LOVE to work together to place the origin of this mythological creature and learn more about it!

For the drawing, I wanted to honor Jacob van Maerlant and Thomas of Cantimpré's Flemish heritage. The helmet, chainmail, shield, and goedendag on the zitiron are representative of what the Flemish forces wore and used at the Battle of the Golden Spurs, a 1302 victory of the French that is a source of pride and celebrated every July 11th by the Flemish today.

TLDR: The zitiron is a little known creature from the Middle Ages or perhaps antiquity, with the bottom half of a fish and the top half of a knight. My drawing is inspired by the Flemish culture of two of the only writers to leave any information about the zitiron.

If you've got the time and can read Latin, could you take a look at the two Latin texts I mentioned? For the Ortus Sanitatis, I was able to flip through the whole thing and find the page that has the info on zitirons. It's on page 730 here- (x). But for De natura rerum, which you can access here (x), I have no idea where it could be. There's a translation project for it ongoing through Kalamazoo College, but I don't see anything relating to zitirons or relevant mythology on their page so far. And if you can miraculously read medieval Dutch, here's the link to the page on zitirons in Van der Naturen Bloeme (x).

[garadinervi]

Linda Powell, Artists and Teachers Together, (announcement), Michigan Inter-Arts Conference, Western Michigan University College of Fine Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, 1974 [West Michigan Graphic Design Archives, Zhang Legacy Collections Center at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI]

[scifikimmi]

There's a light on in the bathroom - a poem for my roommate

There is a light on in the bathroom

and I’m sitting on the floor

of the hallway

and you’re just inside the door.

We are talking about nothing

because you’re drunk on

beer and cheap wine.

and I’m holding your phone.

You were crying when I found you

because when you drink you

get too emotional

and I know you had a few. 

We talk about the candle scents we like,

picking at the places where the carpet

is coming up

and it's been hours since the sun set.

You say you miss your brother

he’s an hour away in Kalamazoo

still in college.

and you don’t talk as often as you used to.

The rain starts to pick up outside

we can hear it patter on the rooftop

muted inside

and I’m talking about my coffee shop. 

You say I need a new job

but your job sounds too hard

I say I know – I do

and link you to a meme on discord. 

Our cats are crying at the door

sure the rain will spell our doom

or maybe they just

want to be let into the bathroom.

You say you’re glad that we are friends

and that I know you like I do.

its 3 am on Friday,

and I’m glad I know you too.

---

this is dedicated to @mandamae4 my dear friend and apartment mate. I know u have better taste in alcohol than beer and cheep wine but it sounded better in the poem.

and also thanks to tumblr user: @kidsomeday for the original prompt "There is a light on in the bathroom".

[lboogie1906]

Terrence Alan Crews (July 30, 1968) is an actor, television host, and former football player. He played Julius Rock on Everybody Hates Chris. He hosted the US version of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and starred in The Family Crews. He appeared in films such as Friday After Next, White Chicks, Idiocracy, Blended, and The Expendables series. He has played NYPD Lieutenant Terry Jeffords in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He began hosting America’s Got Talent following his involvement in the same role for the program’s spin-off series America’s Got Talent: The Champions.

He played as a defensive end and linebacker in the NFL for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers, and Washington Redskins, as well as in the WLAF for the Rhein Fire and college football at Western Michigan University.

A public advocate for women’s rights and activist against sexism has shared stories of the abuse his family endured at the hands of his violent father. He was included among the group of people named Time Person of the Year for going public with stories of sexual assault during the Me Too movement.

He received a Chrysler-sponsored art scholarship at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, which was followed by an Art Excellence scholarship and a full athletic scholarship for football at WMU. He earned All-Conference honors and won the 1988 MAC Championship.

He was born in Flint, the son of Patricia Ann and Terry Crews. The middle child of three, he grew up in a strict Christian household in Flint. He spent a summer at Interlochen Arts Academy and entered Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo on an art scholarship. He tried out for the football team and earned a full athletic scholarship.

