Updated subjects-Japan, hobbies, skills, etc
(On mobile so I apologize now for any errors)
It's been quite a while since I posted so here are a few subjects I may be able to help any of my fellow writers with:
Misc living and work:
• Living in Japan- 10+ years and counting living just outside Tokyo (mostly Chiba and a short time in Niigata).
• English teaching in Japan- 9+ years so far teaching children (2yrs and up) as well as adults.
• Teaching United English Braille- Grade 1 and 2
• Japanese language, traditions and culture, including marriage and divorce.
• Public Transportation and Banking in Japan
• Japanese weddings and funerals
• Tattoos - receiving, planning, care and discrimination.
• Facial piercings.
• Immigration - white American female to Japan. Visa (marriage and working) acquisition and procedures.
• Atheism (raised Baptist)
• Earthquakes- experienced the Great Tohoku Earthquake thankfully far enough away to have only moderate damage to my apartment/city/area.
Past US residences- Indiana, California, Colorado, Tennessee, Texas, Florida. Small and large cities, but mostly Indianapolis, Bloomington (IN), San Diego, San Francisco & Los Angeles.
Past Work Experience (all before 2009):
Dairy Queen
Movie Theater- concessions, usher, box office, management, Film Projectionist (building, screening, running machines and minor troubleshooting)
Minor landscaping and pond building
Restaurant work
Survey Research & Data entry (IU)
Walmart worker (various departments including cashier, pets, garden, cell phone and finally photo lab)
Photo Processing and camera sales (Ritz Camera of Beverly Hills)
Health-
• Universal healthcare (particularly compared to insurers and uninsured healthcare in the US pre-Obamacare)
• PCOS
• Kidney stones
• Aural migraines
Hobbies:
Hand embroidery
Gardening
Carnivorous plants
Veggies and berries
Paper craft
Origami
Clay modeling
Decoupage
Watercolor painting
Faux stain glass art
Pets:
Japanese beetles
Fancy mice
Fancy rats
Guinea pigs
Rabbits (past)
Dogs (past)
Cats (past)
Horses (past)
Freshwater aquariums- bettas (wild and domestic bubblenesters), tropical fish, goldfish, koi, shrimp, snails and Japanese Medaka (rice fish)
Lizards & amphibians- mostly wild caught it common in shops
Axolots (Mexican salamanders)
May add to this if anything major changes.