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Does that sound right: There’re edition

No doubt there is a lot of bad English to be found in Japan. Even in Tokyo, where one would thing it would be easy to find a native English speaker, there are plenty of egregious “What the eff is that sign trying to say” signs and pamphlets. But even sneakier are the little weird [...]

School Lunch: Week of April 17

Continuing my kyuushoku (school lunch) series.

Monday, April 13
Some kind of fish
5-types salad with a bunch of stringy veggies
Soup with Tofu and cabbage (Dosanko)
Rice
Milk with a Kobaton having a picnic
Rice crackers from one of my teachers
This is one of those Japanese-style meal where I don’t know half of what I’m eating. I’m really not a fan [...]

A Day in the Life of an ALT

One thing that’s frustrating about being a new ALT is no one seems to tell you what you’re going to be doing once you reach Japan. I used to think this was a JET thing, but talking to ALTs in other companies, it seems to be and anywhere thing. It is ESID and all that, [...]

School Lunch: Week of April 10

The new school year started last week, along with a new round of school lunches (kyuushoku). School lunch here in Japan is pretty nuts, you never seem to get the same lunch twice. and it’s full of veggies that you’ve never even heard of. For the most part I find them to be pretty delicious, [...]