Today for one of my elective classes I had the students get into groups of four, with one group of five, and I gave them a paper with the first two sentences of a story on it. Then I had the group add some more to the story. Then after a while I would have them pass the paper to the next group and etc. Here are the results! And yes I have left ( Read more... )

And to jump right in ( Read more... )

7:05pm level 1 ( Read more... )

I just watched the very first eppie of BLEACH. TV Tokyo is reshowing the series from the beginning on Mondays at 5:30p. Just like Naruto which is on Wednesdays at 5:30p. In Naruto we are at the beginning of the Gaara/Naruto show off after the Chuunin examine after Sasuke got beaten by Gaara and his sand buddy.

What does Evangelion and Sailor Moon have in common ( Read more... )

Recap! ^_^

( March 19th )

On the coast of Fuki-ken in Japan there is a little city called Obama (小浜). The main industry is fishing and back in the Edo period it was the starting point of the 'Mackerel Road' to Kyoto. Back in 2006 Senator Barack Obama came to Japan to give an interview and a man at passport control noted the name and mentioned it. The people in Obama have ( Read more... )

Well the cavity my American dentist found in August got treated yesterday by my new dentist in Japan. I should have gone earlier.... It was so late that she was throwing around the words 'root canal' for a while. But she thought she could just get away with a filling. Well that filling is going to be metal when I get it in next week. Right now ( Read more... )

Well I had a wonderful new business idea ( Read more... )

I am SO ready for winter to be OVER! Because of the cold I have been an emotional wreck most of this winter. Easily irritable and apathetic and completely unwilling to do anything much other than sit in my apartment and try to keep warm, unless it required getting out of town with a bunch of people I knew. Like my Hokkaido trip this past week. ( Read more... )