6:50 AM and my alarm goes off. I'm not outdoors in my sleeping bag meaning I am not okay being woken up this early. Snooze for the next half hour. Roll out of bed. Put on shirt. Put on pants. Brush teeth. No breakfast. Out the door in ten minutes. Regretting this already. Apparently it's
Photo Gallery: Kyushoku, School Lunch In Japan (給食)
Japan has granted me the opportunity to experience school lunch in a third country, on a third continent (depending on how you classify The Americas, that is). Weekdays in Japan I eat lunch at one of two junior high schools - the Japanese know this lunch as kyushoku (給食). I eat alongside
What The Hell Is Fukui?
Fukui, one of Japan's 47 prefectures, is located on the island of Honshū in Japan's Chūbu region along the country's western coast. Fukui is seventy minutes north of Kyoto and three and a half hours west of Tokyo via train. Fukui is my soon-to-be base of operations. But what do we know
I’m Moving To Japan
It was bound to happen eventually - I finally got myself a temporary, permanent address (or at least I expect to have one soon). Yes, unfortunately, my trove of pilfered troll gold has run dry and I am now forced back into a state of servitude - exchanging hours of my life for rectangular pieces