So there's this one special kid who is now a 3nensei at Ota. He was a 1nensei when I firs tgot there and he was crazy and tried to run over other kids with his bike on bicycle training day, and once I was babysitting him in the nurses office and he started to take off all his clothes, and I think he bit me once. Other than that we get along fine ( Read more... )

You know all those awesome metal t-shirts from bands like Hammerfall and Rhapsody I wore during my college years ( Read more... )

Today at the monthly morning assembly Watanabe Sensei mentioned the earthquake in China. He referred to China has a country really close, a neighbor, to Japan, which I thought was really nice. Sometimes there's tension between Japanese and Chinese peeps so it was cool hearing him talk about China in a friendly way ( Read more... )

With all the news about a tax holiday in America, I think they should do what Japan does. AT a few gas stations after you pump your own gas, you pay for it, and there is an electronic slot machine right on the pump. Match 3 symbols in a row and you get some money back ( Read more... )

It boggles the mind how the American news is making such a huge deal about having to pay $3.70 per gallon of gas. Do they have any idea how much gas costs elsewhere in the world? Gas here costs $5.72 a gallon. I hear Britian's gas prices are even worse. It's really hard to feel sorry for those peeps driving SUVs in America and have to pay over $100 ( Read more... )

Last night I went to a battle of the (cover) bands. Ok, it wasnt much of a battle, but it was fun ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I got dinner with Miwa and a bunch of old teachers from Mikuni High School. The main reason for the dinner was cause Kizu Sensei was getting married so we all got together to write her a message. I wrote her a nice message despite Miwa's encouragement to write her a message along the lines of 'Hurry up and pop out lots of babies ( Read more... )

So last Saturday was the annual Fukui ALT Poker Tournament, held for charity every year to send $$$ to send our girl Sopa through college. The first time I ever played Texas Hold'em (or any kind of poker for that matter) was a week before last year's tournament at ALT Poker School. I ended up winning a table there and thus my entrance into last ( Read more... )

3.141 baby!!!

So there's this chain of British Pubs called Hub here in Japan. Always full of gaijin. Last weekend I went to Osaka and went to a hub with Harland, Karyu, and some dude named Greg. It was full of people and we had trouble finding a seat ( Read more... )