Hanabi means fireworks, but the literal translation is ‘flower fire’ or ‘flowers of fire.’ Japan goes all out in the summer, each town hosting their own Hanabi Festival. August 21st was the Isawa/Fuefuki festival. Ichinomiya (my town) is part of the city of Fuefuki, but Ichinomiya had their own festival on the 16th of August […]

This is just a quick note to say that I am not dead. I just returned to Japan from a pretty great and at the same time horrible trip home to the USA. I am not going to go into details because, well its my life and I don’t want to share it at the […]