I don’t normally like posts apologizing for not posting, but uh, it’s been a minute, so I am sorry to anyone who’s been wondering how we’re doing. We’re doing great! We’re just, like, settled in now.
We’re in a nice big Airbnb until early March, so like two months. We’ve got friends nearby, groceries and books and stuff all within walking distance, and so on. We’re comfortable and happy. There’s just not a lot to talk about.
Okay, so that’s not entirely true – but there aren’t a lot of, like, events to talk about. Few enough that even when we do do things, we’re out of the habit of posting about them, so we forget to tell you. We’re also way out of the habit of taking pictures, and we feel bad talking about cool things we saw without being able to show them to you!
The main thing occupying our thoughts now is how to stay. Our visas are good for the next two months, but we know that time is going to fly by, and as of yet we still have no real plan for how to stay past that point. Cassie’s currently pursuing jobs as an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher), but neither of the ALT companies that operate in Hakodate are willing to sponsor a visa for someone without a BA, so it’s not really an option for me. (They’ll still employ me if and when I can get a different visa that allows me to work here.) The problem there is that those jobs might not start soon enough to actually let us stay – one of the companies, Interac, won’t have positions until August, which is way past ideal.
We don’t have any other leads at the moment, but we’re also not super worried about it. If God’s got a plan for us to be here, he’ll have a plan for us to stay here – and knowing the way his plans have gone so far, it probably won’t kick into gear until the last minute. So we’re keeping a loose grip on things.
In the meantime, please feel free to pester us if you haven’t heard from us in a while; we really do want to stay in touch, we just don’t want to do a bunch of boring “We didn’t do anything this week!” posts, hah.