Life never ceases to be boring, if you make efforts to keep yourself interested. At least, that’s how I feel after the last three months. I mentioned near the beginning of the year that I’d be leaving my job with American Language School in West Tokyo to move on to other things. That all went [...]
Tokyo summers are hot. I learned that 3 seconds after stepping off the plane at Narita airport one year ago in the middle of July. I’m re-living that experience again now. A few months ago I was priding myself on my ability to cocoon myself in my heated room and snuggle into a nest of [...]
Hey, hi, what’s up. I made it! My bag did not. I must wait another day for it. Le sigh. So yeah, Japan. WEE!
Okay, so I’m not really packing up as I write this – I’m sitting in the Portland airport waiting to catch my next flight. I read the post I wrote when I was heading to Japan for the first time last summer. I was anxious, full of excitement, extremely apprehensive, and ultimately, absolutely terrified of [...]
Continued from Part 1: These posts are pretty image-heavy, so in the interests of saving your computer a little bit, please click the “Read More” link. (Kyoto) Here we did mostly the same things I did with Gram back in the summer – we visited the Imperial Palace and the Golden Pavilion during one day, [...]
Since this (and the following) post are very image-heavy, and I don’t want to crash anyone’s computer, please click the “Read More” link below. After the conclusion of my internship, I had one day to recover from the madness before hustling to Narita airport to pick up my parentals. They were very, very excited to [...]