I have been insanely busy lately and I keep meaning to write in here, then forgetting. So here is a general update on the past couple weeks.

I expected things to kind of calm down after Sports Day weekend, and in some ways they did. But the end of the School Festival also meant the […]

Hao! I had to work today, a Sunday, but no matter because it was fun. The middle school had their annual sports day. All the kids played these various games against eachother all day, it was hilarious most of the time and I joined in a few things like the Tug-o-War. I will just go […]

First, I wanna talk about the fact that I have joined yet another club! No, three times a week at Karate was not enough for me, I am now doing Caligraphy twice a week as well! I hope I don’t burn myself out. But its good because both clubs are pretty lax about attendence. The […]

I have started Karate lessons. Learning a Martial Art was one of the things I most wanted to do while in Japan, and what better than the most Japanese of the Martial Arts? My first lesson went really well. At first I was a little embarassed because I had no idea what was going on […]

Ok so its been an interesting couple days here. Yesterday I had my first day back at my favorite elementary school (the one up the mountain). It was nice, they were all really happy to see me and the kids were so cute, as always. I always feel like its the only school where they […]