You can’t really get much of a cooler flight than today’s, holiday resort to business center to Asian metropolis. The last few days in Hawaii have been absolutely fantastic. I had expected to work a lot of the time, but with such a great group of people I ended up having so much fun I…

Yeah, I did write the title correctly, thanks to the wonder of crossing the dateline I had two March 16ths this year. If I was Irish and planned it a day later I could have had two St Patrick’s Days! I’m actually over here for a friends wedding, but I also have quite a bit…

Yesterday all the hotels on the island were full ( it’s a small island!). So I was put up in a ryokan, which was nice and clean but I was feeling the culture shock. Most notably being freezing cold after stepping out of the shower ( no heating!), and the harshness of the fluorescent lights…

After the past few months of doing computer work it was back to the fun part of Genki English, actually using it in classes! Today, instead of a simple kids show, I had three demo lessons. Each one would have two grades and I’d try and do as much as possible in the time, so…

After I did Akita last year, I thought that having been to every prefecture in Japan would mean that from now on things would get a bit boring. I’d never again fly to a new airport, and my useless knowledge of where to find the nearest Starbucks in nearly every station in Japan would increase…