In the 3 years that I have spent in Japan, I have had all sorts of random people ringing on my doorbell: Jehovah’s Witnesses, Door-to-Door Salesmen, the old lady from the neighborhood association hitting me up for money, and today a first: a campaigning politician. I had just gotten home from school when I heard [...]

I don’t know why this is blog worthy, but I found out today that I have a student from China in one of my first grade junior high classes (the equivalent of 7th grade in the U.S.) It guess it’s cool just to have another foreigner at school in my not-so-ethnically diverse town and workplace.

I went to Danshui, Taiwan last Saturday with Sophia and her family. Danshui is a cute, touristy port town north of Taipei and the last stop on the MRT (Metro). Tons of people walking around, Now I'm back in Japan. Back to the daily grind of teaching English. I spent today teaching phonics and reviewing [...]