A couple posts ago I provided a bevy of photos from the Junior High undokai. It’s now my pleasure to provide to you two videos.
A tech notice: if they videos don’t play for you, please check to make sure you have at least version 6 of Quicktime. You can get the latest version of Quicktime [...]
Filed under: Japan on September 29th, 2005 | No Comments »
While I’m completely enamored with my placement in Japan, it’s not completely perfect. One of the side effects of being in a small town that’s nestled in the mountains is that there is an abundance of … nature. I suppose that ‘nature’ proper is all well and good, it’s nature’s inhabitants that I take more [...]
Filed under: Japan on September 28th, 2005 | No Comments »
It came across my radar that there was a hip-hop event going down at a club in Tottori-shi and that there was a group of JETs attending. I’m not huge into hip-hop, but this was apparently a very cool event — one of the few of its kind in Tottori.
There was talk of how funny/cute [...]
Filed under: Japan on September 21st, 2005 | No Comments »
Sunday, Sept 4th, marked the date of the JHS (Junior High School) undokai, or sports festival. During the crazy preparations for undokai, I was often asked about the sports festivals in Canada, or if Canada even had sports festivals. I’m leaning towards the latter’s sentiment. Maybe we would have days where we all played sports [...]
Filed under: Japan on September 7th, 2005 | 1 Comment »
calendar date: August 29th, 2005
While I’d been in Japan for over a month, classes had yet to start, which isn’t to say the students weren’t coming to school, or that teachers weren’t usually busy doing something, but the activities that people were engaged in weren’t formal classes.
August 29th that changed.
With the start of the second [...]
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calendar date: July 24, 2005
26 hours after departure (10 in the air + 16 time change) we touched down at Narita airport. The JET Programme’s 20 some odd years of experience ushering bewildered foreigners into Japan shone through, as we were easily able to progress through all the various steps necessary to get ourselves to [...]
Filed under: Japan on September 1st, 2005 | 2 Comments »
calendar date: July 23, 2005
One couldn’t ask for a better scenario than to start off a chronological blog with the start of a trip. Well, an adventure, really.
A bit of history: During the early part of my university studies, my Japanese sensei introduced the class to the JET Programme. The JET Programme requires that you [...]
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