Saturday, July 19th was supposed to be my last activity-date with my SFC2 girls, Naoko, Saki, and Asuka... but fortunately, we've managed to squeeze in one more outing together later this week. I have the photos from our trip to the fire station where I work posted, so I'll do a photo-journal entry for now ( Read more... )

This will actually be the last American holiday I get to authentically enjoy for the next few years. I kinda wished things panned out better in the end, but I did get to see my SFC students (well, Naoko and Saki, at least... Asuka was sick, again). We turned today into an all-day culture lesson.

As my craptastic luck would have it, Franklin didn't ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, I made plans to go to the beach with my friend Amanda, who's visiting from Texas. Seeing this as a way to get my students' some pretty cool American-life exposure, I invited Naoko, Asuka, and Saki to join us. Being a little pressed for time, we chose Horseneck State Beach as our destination. Even though the weather report called ( Read more... )

Today I can finally cross off the last item on my checklist of things I need to do in order to officially declare my list full and complete. That's right...  as of Tuesday, June 24th 2008, I have done everything that one single person can accomplish.  The final piece to the puzzle:

I taught 3 Japanese collegegirls the meaning of the word... "poop."

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I'm 27 now. I don't know what's worse: the fact that no one believes me when I tell them that I'm 27... or just the fact that I AM 27. >___<

Tonight was fun.  I swung by the school to pick up Naoko, Asuka, and Saki, then we took the shuttle to the D Line trolley station, walked a few blocks to the B Line, then jumped on a Green Line train.  I had ( Read more... )

I took Naoko, Saki, and Asuka (my SFC Japanese exchange students) to Cambridge on Monday for the Memorial Day festivities.  We also visited the Boston Museum of the Science that same afternoon.  Riding on the MBTA Green D Line, we had to make a few stops... first for signal problems, the second to switch to a shuttle because of track construction ( Read more... )

... but for now, I'm kinda in that "wow... I can't believe it's true" phase ( Read more... )

Back from Chicago... had an awesome time.  Wish I had extended myself a little more into talking with other attendees, but it was a busy weekend and it's tough to figure out who is in my own age range.  Anyway, con had it's ups and down, much like any other con.  I'll be posting my review on Anime-Source.com by Friday.  Visit the site now to see ( Read more... )