As many of you know by now, I’ll be returning home shortly for the first time since I moved to Japan a year ago. The first things I want to eat when I get back include Five Guys and Buddy’s pizza. I haven’t decided what my second meal will be, yet. Either way, I’m gonna […]

The next morning Maki and I headed to the station to get breakfast before we all went to Ayutthaya, a city north of Bangkok. We couldn’t really find anywhere, so we got food from 7-Eleven (remember, it’s edible here) and I got some Dunkin’ Donuts (none in Japan). While we were waiting in the hot, […]

The first week of May is called Golden Week in Japan. This is because there are three national holidays in a row (as well as no school the Friday before). The only one people seem to remember is 5/5: Children’s Day. This year those days were from Tuesday to Thursday, but for some reason people […]

“Don’t forget to save your game” is one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received. It can be applied to anything nowadays: games, essays, blogs. After losing about half of what I wrote about Disney Sea, I think I managed to remember everything. If not, I’m sure I’ll touch on it at a […]

Friday morning I once again headed to school with my suitcase in tow. When I walked into the teachers’ room, the vice principal asks [Where are you going now?] I smiled and said, “Disneyland,” and she just started laughing since I was just going to Korea the last time I saw her. After work, I took a […]

The first day of spring. For many, it’s an almost meaningless day that is purely symbolic. A day that means, “Soon I won’t have to wear 5 coats every time I go outside!” Japan loves spring more than you do, however, because they made it a public holiday Therefore we just had a 3-day weekend. When deciding what […]

Hello, it’s me. I was wondering if after all these weeks you’d like to meet to go over everything. They say time’s supposed to heal ya, but I ain’t done much healing (or blog work, or most things other than video games and weekend trips, sorry). Hello, is it me you’re looking for? can you hear me? I’m […]

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 […]

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 […]

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). […]

Now, before we begin, I know some of you are thinking, “That’s a kind of weird title.” Others just thought, “Well, the titles are usually kind of weird.” The rest of you have watched anime. Now, while most American tv shows (cartoon and otherwise) tend to use puns or single words for episode titles, Japanese […]

This week marked my first visits to a few of my schools. And by this week, I mean the week of August 24th, not the much later date I got around to posting it (oops (…I did it again (that video has like a 38 second unnecessary intro, which I know because it’s now stuck […]