The ride to school yesterday was far more eventful than any occurrence at school, and it all began in a crosswalk.
Every morning there are lots of people, mainly high schoolers and some older people, who walk or bike to their schools/jobs. Yesterday, like most any other day, I was a member of this crowd. We […]

Oh, the musical opportunities I’ve been passing up here.
This evening Beth was able to go back in time and mingle in with a bunch of goth high school Japanese girls–the fantasy of many men and a dream come true for Beth, I’m sure. You see, tonight Beth fulfilled this fantasy by attending Dir en grey’s […]

Oh what a night. It went from cheap to really fucking expensive quite quick, and it all started when I messaged Mark and asked what he and friends were doing…
At about 9:15 I got a response that he and Chet were heading over to Kenji’s, a very small local hangout that’s literally under the parking […]

Let’s get this straight.
I’m trying to buy unicycle parts from a Korean company (warning: you might get extremely pumped by going to that site) that uses Won. The Korean company just opened up an international site that lists prices in Euros. I’m paying with my US Chase bank account that has funds I converted from […]

I wasn’t in that great of a mood tonight. Japan was starting to grate on me, and I really just wanted a big cheap pepperoni pizza.
To alleviate some of the night’s boredom I turned on my TV and flipped around, hoping that something good would be on.
My needs were met.
When I turned on the TV […]

So far I haven’t exactly been a fan of the oncoming winter here, and it’s not just from coinciding with the low point of the culture shock curve.
For the past two months or so the sun has been setting annoyingly earlier and earlier. There’s no daylight saving time, and even if there was it […]

Have you ever wondered how a cheetah looks like when he’s taking a piss? Have you ever wondered how big of a dump a zebra can take, with play-by-play pictures? Have you ever had the desire to see the full length and girth of an elephant penis (it’s damn big) as he’s spraying the savannah? […]

At my current school I have a kid who I shall refer to as Chikubi due to him oh-so-lovingly teaching me that ‘chikubi’ means ‘nipple’. For the next few weeks after Chikubi introduced me to this material, he’d run up to me and yell, “MASTURBATION!” at varying points throughout the day. He also has a […]

This post was updated on December 8, 2007 to add some more photos.

Thanksgiving. It was one of the best meals I’ve had since coming to this country. I refused to let this holiday pass without celebrating it with busting my gut full of food, so I invited some other JETs and some of their Japanese […]