He met Rebecca King when he was a college sophomore; she was the music minister at a local church. They married (1989). They have four daughters and a son, Isaiah Crews, also an actor, and one grandchild. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Megumi Field (Cerritos, California)

Anita Alvarez (Buffalo, New York)

Simone Manuel (Sugar Land, Texas)

Gretchen Walsh (Nashville, Tennessee)

Alexandra Walsh (Greenwich, Connecticut)

Kate Douglass (Pelham, New York)

Torri Huske (Arlington County, Virginia)

Erin Gemmell (Montgomery County, Maryland)

Claire Weinstein (White Plains, New York)

Katie Ledecky (Montgomery County, Maryland)

Paige Madden (Mobile, Alabama)

Katie Grimes (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Katherine Berkoff (Missoula, Montana)

Regan Smith (Lakeville, Minnesota)

Phoebe Bacon (Chevy Chase, Maryland)

Lilly King (Evansville, Indiana)

Emma Weber (Denver, Colorado)

Alexandra Shackell (Carmel, Indiana)

Emma Weyant (Sarasota, Florida)

Erika Connolly (Cornelius, North Carolina)

Abbey Weitzeil (Santa Clarita, California)

Anna Peplowski (Metamora Township, Illinois)

Mariah Denigan (Fairfield, Ohio)

Rock climbing

Zach Hammer (Salt Lake City, Utah)

Colin Duffy (Broomfield, Colorado)

Jesse Grupper (New York, New York)

Sam Watson (Southlake, Texas)

Natalia Grossman (Boulder, Colorado)

Brooke Raboutou (Boulder, Colorado)

Emma Hunt (Woodstock, Georgia)

Piper Kelly (Indianapolis, Indiana)

Surfing

Griffin Colapinto (San Clemente, California)

John Florence (Honolulu County, Hawaii)

Caroline Marks (Melbourne Beach, Florida)

Carissa Moore (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Caitlin Simmers (Oceanside, California)

Table tennis

Kanak Jha (Milpitas, California)

Rachel Sung (San José, California)

Amy Wang (Mantua Township, New Jersey)

Lily Zhang (Redwood City, California)

Taekwondo

Carl Nickolas; Jr. (Brentwood, California)

Jonathan Healy (Houston, Texas)

Faith Dillon (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Kristina Teachout (Palm Bay, Florida)

Tennis

Christopher Eubanks (Atlanta, Georgia)

Taylor Fritz (Rancho Palos Verdes, California)

Marcos Girón (Thousand Oaks, California)

Tommy Paul (Boca Raton, Florida)

Austin Krajicek (Plano, Texas)

Rajeev Ram (Carmel, Indiana)

Danielle Collins (St. Petersburg, Florida)

Cori Gauff (Delray Beach, Florida)

Emma Navarro (Charleston, South Carolina)

Jessica Pegula (Boca Raton, Florida)

Desirae Krawczyk (Palm Desert, California)

Trialthlon

Morgan Pearson (Boulder, Colorado)

Seth Rider (Germantown, Tennessee)

Kirsten Kasper (Boulder, Colorado)

Taylor Knibb (Boulder, Colorado)

Taylor Spivey (Redondo Beach, California)

Volleyball

Andy Benesh (Rancho Palos Verdes, California)

Miles Partain (Los Angeles, California)

Miles Evans (Santa Barbara, California)

Chase Budinger (Carlsbad, California)

Matt Anderson (West Seneca, New York)

Aaron Russell (Howard County, Maryland)

Jeff Jendryk II (Evanston, Illinois)

T.J. DeFalco (Huntington Beach, California)

Micah Christenson (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Maxwell Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio)

Micah Ma'a (Honolulu County, Hawaii)

Thomas Jaeschke (Wheaton, Illinois)

Garrett Muagututia (Oceanside, California)

Taylor Averill (Portland, Oregon)

David Smith (Santa Clarita, California)

Erik Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Taryn Kloth (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)

Kelly Cheng (Fullerton, California)

Sarah Hughes (Costa Mesa, California)

Jordyn Poulter (Aurora, Colorado)

Avery Skinner (Katy, Texas)

Justine Wong-Orantes (Cypress, California)

Lauren Carlini (Aurora, Illinois)

Jordan Larson (Hooper, Nebraska)

Annie Drews (Elkhart, Indiana)

Jordan Thompson (Edina, Minnesota)

Haleigh Washington (Clear Creek County, Colorado)

Dana Rettke (Riverside Township, Illinois)

Kathryn Plummer (Aliso Viejo, California)

Kelsey Cook (Hanover Township, Illinois)

Chiaka Ogbogu (Coppell, Texas)

Water polo

Adrian Weinberg (Los Angeles, California)

Chase Dodd (Huntington Beach, California)

