Noheji was all over the national news today as a student in one of my second year classes was almost kidnapped! Some dude drove up along side her in his car and grabbed her right off the street. Apparently some passerby noticed and yelled out, so the ki… more »

One of my students at Yokohama Town drew this awesome picture on the top of her work sheet today. As you can tell from the roll of toilet paper, I made sure to teach the kids what to do if they don't get good candy while trick or treating. Plus.. che… more »

New photos uploaded to the photo gallery today. Check it out! more »

I have only had popcorn once since coming to Japan, and that was at a movie theatre in Sendai City. I didn't actually see a movie, just bought the popcorn and left. The nice thing about movie popcorn in Japan is that it is actually quite reasonably pric… more »

Hugh has posted new pictures from Akiko's big Taco party last weekend. We always knew Akiko was too good for Luke, but we had no idea how true that was until we saw the mansion she lives in. It's kind of romantic really.. She is like the prince and Luke… more »

Across the street from my Noheji apartment is a new building that is being constructed by a company called 'Canadian Homes'. I thought that was quite remarkable until I noticed that all over Aomori new homes are being built by seemingly Canadian compani… more »

Uploaded a few more pictures today.. mostly just random shots of Noheji Senior High School. If you're curious about where I work then check it out. The files are much smaller this time, so they won't take all day to download. Check it out yo. New: Th… more »

I just bought myself a fancy new video camera (a panasonic gs-100K 3CC digicam to be exact) and have been trying to figure out all the buttons and features. Since the manual, menus and button lables are all in Japanese this is going to take a while. I h… more »

Hugh has posted a ton of pictures from our big trip to Sendai last week, with his usual witty comments bellow each pic. Check em out here: http://members.fortunecity.com/tamenobu/ more »

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! Above is a picture of the elusive tanuki, or raccoon-dog that lives all over Japan. Unlike raccoons and dogs that are quite plentiful back home, the tanuki is quite hard to find it would seem. This weekend Hugh and I to… more »

Right now it's five to noon and I'm all alone in the staff room at Rokasho High School. I finished all my classes for today and have to wait out the next 3 or 4 hours. I say 3 or 4 because I have no idea when my quiting time is. I tried to find out by a… more »

Still not too much going on. I spent the weekend in Hirosaki again at Hugh's place where I spent many hours playing xbox and watching horror movies. Saturday we went shopping to this store that sells some foreign foods and I grabbed some maple sirup and… more »

Hi everyone. I really don't know what to talk about today. I don't know how Jenny is able to update her journal multiple times every day. I just can't think of anything interesting enough to talk about. Maybe life is just more exciting in Hirosaki. My w… more »