This past month has been quite memorable. December has always been a month where I've only prepared for Christmas, maybe New Year's, and my mother's birthday. However, this year has definitely been special ( Read more... )

Today I went to one of the elemntary schools in the town. 岩根沢(Iwanesawa) elementary school is a school somewhat up in one of the surrounding mountains and has only 10 students in the whole school. The funny thing is, my taxi ride to the school costs about twenty bucks one way. That's a forty dollar trip. Luckily, my Board of Education pays for ( Read more... )

Sorry for the wait everyone. Here's the way overdue update. Actually, its just a continuation of my last entry. I will try and spread out my experiences of the past month over a few entries in a span of a few days. If I try to do so in one entry, it may be much too long for normal people to read and I'd spend way too much time typing it out ( Read more... )

Last week, students from Frisco, Colorado visited and stayed in Nishikawa for about a week. The two towns are sister towns in whch they alternate years visiting each other as part of an international exchange program. I spent most of last week visiting the schools with them acting as thier interpreter. It was pretty amusing actually because I'd ( Read more... )

Growing up in the city for most of your life can really disconnect yourself from nature. I remembered when I was back in elementary school at around 5th or 6th grade, we had a special ceremony for planting two trees in front of the 3rd and 4th grade wing. The trees are still there, but at the time, I, like the rest of the students standing around ( Read more... )

The weekend came and so did the 中体連 (Chutairen), Junior High School Sports Competition. In a span of about three days, I watched my students compete against other local schools in the sport of volleyball, baseball, basketball, table tennis, canoe, kendo, and softball. I'm in awe at how good these Junior High Students are in these sports. ( Read more... )

I've been having so much fun working that I don't feel like I'm working at all.

"Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all...Nothing at all...Nothing at all."
"Stupid sexy Flanders."Haha, I haven't thought about the Simpsons in a while. Anyways, last Wednesday I had an evaluation class with my fellow English teachers. The evaluators kept on ( Read more... )

Wow! Last week was really fun. I think I've finally reached "Rock-Star" status when people start asking for my autograph. Not just some...but a lot. Went to two schools for the first time last week and one school yesterday. Last Friday was really fun. I taught at a school named Mutsuai which means "Everyone Loves". There, they kept asking ( Read more... )

The television programming is so awesome. There is always something interesting to watch. The really crazy things on TV that I saw recently were ( Read more... )

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