Unfortunately, I've given up the time from just before Christmas to now thanks to a complete lack of journalling responsibility. Suffice to say I saw the empeoror on his birthday, met some friends, had Christmas with some British folks and drunk Japanese people, saw some pretty lights for new years, went to a friends house for new year-ish ( Read more... )

quick update (got a big one coming before the end of the week)
here's the website for my school's internation center. this picture features me http://www.rikkyo.ne.jp/grp/cis/index.html

On the first floor of my dormitory are two community refrigerators. Tonight I discovered in one of them a milk carton with the following expiration date:

February 28, 2005

Oh, and it's not entirely empty, either.

Today I witnessed some Engrish that I had already seen at www.engrish.com ( Read more... )

Howdy All Y'all 'mericans.

I'm giving a presentation in class about cliches about Japan held by Americans.

So, if you could just help me out by listing as many cliches, mis/conceptions, ideas, etc. about Japan, that'd be super-duper. :)

-Thanks

Fortune has thrown to me a pair of blessings singing a duet of cheap lodgings and good times ( Read more... )

I realize that I have not given a true update in three weeks. I'm not sure where the time has gone, but whever it is, I know I won't find it again. I promise you an update before the end of this week, however.

That's as much a promise to you as it is a command to me to get into this chair and actually spend some time typing!

Yesterday I saw a man whose wig was balding. How is this possible, I ask? He was clearly wearing a wig--the hair looked neither attached to his head nor real. At the very top-back of his scalp, where many men naturally begin balding, was a bare patch. But beneath this, rather than a human scalp, was this shtrange combination of what looked like ( Read more... )

A warning to my recent Japanese readers:

You will see mistakes in this journal. For example, in one post I say that Daniel was "Starching his arms." Though I meant to say "scratching." Certainly a mistake. If you have questions, please ask.

読んでいる日本人に：このジャーナルを書く時、間違えました。たとえば、一回私は「ダニエルは手をのりで固めていった」と書きました。本当に、ダニエルは手をボリボリ掻いていました。もちろん、間違えました。問題があったら、

The Second Forgotten Weekend: Hanno Camping Trip ( Read more... )