Ryder Dodd (Huntington Beach, California)

Johnny Hooper (Los Angeles, California)

Marko Vavic (Rancho Palos Verdes, California)

Alex Obert (Loomis, California)

Hannes Daube (Long Beach, California)

Luca Cupido (Newport Beach, California)

Ben Hallock (Los Angeles, California)

Dylan Woodhead (San Anselmo, California)

Alex Bowen (San Diego, California)

Max Irving (Long Beach, California)

Drew Holland (Orinda, California)

Tara Prentice (Murrieta, California)

Jenna Flynn (San José, California)

Jewel Roemer (Lafayette, California)

Emily Ausmus (Riverside, California)

Jovana Sekulic (Newtown Township, Pennsylvania)

Ashleigh Johnson (Miami, Florida)

Maddie Musselman (Newport Beach, California)

Rachel Fattal (Los Alamitos, California)

Maggie Steffens (Danville, California)

Jordan Raney (Santa Monica, California)

Ryann Neushul (Santa Barbara County, California)

Kaleigh Gilchrist (Newport Beach, California)

Amanda Longan (Moorpark, California)

Weightlifting

Hampton Morris (Marrieta, Georgia)

Wes Kitts (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Jourdan Delacruz (Wylie, Texas)

Olivia Reeves (Chattanooga, Tennessee)

Mary Theisen-Lappen (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)

Wrestling

Payton Jacobson (Elkhorn, Wisconsin)

Spencer Lee (Murrysville, Pennsylvania)

Zain Retherford (Benton, Pennsylvania)

Kyle Dake (Lansing, New York)

Aaron Brooks (Hagerstown, Maryland)

Kyle Snyder (Montgomery County, Maryland)

Mason Parris (Lawrenceburg, Indiana)

Kamal Bey (Oak Park Township, Illinois)

Joe Rau (Chicago, Illinois)

Adam Coon (Handy Township, Michigan)

Sarah Hildebrandt (Clay Township, Indiana)

Dominique Parrish (Scotts Valley, California)

Helen Maroulis (Marquette, Michigan)

Kayla Miracle (Iowa City, Iowa)

Amit Elor (Walnut Creek, California)

Kennedy Blades (Chicago, Illinois)

[railwayhistorical]

Westbound Wolverine

Once again I was able to shoot two trains rolling by within minutes from other—the first being late. Here we see number 351, a westbound Amtrak Wolverine. We’re on the west side of Kalamazoo near the campuses of Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University. The line here is former Michigan Central.

It’s interesting to note that this train is completely made up of Amfleet cars, which I can’t remember seeing in the last several decades. See the next post for the following train.

Four images by Richard Koenig; taken October 28th 2022.

[worker-and-soldier]

"Kerensky: Past Defeat And Future Hope"

(Newspaper article by Dave Harrison - Oct. 20, 1967 | Kalamazoo College Index)

"Alexander Kerensky at 86 displays a clearness of mind and an optimism towards life that is surprising. He came to Kalamazoo College Thursday as a living monument of the past but left as a foreteller of the future - "there will never be a third world war" - and a keen dissector of both the world he once knew and the world today. Above all, Alexander Kerensky is a man who has made history and has been forced by circumstances to defend his actions of 50 years previous. And he performed that task quite forcefully and effectively Thursday night.

Kerensky masked none of his bitterness against the Leninist regime that unquestionably altered his life and the lives of the people of the country he loves so dearly. He called the movement that put his government into power and overthrew the czar in February of 1917 a "revolution" because it was a "spontaneous movement of free people," but classified the Bolshevik takeover in October of that same year as a "conspiracy, a coup d'etat," but definitely not a "revolution."

Obviously feeling that Nikolai Lenin misled the Russian people, Kerensky stated that Lenin's dictatorship of the proletariat was not "free" and was never intended to be; that if Lenin had told the Russian people what he really believed (that he hated the idea of Russian democracy, according to Kerensky), then Lenin's movement would never have succeeded because the Russian people are such great lovers of freedom.

Kerensky marked the beginning of the Russian democratic movement, under the control of the intelligensia, as 1902, although he said that the question of large and profound social reforms had been an issue in Russian history since the 18th century. To Kerensky, a lawyer, a new democratic Russia was very important. He visited many Russian towns, defending the politically persecuted and organizing consultations with people of different classes and parties. He said, "I knew Russia better than the people who stayed in town and read books," an obvious thrust at the Marxist elements.

