Well as NOVA is now a week late paying all the foreign teacher wages as well as over a month late in paying the Japanese staff it seems that their collapse is imminent. Supposedly some shady stock deal with companies in the Virgin Islands is going to put about 70 million dollars into the company on the 24th, but the NOVA president is so untrustworthy you can't believe what he says. Like the fact that we were supposed to get paid today according to some fax he sent out last Saturday, but SURPRISE no pay today and no explanation. He did this last month to the senior teachers by feeding them faxes like that FOUR times until they were finally paid three weeks late. So nevertheless no one has any faith in him and as far as I am aware almost every NOVA teacher is refusing to go into work until we are paid, essentially shutting the company down. I have boycotted three days this week and go on paid holiday tomorrow until November second, so who knows what will happen. All I care about is that we get our pay for September as I work about 30 hours overtime...BUT life is going great except for the whole not getting paid thing. I'm loving living with Ayuko and her family and just being in the countryside as opposed to the concrete jungle. I'm putting up some much requested pictures of Ayuko with this post and will put up some more of the area as soon as I take them.