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Surprises

Monday, 6 Oct 2008 | Views [80] | Comments [3]

Today is Monday the 6th of October. Last Friday we had another seminar thingy in a nearby town. We were sent a map that made it look like the venue was directly over the road from the station, but no, it was a good 20 minute walk if you knew where ... Read more >


September ends

Tuesday, 30 Sep 2008 | Views [92] | Comments [2]

It's been over two months now which is a substantial proportion of the one year contract, I am still very much a fish out of water, it will clearly take more than a year to achieve any kind of assimilation into the community. Here's a very fragmented ... Read more >


JHS sports day

Thursday, 25 Sep 2008 | Views [90]

junior high school sports day was yesterday, it's a weekday so not as big a family affair, a few mothers came along and the local bigwigs I guess. It was a fun day, not as crazy as the elementary event but that's to be expected. I didn't have any actual ... Read more >


Nikko again, and some crazy Bikers

Monday, 22 Sep 2008 | Views [265] | Comments [1] | Video

Check the gallery for pictures from my second visit to Nikko. This time I went with Waka-san who came up from Yokohama, and Andrew. We spent Saturday driving to Nikko and the nearby lake in the mountains. Nikko is about 90-100 minutes from my place.... Read more >

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Saturday 13th

Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008 | Views [102] | Comments [4]

On Saturday we had sports day at the elementary school. It was a lot of fun. There are some pictures in the gallery. One of the highlghts for me was a confusin game involving giant coloured balls and basins of flour. I have no idea what was going on ... Read more >


School Visit

Friday, 12 Sep 2008 | Views [113] | Comments [1]

Today our school was visited by students and staff from Nishimachi International School in Tokyo. The came up on a bus trip and spent a couple of hours with our students, either playing table tennis in the gym or dong an experiment in the science lab.... Read more >


Birthday

Friday, 5 Sep 2008 | Views [301] | Comments [4] | Video

Friday was work as usual, I didn't tell anyone at work it was my birthday, I prefer to keep it low key. At 4pm I left to catch the train for Tokyo. Normally I stay at work till 5.30 or 6, my contract says 4pm but no one else leaves that early and I'm ... Read more >


End of the week

Friday, 29 Aug 2008 | Views [246] | Comments [6]

It’s Friday afternoon and I’m about to lose the internet for the weekend again, since work is still my only regular source. So what happened this week? Classes started of course, Junior High School anyway, Elementary on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon ... Read more >


School starts

Tuesday, 26 Aug 2008 | Views [117] | Comments [5]

There has been a cold, wet shift in the weather for the last week. Much better than the hot humid days we were having. Summer is far from over though so this probably won't last long, I'm enjoying it though, it hasn't really stopped raining for about ... Read more >


random stuff and an orientation video

Tuesday, 19 Aug 2008 | Views [202] | Comments [3] | Video

I don't have anything to write really, I covered orientation stuff already, but I needed somewhere to put the youtube link of the shamisen class. Completely unrelated, today at work there was a kerfuffle to do with me. One of the teachers who sits ... Read more >


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