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Three Days To Go

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:48:46 +0000

March 10th, 2008 Three Days To Go Yup, 72 hours from now I’ll be on a plane bound for the West. It’s funny that I have to travel east in order to get to “The West.” That’s just plain counter-intuitive! We’re down to a two-digit hour count now. Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock! Travel Research I started off this morning with a [...]

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Fukuyama Finale

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:23:29 +0000

March 8th, 2008 Fukuyama Finale Nothing special on the way there this morning, I took the usual route at the usual time, and had the usual breakfast on the way. First thing, I stopped in the Principal’s Office in the administration building and handed him his gift bag containing a “Home University” coffee mug and a brief [...]

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Interrogation Day

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:20:40 +0000

March 7th, 2008 Interrogation Day To begin with, I went to Fukuyama and did classes as usual. Today we did Family Trees. I guess the assumption is that when the kids stay with host families, they will understand who the father, mother and brothers and sisters are. They’ll also be able to talk about their own families [...]

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Talking Behind My Back Is A Good Thing?

admin — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:19:12 +0000

March 6th, 2008 Talking Behind My Back Is A Good Thing? Everything went smoothly with the trains today, unlike Tuesday. I got to Fukuyama on time and walked to the school as usual. I went inside and picked up my train tickets for the return trip and the trip back tomorrow morning. As I came out to [...]

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My Final “Normal” Hiroshima Day

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:17:57 +0000

March 5th, 2008 My Final “Normal” Hiroshima Day I did the usual trip to Hiroshima this morning. When I arrived at the kindergarten, they showed me a scrapbook with a note written by last year’s teacher to the “graduating” kindergarten class and they wanted me to write one as well. I wrote out a brief note which [...]

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Fukuyama High School, Day Two

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:16:57 +0000

March 4th, 2008 Fukuyama High School, Day Two OK, it finally happened. After all the train rides and trips Ive taken, I finally screwed up. I did the exact same thing as I did yesterday, and stood in the same line in the Okayama Station for the 9:11 train to Fukuyama. At 9:11, the train behind me [...]

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Something New Right At The End

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:03:50 +0000

March 3rd, 2008 New Class At The End Of My Stay. The alarm rang at 7:30 and I got ready to go. There’s no sneaking around hoping to get to the shower first now that Marc is gone. I usually got up long before he did and hit the shower first thing in the morning, but he [...]

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Don`t Feed The Animals

admin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:00:33 +0000

March 2nd, 2008 Don’t Feed The Animals I started out this morning doing the usual library routine. I stopped in at the McDonalds in the Tenmaya arcade as usual, and halfway through the meal I noticed a larg bug crawling across the floor. I’m pretty sure it was a cockroach. I saw several other people watching it [...]

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More Endings And A Departure

admin — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:12:04 +0000

February 29th, 2008 More Endings and a Departure I half expected the phone to ring this morning, whether it be Y-San, the Fukuyama Principal, the guy from the Company, or someone from home inquiring whether or not I’ve lost my mind. But it didn’t ring this morning, so I went on with the usual Friday routine for [...]

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Or Am I Just Digging A Deeper Hole?

admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:55:30 +0000

February 28th, 2008 Stranger and Stranger I got up a little early and updated my resume, writing a nice cover letter to the Elementary School principal. I stated my interest and mentioned Y-San and the Junior High Vice Principal as references. I then asked Y-San to fax it to the principal. I also sent a [...]

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