Anachronistic updates: Yesterday at school our classes were rained out. We only had day care and later we were cutting out shapes for Saturday’s lesson. Rumour among the foreigners had it that there was a typhoon on the way, or maybe it had already come through - it rained so heavily the night before that it woke most of us up. I watched the news ( Read more... )

Written from notes taken August 12th-15th.

Awa Odori (literally "Awa Dance" - Awa is derived from the old Awa Province) is a great chance for tourists to come to Tokushima, discover its traditions, meet its people, and leave their garbage hither and yon all over downtown. This year, Tokushima played host to approximately 630,000,000 people, and ( Read more... )

What a gorgeous Sunday!

Today we had our first language class with J. (yes! that J.!), who had just gotten back from a vacation to New Zealand. (She loved it. And she says that, yes, there are a lot of sheep there.) I hadn’t realized that the kindly older lady who taught us the two previous weeks was a substitute ( Read more... )

Wow, it's HOT today! I had to take off my coat when I picked up my bike at the train station and went to MaxValu. What a gorgeous, gorgeous day. Too bad it's a Sunday - we wasted half of it sleeping in, and for the other half you're thinking about going back to work the next day. =)

K-sensei A-sensei's nijikai was a great time. I had the wrong ( Read more... )

Taishoku hara ni mitsureba gakumon hara ni irazu.A full belly is not the stomach of a scholar ( Read more... )