Conquer Mt. Fuji! Thailand Pt. 2: Ayutthaya, Tigers, and Temples! Thailand Pt. 1 So I Went to Tokyo Disney Last Weekend Pt. 2: Disney Sea So I Went To Disney Last Weekend So I Went to Korea Last Weekend Coming Soon: Hokkaido Hijinks Pt. I: Sapporo, The Michigan of Japan! Coming Soon: Hokkaido Hijinks Pt. II: Niseko, The Frozen Australia of Japan! Treasure of Osaka! The Greatest Shirt Ever!?! The Ghostly Gaijin! Enter Kaatis-sensei! Toba and Nara! That dude knows what's up. Remember who you are.

Monthly Archives: October 2015

Filler Episode! Attack on Sensei!

I wish more shows would just declare filler like that, although just because it’s filler doesn’t mean it’s bad. Overall, there’s not much need for me to cover each class I teach as they repeat themselves and aren’t that exciting to talk about a lot of the time, but here are some of the more interesting […]

Silver Week! The Great Gaijin Migration!

The last full week of September was Silver Week. Silver Week is a magical holiday that happens once every few years (last in 2009, next in 2026) when Respect for the Aged Day (3rd Mon. of September) and the Autumnal Equinox occur within a day of each other, then the day in between them evolves into a holiday […]

Intense Typhoon! Fūjin’s Wrath!

For those unaware of Fujin, he is the god of wind and inspiration for Tornadus. He’s usually blue with a bag of wind around his neck. He’s almost always depicted with the god of thunder, Thor Zeus ThunderJesus Raijin (Thundurus). I prefer Raijin because he just looks cooler (with his Heatmiser hair and ring of drums). […]