I'll get the sad out of the way first. My computer, which has been in its death throes now for about three months, has finally really totally actually bitten the proverbial dust. It's over, probably. It's caught in a 'startup loop'...basically it comes on (yay), almost boots up but then goes to the blue screen saying, 'configuring updates stage 3 ( Read more... )

Today two happy things happened. One is in Japanese, but I'll do my best to explain...haha ( Read more... )

I love food, and I love cooking too. I hate the sometimes-epic fails that come with cooking; those are frustrating and expensive ( Read more... )

So, one of the awesome/annoying things Japanese schools do is clean themselves. By which I mean, every teacher is assigned an area and 5-10 kids, who clean under the teacher's "supervision," which means handing out brooms and mops and...whatever else. My area is the "smoker's staircase" and I have 10 kids from 1-5 ( Read more... )

So, apparently one of the writers block things last week was to talk about things you like/dislike about yourself. I didn't do it, but I really like that I can cook. haha ( Read more... )

The crowd was on it's feet, filling the gym with cries of encouragement ( Read more... )

Ok, I haven't posted in forever and you guys are going to be totally uninterested in this, but I am terribly excited because ( Read more... )

Back in the airport, and out of Nepal. What a lucky break for me to be hiking during the strike, and for it to end right when I needed it to. Thanks, Maoists, for your consideration. I picked up a few newspapers from the strike days that I'm taking back for the kids to practice English with. Should be good times. ;) The omiyage selection was ( Read more... )

So, I just got back from hiking, eight days on the trail. It was amazing beautiful and everything I'd hoped it would be, but more on that in a moment. What's more interesting is what was happening where I am now -- Pokhara. The Maoists staged a massive strike in an attempt to get the PM to step down. It was just resolved this morning (saving me a 9 ( Read more... )

So, Tyler and I left Kathmandu two days ago on a seven hour not-as-bad-as-others bus ride. We packed discount bakery goods that were leftover near closing the day before, and I bought some bananas for the trip. We got to Pokhara about 2 pm ( Read more... )