Uuuuuuuugh.

So.  I think my adventures in Nagasaki decreased my white blood cell count or something equally preposterous.  Monday night I started getting a sore throat.  I’ve had it all day today.  I’m battling… Read More →

Of Dust and Nagasaki, or Why I Want a New Camera

This last weekend I went to Nagasaki City to see the Lantern Festival, a yearly celebration/parade/light…thing to celebrate Chinese New Years. (Nagasaki, due to its varied history as the longest existing international port… Read More →

Yeah, I’m def totes down with that, yo.

Partially because I want to seem like the “Cool Teacher” and also just because I think it’s fun, I often chat-it-up with my students or ask them how to say things.  The trouble… Read More →

Frozen to the Marrow

You will probably need to have Japanese characters installed on your computer to view this blog entry correctly. As most of my friends and family know, Japan in the winter (exempting Hokkaido) is… Read More →

Yes, I’m one of *those* people.

So this morning I had my flight from Fukuoka to Hong Kong.  It left at 10:30.  Except the 21st is Pay Day, and I Needed That Money Bad.  Some of you may not… Read More →

365 Out takes: June 6th

A few of the pictures that I thought were good, but maybe not as interesting as the one that I posted on my project 365 blog.  What do you think?  Did I make… Read More →

And Ava said let there be video of us being Maiko-han, and behold, there was…

And she saw that we were… …well… …not bad.  But definitely not good.  Ah well.  We tried our best.  :)

How to be Geisha-fied

The process for turning oneself into the stereotypical representation of Japanese womanhood (white face, red lips, crazy, stiff hair, and yards of fabric wound around you over and over) is, expectedly, a long… Read More →

舞子はん

Ava and I had our fan dancing performance today, and it was a lot of fun.  I’m totally relieved that we get a reprieve from the PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE OMG schedule we had… Read More →

可笑しい

This morning Ava and I drove up to Katsumoto to have a special fan dancing lesson with a renowned teacher, Fujiyama-sensei.  He is over 70-years-old, though he really doesn’t look a day over… Read More →