Dec 18, 2001 | Culture, Fukuma
While you can see a little holiday cheer in the city, for the most part you don’t see a whole lot of Christmas decor here in Japan. To help compensate, I do what I can to deck out my computer’s interface with the proverbial Spirit o’ th’...
Dec 18, 2001 | Culture, Fukuma
This week, Fletcher and I got bamboozled into visiting our local kindergartens and spreading the good will of the Christmas season by dressing up as Santa Claus and parading around like idiots (sadly, I don’t think we got any photos of this). Don’t get me...
Dec 18, 2001 | Fukuma, Rants
So I had a wonderful update planned, full of Cheerful Holiday….uh…Cheer, I guess, but then I went and got sick as hell on Thursday and have stayed that way straight through the weekend. I’m only just now starting to recover. It was so bad I even...
Dec 10, 2001 | Fukuma, Language
In other news, class still proves to be a barrel of laughs. Today, Shiraki-sensei and I had the pleasure of teaching all about prepositions (you know: in, on, by, etc) to a group of lively first-year students. Damn, I love these kids. We were drilling them with...
Dec 10, 2001 | Fukuma, Photography
Here’s the photo tour of my daily bike ride to school that I had mentioned way back when. I was originally going to show a town map outlining the journey and also show the alternate route through town that I sometime take, but I ultimately decided against it...
