Feb 7, 2003 | Fukuma, Uncategorized
Right, so I’m off for the weekend to someplace in the middle of nowhere for the yearly trip with the Fukuma Board of Education. I’m sure you all remember what happened last year? I’ll probably be too hung over to even write about it until next...
Feb 4, 2003 | Commentary, Fukuma
But why?” Korolev shook his head, deeply confused. “Why have you come?” “We told you. To live here. We can enlarge this thing, maybe build more. They said we’d never make it […] It was our once chance to get out here on our own....
Jan 24, 2003 | Culture, Fukuma
I’m sitting at my desk today studying Japanese when all of a sudden, Shimamura-sensei whips out, of all things, an abacus and starts flinging little beads this way and that as he calculated a student’s grade. We had this conversation: When did you learn...
Jan 23, 2003 | Experiences, Photography
I did make it clear that last time when I said, “Check back tomorrow”, “tomorrow,” in fact means “Tuesday,” right? I did mention that and we’re all on the same page, yeah? Okay, thought so. Good. Sadly, I had my first data...