To the former Russian premier, World War 1 was a confrontation of two irreconcilible positions. It was fought for permanent peace and democracy, but in the end it accomplished the formation of totalitarian dictatorship. Kerensky criticized the Treaty of Versailles as the factor which kept World War 1 from being the war to end all wars, labeling it as even more merciless than the Russo-Germany peace of Brest-Litosvk.

Kerensky entertains no notions that any revolutionary movement will overthrow the present Communist regime but said only that the Russian people "will not forever be enslaved by Communism." There is ideological change in the U.S.S.R. today; the people are more audacious, and they are beginning to understand the doctrines connected with the teachings of Marxism. He believes that when the system of teaching the doctrines is broken, the system of government will be broken also. "The Communist government will not be changed by fights in the streets but by changing relations between men in power and men out of power."

No comparative analysis was made by Kerensky between the effectiveness of his government and that which has developed in Russia since 1917 except in his statement that Lenin was a "destructor" and not a "constructor" of governments. He finds reason for the continued existence of the totalitarian regime in Russia in the fact that the western armies during World War II defeated other totalitarian regimes (Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy) but acted as Russia's ally.

Alexander Kerensky at 86 stood up well under the ordeal Kalamazoo College put him through. We were indeed, as Dr. Moritz put it, "happy to be this close to one of the great figures in history." One must marvel at the dynamic, political capable personality he must have been in his own time.

Dramatic to the end, and quite taken by the reception given him by Stetson Chapel full of enthusiastic students, Kerensky ended his speech with a plea which has been the credo which he has set before the world all of his life: "Go forth and be defenders of freedom, social justice, and peace.""

[stubobnumbers]

College Football By State - Michigan.

FBS: Central Michigan Chippewas - Mount Pleasant, Michigan - They first played in 1896. They are in the Mid-American Conference (MAC).

Eastern Michigan Eagles - YpSilanti, Michigan - They first played in 1891. They are in the MAC.

Michigan Wolverines - Ann Arbor, Michigan - They first played in 1879. They are in the Big Ten.

Michigan State Spartans - East Lansing, Michigan - They first played in 1885. They are in the Big Ten.

Western Michigan Broncos - Kalamazoo, Michigan - They first played in 1905. They are n the MAC.

D2: Davenport University Panthers - Grand Rapids, Michigan - They are in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC).

Ferris State University Bulldogs - Big Rapids, Michigan - They are in the GLIAC.

Grand Valley State University Lakers - Allendale, Michigan - They are in the GLIAC.

Hillsdale College Chargers - Hillsdale, Michigan - They are in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC).

Michigan Tech Huskies - Houghton, Michigan - They are in the GLIAC.

Northern Michigan University Wildcats - Marquette, Michigan - They are in the GLIAC.

Northwood University Timberwolves - Midland, Michigan - They are in the G-MAC.

Saginaw Valley State University Cardinals - University Center, Michigan - They are in the GLIAC.

Wayne State University Warriors - Detroit, Michigan - They are in the GLIAC.

D3: Adrian Bulldogs - Adrian, Michigan - They first played in 1892. They are in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).

Albion Britons - Albion, Michigan - They first played in 1984. They are in the MIAA.

Alma Scots - Alma, Michigan - They first played in 1894. They are in the MIAA.

Hope Flying Dutchmen - Holland, Michigan - They first played in 1902. They are in the MIAA.

Kalamazoo Hornets - Kalamazoo, Michigan - They first played in 1892. They are in the MIAA.

Olivet Comets - Olivet, Michigan - They first played in 1884. They are in the MIAA.

And for the first time in the series, NAIA: Concordia University (MI.) Cardinals - Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lawrence Technological University Blue Devils - Southfield, Michigan.

Madonna University Crusaders - Livonia, Michigan.

Siena Heights University Saints - Adrian, Michigan.

All four of them are in the Mid-States Football Association (MSFA).

Awards: Favorite Mascot - The Flying Dutchmen of Hope University. The Olivet Comets get an honorale mention. (I'm not picking Comets as my favorite mascot in back to back states.) The "Pack Hunters" Award - The Timberwolves of Northwood University. "King Of The Who?" Award - The Albion Britons. "Get Into The Groove" Award - The Madonna University Crusaders. The "Mustelids Are Assholes, But Cool" Award - The Michigan Wolverines.

