a merkypie in jpan

Garbage. You hear that word and you don’t think much of it… … until you come to Japan. Then you are reminded of the frustration that is separating garbage into ‘categories’ such as burnables, pet bottles, paper, plastic, aluminium cans, etc, etc, etc. In America, we simply throw everything into one trash can. Recycling is […]

It’s a loaner but it’s still a car. Holy fuckballs there’s a world outside my apartment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I drove that 200 year old metal clunker up and down the Ishikawa coast. Took that no. 8 up to Kanazawa and all the way back down to Kaga. Up into them mountains and to the coast line. […]

I don’t have a car. Well, let me rephrase it. I do have a car. It’s not physically in my parking spot yet. For some unexplanable Japanese due process of inane ridiculous complicatedness reasons, I do not have a car I can drive. I purchased this car last week. Actually, this day. Four score. Last […]

So, I’ve officially been in Japan for one week and three days. It’s been a whirlwind of an adventure, from taking an exhausting 14+ hour flight from Miami to Narita to being whisked away in the chaos that is Tokyo to finally being dropped like a UNICEF rations package into the inaka that is Ishikawa. […]

Yep. This is gonna be the last post from America. My next entry will be from Japan! ~Reflection timez~ This has been one crazy ride. I look back on the old entries when I was applying and think, ” Wow, this is crazy “. I don’t think I imagined the JET Program application process to […]