Aaaaaaaand *drumroll* I got placed in Saitama!
I had a little squealing dance party at that moment, jumped up, ran around my house while my parents just looked at me and muttered, "Must've gotten her placement" and went back to reading the newspaper.
Just so you have a reference, behold:
Saitama is pretty much the closest you can get to Tokyo without being IN Tokyo (Aside from Yokohama...).
My first choice was Kanagawa-ken, which is where Yokohama is located. I am extremely surprised that I got this placement, but it makes me really happy!
I can actually see my boyfriend on the weekends. We'll be roughly a 2 hour train ride apart, but we can be normal; instead of this incredibly lonely long-distance relationship limbo, we can finally see each other on a regular basis, go out on dates, do normal, couple things that everyone else I know seems to take for granted.
I do feel a little bad for one of my friends who got placed in Niigata, although I'm sure she'll make the most of it. As for the JETs I met at Taco Tuesday, they got placed in Hiroshima-ken, Nagano-ken, Ishikawa-ken (to the west of Nagano-ken), and Akita-ken (one of the northernmost prefectures on Honshu). Thus far, no one is close by me, but that just gives me an excuse to go and visit these people and soak up the part of Japan that I haven't seen!
As for the game at work, one of the doctors won! I'm glad it was her, because she's quite possibly the sweetest person to grace this world. Congratulations Jenevieve!
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