Kana invited me to the Fukui University festival and man was it awesome. I was supposed to get there noonish cause she had to leave at 1, but I slept in late and got there at 12:30. I ran into Kana and talked before she had to leave ( Read more... )

so I went to see piartes of the caribbean 3 friday night with a ton of ALTs. Mirta, my success, was there and she said "Rich I got something for ya!" Turns out a girl I met once over 2 years ago had written me at Sunny House, the apartment where I used to live. She didn't know I had moved and Mirta ended up getting the letter ( Read more... )

Yesterday was bicycle training day at school. They had the kids rehearse how to get on and off of a bike ( Read more... )

So I saw Yukari, a japanese girl who used to live in Mikuni, for the first time in a year or so last weekend. She went to London to study English and is now a stewardess all over europe ( Read more... )

so I went to the mikuni festival saturday and sunday. (curse all you lazy people who didn't go,you missed out!) well, not on saturday, cause it was raining and windy and cold and no one was there ( Read more... )

So far so good. I've done 3 interval runs, 6 circuit weight trainings, been riding my bike to walk, going for walks, and ordering salads + milk or oj at bars instead of fries + beer. I'm as regular as the public transport here, but I still haven't lost any weight. Of course I'm gonna keep it up, perhaps its time to up the running and # of times I ( Read more... )

So this all but guarantees my entrance to burn in the fires of hell. Today I was teaching jobs like "I'm a pilot, I'm a police officer, I'm a chef" etc. But on "I'm a chef" the homeroom teacher chimed in "I'm a cock." I looked at her stunned, "huh?" And she said "Can't you say cock? I'm a cock?" She obviously meant cook, so I said "Yea, you can say ( Read more... )

so the vice principal at my school helps me teach the 4th graders, who are split in half for two different periods so they get the bestest English education possible. They would, that is, of the vice principal actually tried to help class. Instead he spends most of the team beating up on the boys trying to get them to be quiet. 3rd period one boy ( Read more... )

So I've officially completed week 1 of the Abs Diet. That means 3 circuit training weight workouts, 2 interval training 20 minute runs, 2 karate classes, and 6 meals a day of awesomeness. During the week it's easy cause my schedule is fixed and school lunch has a billion power foods. Weekends are a bit more difficult cause my schedule gets changed ( Read more... )

last night's concert was pretty fun. I got there right at 6:30 and the promoter dude I know did a run in while I was paying and got me a discount cause my name was on the VIP list. I'm cool like that ( Read more... )