Over the last three weeks or so I’ve been gathering videos of the christmas lights around my apartment here in Toyohashi. I even went out in the icy winds late one night when there was a full moon, despite the obvious werewolf risk. That is how dedicated I was to getting these videos. On Christmas Day we went into Nagoya for what I guess is the best approximation to a Christmas dinner you’ll find in Japan, and I took a single video of the lights there (After dinner we were rushing for the train, barely made it, and a limited express at that). So, that completed my collection, after the link is a video showing what Christmas lights looked like around my apartment.
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Archive for December, 2007
As I think most of you know, my new job is predominantly teaching children. The company I works for thinks that children enjoy seeing their teachers wear funny outfits on holidays (something my experiences don’t agree with) so all four of us teachers had to wear a santa suit for the week leading up to Christmas in the Kids and J1 classes (We go up to J3).
Last week I played that game where you write the first sentence of a story on a piece of paper and pass it round the room folding the paper as you go so each person can only see the previous sentence with two high school students of mine. We made three stories, and I posted them all, but somehow the first two posts got eaten, so here’s the third (and in my opinion best) story of the three. Continue reading ‘Sentences of Madness’
So I moved into my new apartment in Toyohashi (across the street) more than a month ago, and I never got around to making a video. Until now.
Every Tuesday I go out to Toyota kindergarten to spend three hours in various classes with the kids, then teach an English class. Today Toyota kindergarten was having a mochi day, so we went out early to join in the… mochiness.
Today I got another haircut here in Toyohashi. I had been eyeing up a place called Love and Peace that I drive past on the way to the supermarket, it stood out because all the signs outside are entirely in English, no Japanese. It made me wonder if someone in there has at least a basic grasp of English. Unfortunately that place was closed today.
