it's 2:30am, and i just lost a wicked snowball fight!

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The snow is coming. It's going to fall in massive amounts any time soon. It snowed overnight on Thursday and the cars on their way into the city in the morning on Friday had accumulations of snow on them. The flurries continued all day on Friday, but the winter sun and the warmth of the ground kept it from piling up there. It's going to be a ( Read more... )

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today was easily my strangest day in Japan thus far. everything seemed to be going against me this morning; my normal bike parking lot (a pachinko parlour, of course) was closed - chained shut for some reason - so i had to find another, which made me miss my morning bus. i watched it drive away from the station. i was a moment too late, and as a ( Read more... )

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as we waited for the other teachers to arrive, i went through the menu with my primary Japanese teacher of English, and explained my vegetarian diet to him, for probably the 5th time since i met him 3 months ago. we went dish by dish and i gave him a yay or nay on my feelings of eating fish, chicken, beef, pork, vegetables, tofu, egg, cheese, ( Read more... )

friends, i have a favor to ask:

can you please send me a postcard from your city or town? you'd be doing me a huge favor, and i'll use it in a lesson plan at school, so the kids will hear about how awesome your place is, and what a rad friend you are. thanks much!

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one thing is blariingly obvious about Japan, so far:

Japan is the reason why the band Mr. Big still exists, because i can't escape them for the life of me. my Japanese friends sing "to be with you" at karaoke, they haunt me during commercials for the late night news. please, make it stop!