A huge part of Japanese work culture is turning up. There are many days here that I don't have class, but I would have to take part of my carefully hoarded vacation time should I want to go home. Appearances are everything ( Read more... )

The school is abuzz with preparations for the school festival; predictions of a typhoon be dammed! There are a small army of students painting enormous banners and shoving food tickets for me to buy at every corner. They've got quite a racket going. Of course, all this excitement means no classes for me! It will change next week I think, but until ( Read more... )

The shift from blogger to lj has not gone as seamlessly as I would have liked. I seem to have lost my lj friends in the shuffle (oh you lazy people, spoiled by your easy access friends page). I like having a separate blog page for organisation sake, but I am going to start cross posting to here as well ( Read more... )