[kp777]

By David Brooks, Opinion Columnist

The New York Times

Sept.

If you’ve been paying attention to the social trends, you probably have some inkling that boys and men are struggling, in the U.S. and across the globe.

They are struggling in the classroom. American girls are 14 percentage points more likely to be “school ready” than boys at age 5, controlling for parental characteristics. By high school, two-thirds of the students in the top 10 percent of the class, ranked by G.P.A., are girls, while roughly two-thirds of the students at the lowest decile are boys. In 2020, at the 16 top American law schools, not a single one of the flagship law reviews had a man as editor in chief.

Men are struggling in the workplace. One in three American men with only a high school diploma — 10 million men — is now out of the labor force. The biggest drop in employment is among young men aged 25 to 34. Men who entered the work force in 1983 will earn about 10 percent less in real terms in their lifetimes than those who started a generation earlier. Over the same period, women’s lifetime earnings have increased 33 percent. Pretty much all of the income gains that middle-class American families have enjoyed since 1970 are because of increases in women’s earnings.

Men are also struggling physically. Men account for close to three out of every four “deaths of despair” — suicide and drug overdoses. For every 100 middle-aged women who died of Covid up to mid-September 2021, there were 184 middle-aged men who died.

Richard V. Reeves’s new book, “Of Boys and Men,” is a landmark, one of the most important books of the year, not only because it is a comprehensive look at the male crisis, but also because it searches for the roots of that crisis and offers solutions.

I learned a lot I didn’t know. First, boys are much more hindered by challenging environments than girls. Girls in poor neighborhoods and unstable families may be able to climb their way out. Boys are less likely to do so. In Canada, boys born into the poorest households are twice as likely to remain poor as their female counterparts. In American schools, boys’ academic performance is more influenced by family background than girls’ performance. Boys raised by single parents have lower rates of college enrollment than girls raised by single parents.

Second, policies and programs designed to promote social mobility often work for women, but not men. Reeves, a scholar at the Brookings Institution, visited Kalamazoo, Mich., where, thanks to a donor, high school graduates get to go to many colleges in the state free. The program increased the number of women getting college degrees by 45 percent. The men’s graduation rates remained flat. Reeves lists a whole series of programs, from early childhood education to college support efforts, that produced impressive gains for women, but did not boost men.

Read more.

[upnorthprogressive]

Meet the Candidates: Floyd Brown for Lake County Probate Judge

Lake County’s primary election on August 6, 2024, eliminated a long list of candidates for Lake County Probate Judge. Of the two remaining candidates, one of them is a Lake County resident with real community roots and an impressive career history. That candidate is Floyd Brown.Floyd Brown graduated from Baldwin High School in 1984. He attended community college in Kalamazoo for one year before…

[amymedbiller]

Leading 5 Accredited Medical Billing Schools in Michigan: Your Path to a Rewarding Healthcare Career

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[roga-el-rojo]

As Black As Resistance - Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson

Hello friends,

For this next week’s Black August recommendation, I’m foregrounding conversations around revolutionary Black anarchy as a way of creating conditions for Black liberation: “As Black As Resistance” by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson.

Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctoral student in Medical Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the scientific logics that produce race and gender, particularly focusing on transgender health and the ways Blackness is constructed.

William C. Anderson is a freelance writer. His work has been published by the Guardian, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others. You can read many of his writings at Truthout or at the Praxis Center for Kalamazoo College, where he's a contributing editor covering race, class, and immigration.

“As Black As Resistance” is a powerful critique of the anti-Black U.S. settler capitalist project, advocating for radical action in order to help Black people become ungovernable under this regime of gratuitous violence. The authors emphasize the importance of grounding current movements in the Black radical tradition to achieve true liberation, and use personal acknowledgments and reflections as clarion calls for Black self-emancipation.

In particular, they ground themselves in a Black Anarchist tradition that also sees the anti-Black settler capitalist state as unable to be reformed, and one which revolutionaries can’t replace since it can’t guarantee Black safety. Instead, learning from various radical Black movements such as the Black Panthers they call for collective self-defense in the face of oppression, as well as building alternative institutions not based on domination, hierarchy, and control.

Their reflections on abolitionism and anarchism are a case in point. Instead of seeing these as negative critiques of the status quo, they’re opportunities to build alternative institutions that affirm Black humanity, Indigenous sovereignty, and liberate all of us from patriarchy, ableism, class society, and other oppressive systems. This is especially prescient during Black August given the reflection time we’re gifted during this time.

