Jan 10, 2002 | Commentary, Culture
Christmas So I had mentioned that I was going to be playing Santa at a couple of Kindergartens over the holiday season. As you’ll recall however, I got extremely ill and was able to cop out of one of the visits, but not before St. Nick paid a visit to Jingo...
Jan 10, 2002 | Commentary, Culture, Fukuma
Welcome to Japan – where contradictions are a way of life. We’ll get the meaning of that in a few paragraphs, but first I need to apologize for my extended absence lately. I didn’t intend to be gone from the site this long, but I guess I just got...
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 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...
Nov 29, 2001 | Commentary, Culture, Fukuma
Don’t fool yourselves, there is no cohesive theme holding this update together, whatsoever. We’re talking this update has all the continuity of a fever-dream, baby. But it couldn’t be helped, I’ve just been a little too scatterbrained after the...
