Hello everyone :) I am an apprentice jeweler in Texas, and am recently married. I have been to Japan twice (once for a month as an exchange student in 2007, and for 2 weeks for our honeymoon in May ).

I have taken a few years of Japanese in college and started textfugu last year, but I kinda stopped when I frustrated myself by trying to go too fast. This time I am taking a much more paced approach and studying for one hour every day, 19 days in a row so far! My goal is to be able to muddle my way through a copy of Harry Potter I have in Japanese, its going to be a long long time before I can even try, but it will be fun getting there :)

I am still thinking about trying to get into the JET program, but I am not sure if dropping everything and dragging my husband to Japan with me will hinder our budding careers too much…