Two more days of school left before I hop on planes and boats through Hawaii, China, and back to Japan. If anyone is going to be on the big island of Hawaii from the 22nd to the 28th, Shanghai from the 29th to the 2nd, or Osaka, Kumamoto or Tokyo from the 4th to the [...]

For a while now, I’ve been participating in a play called “Alice in Japan” (highly modified version of Alice in Wonderland).  It’s put on by the ALTs of Niigata Prefecture to raise money for charity.  In the spring, we will travel to Papua New Guinea and build a school with the proceeds made from the [...]

I’ve been putting some cool little places around the Murakami area on a personal Google map. It’s kind of a fun way to get to know the area a little bit. I know that when I found out I would be coming to Murakami, I studied it on Google maps but really was not at [...]