I highly recommend y’all read this book, even if you’re not an anarchist you can find some wonderful inspirations in their reflections and it helps sharpen our analysis on what freedom can look like and how to be cautious on not reproducing harm in our quests for change. I know I’ve certainly learned a lot!

[northiowatoday]

College Soccer: No. 24 Hawkeyes tie Western Michigan, 1-1

KALAMAZOO, Mich. – No. 24 University of Iowa Soccer tied Western Michigan, 1-1, on Thursday afternoon. The Hawkeyes move to 1-0-1 on the season. Senior Meike Ingles wasted no time scoring a goal in the 3rd minute of the game. The goal was assisted by senior Kenzie Rolling and sophomore Millie Greer. The goal marks Ingle’s second goal of the young season. Ingle’s two goals are tied with freshman…

[crystal-in-nagasaki]

what's next?

After almost three incredible years, my time here in Japan has come to a close. I've shared on this personal blog more than 100 memories that I can keep with me forever and look back on, which I'm so grateful for. Saying goodbye to my students, coworkers, friends, and neighbors has been incredibly painful, but I'm happy with my decision to return home, and believe the timing is right.

That means this blog has finally served its purpose and will come to an end. It's bittersweet, but I'm thankful for the opportunity to share all of my memories here over the years.

In this final post, I'd just like to give an update about what's ahead for me after my return to the US.

As soon as I entered my final year in Japan, I began planning for my future career back home. I was at first at a loss about what to do, because I majored in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) in university, but never did student teaching or received a teaching certificate as I had been planning to work abroad for the majority of my career. Although I've loved being in Japan, my priorities have changed, and I now want to settle in the US long term instead of abroad, so I had to begin figuring out a career path using my degree.

Eventually after much research and reaching out to past college professors, I decided to enroll in graduate school to acquire a teaching license in Michigan. I was accepted to an MA program at Western Michigan University in elementary teaching that will begin at the end of August and finish in December of next year, awarding me an MA and a teaching certification in the state of Michigan.

Alongside my course work, I of course wanted to continue to work in schools. Luckily one of my professors told me that due to the current teacher shortage, some schools will hire non-certified teachers as long as they are on a path to a license. Therefore, I began mass applying to schools all over the state to try to find a school that would hire me while working towards my license.

After many late night job interviews over video call, I was finally hired as an elementary ESL teacher by Kalamazoo Public Schools for the 2024-2025 school year. I'm beyond grateful to them for giving me the opportunity to work as a full-fledged teacher while also working towards my MA, and they will even help pay for my graduate tuition.

As many people know, I met my lovely girlfriend Frankie while abroad in Japan, and she is also returning to the US this summer. She's from Louisiana, but as we near one year together, we've decided to make the choice to move in together in Michigan. We've already found a two bedroom apartment in Kalamazoo, where we'll live together with my cat Kiwi and dog Rosie, inherited from my father after his passing. I'm sure it will be an overwhelming time, but we're excited to start our new life with our little family.

I've made so many beautiful memories in Japan that I will keep with me for the rest of my life. Though it's hard to say goodbye to the community that I've built here, I'm excited to head into my next chapter with my beloved partner and pets.

Thank you for reading this blog through the years. It's meant a lot to me to write it and keep these memories alive for me to be able to revisit later. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I've enjoyed writing it.

I hope everyone keeps happy and healthy from now on, and good things come your way.

Goodbye <3

[3ashell]

Goodmorning even tho it's the afternoon, my tio and tia and cousin jus left, my older cousin is staying here with us a lil longer. I have technically many deadlines to do, for a school that has time and time again disappointed me, and hurt me mind body and soul. I've realized with many talks with my sister that I don't wanna leave home, I dont wanna go on study abroad, I've struggled enough as is studying, and to be abroad for 3 months while my parents waste all that money on me would almost be a death sentence. I'm choosing how to live my life, and i refuse to continue sacrificing my life, wellbeing, and money for kalamazoo college. Once my older cousin is gone, my sister is gonna help me to have this talk with my parents. I'm scared, and I'm worried, but at the end of the day: I would much rather have this talk with them then to continue feeling the crushing weight, pressure, and shame school as put me through. Because at the end of the day, this is my life, and I take my time day by day