Snow has arrived in my corner of Japan. Real snow. Not those ice pellets or slush that tries to masquerade itself as snow (“We’re real snow!” they yell as slam into my car on the way to work). It’s sort of bizarre how this snow thing works in my area. For starters, I live in the 雪国, […]

Needless to say I haven’t talked much about my job. Mainly because I’m under a gag order and can’t really talk much about it unless I wanna get into some trouble with some PTA or something. The less attention I bring to myself, the better. But everyone wants to know how my teaching gig is… […]

I suck at doing this Japan blog stuff. But I’ve recently got a crapton (and when i mean crapton i mean like three) new followers to my blog 😀 So hi guys. It’s December, more specifically December 6th. Yesterday was December 5th, that marks now four months living in this country as a teacher  of […]

I have to admit, I’ve been failing with the blog updates. But there’s nothing much to blog about when everyday consists of (barely) waking up in the morning, (barely) driving to work, (barely) staying awake throughout the day, and (barely) driving back home. Though, I came to realize that I’ve fallen victim to the conbini. […]

If there’s one thing, other than all the other weird shit Japan is usually notoriously famous for, that Japan gets a lot of ooos and ahhhs from the western otaku community, it would have to be the weird food and drinks. We have drinks like Calpis, tend to be pronounced as cow-piss, weird candies like Kamen Rider […]