I am in school right now. I had 5 lessons today, man it was gruelling. I have elementary school tomorrow, and have already planned out my intro lesson, so I am taking a couple minutes here to update anyone who reads this on where I am.

I am now in the swing of things. I can’t […]

No, totally kidding, I actually told the kids to just call me Dana, but they insist on calling me Dana Sensei or Miss Dana. In any case, they are all incredibly adorable. I have had several professions of love from the boys and the girls are not shy about yelling “Beautiful Girl!” at me as […]

I lived last week for the thought of the wekend coming up. When we all left training we promised to meet in Tokyo on the next weekend, it really felt like more than a week that I was away from these people. Odd how you can become so close to people you’ve only just met. […]

The last week has been pretty good. I would probably be feeling even better if I actually was in my apartment, but I digress. I spent the week going to school for about 4 hours a day, getting to know the teachers, doing opening ceremonies, etc. Man do they love their ceremonies here, its insane.

So […]

Ok since I left the hotel in Asakusa my life has gone down the shitter. First I get on a train and head to Yamanashi, its about an hour and a half train ride, it was very pretty and I could see mount fuji clearly. It is really beautiful. But it all went downhill from […]