11月16日～17日Happo-cho part 2! I was sent to the same junior high school as last time, but with Tekle and Kobito now. The day went by a lot quicker as there was actually a schedule for us to follow compared to our first visit. We played a Jeopardy-type game with all three classes and levels (a.k.a. the whole school). We also caught an interesting ( Read more... )

I'm so behind on making posts!! But quick updates:

11月2日: We had a nabe party with V-ACT! Stayed at Tai's dorm and made kiritanpo nabe, and a kimchi nabe. Of course I only ate the kiritanpo one. (.w.;) Good fun! Followed by a drinking session with the usual gang (Chris, Ebib, Racquel, Rei, Marcela and Rebeca), with Mai and Saho as special guests ( Read more... )

19th-20th of October was for the first Happo-cho program! Happo-cho is a series of trips to different places & communities around Happo-cho city. We help teach in English classes, interact with locals, and even stay with a host family for a night. For this month's trip, we went to a junior high school, a preschool, and an old folks home ( Read more... )

October 7-8 was the AIU festival. My camera was dead half the time so I couldn't get a lot of pictures, nor buy a lot of food from the stalls because lol poverty, but I did have lots of fun, especially with seeing how such a little school (~800 people including 100+ foreigners) could pull off an event like this. ( ・ω ( Read more... )

I think I've been sleeping pretty late for the past few days! Ever since we've started sharing/buying ingredients and cooking for ourselves, we've usually been hanging out at Chris' dorm in Global Village with Ebib and whoever else happens to want to come along. Cooking leads to talking leads to movies leads to late nights but good times. We ( Read more... )