This evening I went to a friend of mine's apartment, which is about an hour and a half from where I live. He lives out in the middle of no where, basically. In the suburbs of no where. But I went and enjoyed the kotatsu he has.

This friend of mine is like my pusher for anime. I normally don't watch anime except maybe Bleach if it's on TV. But he ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago I was at work, sweeping the main entrance to the school with a bunch of the ninth grade kids ( Read more... )

Today at work, during cleaning time, I was out by the student entrance sweeping. I do this every day, and have for the past year ( Read more... )

Last weekend the latest Harry Potter movie came out in Japan. So my friend Kanako and I decided to go see it ( Read more... )

At work I eat with the kids, and then there's about a 15 minute break between lunch time and class. It's recess, I guess. Most of the kids spend the time going crazy indoors in the classrooms, but there's a group of boys who go out and play soccer ( Read more... )

Universal Fact: When a group of boys are left alone with nothing to do for one minute or more, they are going to start hitting each other and wrestling.

Today I was talking to some of the ninth grade boys after school while they were waiting for their friends, and one of them became frustrated that he couldn't think of a word in English. So he said to me, "You can speak Japanese ( Read more... )

I like this song, so I thought I'd share. It's by a very popular music artist here named Kana Nishino.

The song is called "If"

I translated the lyrics. ( Here. )

Every day after school I go stand at a crossroad near the school, and I say bye to the kids as they bike ride past. I also make sure they don't get hit by oncoming traffic by telling them to stop when a car approaches since apparently they're incapable of stopping to check, themselves ( Read more... )

When at school I'll sometimes hear loud noises. Sudden bangs like a desk has been launched across a room. People suddenly screaming ( Read more... )