Caught up with a couple of ex-students today. Both are studying to be nurses, one in Ehime prefecture and the other here in Okinawa. Along with several other teachers, we chatted about their fellow students, who have now scattered as far as the USA. They were quite shocked however, to find that many of the teachers they knew had left - in fact, in ( Read more... )

I've been back from my trip home - ostensibly to get my Australian residential visa renewed - for about two weeks, but cramming for yet another Japanese test whilst also catching up with a few friends here and there has kept me rather exhausted. Japanese test, again?! Yes, I never learn...though it was the complete slacking-off over my two-week ( Read more... )

An old school friend recently took part in an art exhibition in Tokyo. Art is a part time hobby for her (one of many), stemming from way before the time we both took Art during our high school years. If I read her blog correctly (it's in Japanese), she applied to a gallery on a whim, and was one day informed that she'd been selected for an ( Read more... )