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just a man making it through the slippage of days into each other in Japan
Trakl
posted on Dec 02, 2006
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Help me understand what happened in this fight between my wife and I over responsibility and priorities.... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 27, 2006
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. . . but doesn't listen.I probably shouldn't do this, but am going to. I'm going to describe one of my students. Maybe after you read this, you can better understand how frustrating it can be teaching ESL in Japan.
He's a 35i... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 26, 2006
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A little bit of the world as my son shows it to me.... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 24, 2006
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"There are so many people with cellphones with cameras on them that it's impossible that someone hasn't taken a picture of a bigfoot yet."christ on a crutch: have you seen the poor quality of those cellphone pics? hard enough to get that up... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 24, 2006
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Have begun to study for the GRE Subject Test in Literature. May be going back to the States in 2008 to begin my Ph.D. work.... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 24, 2006
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another fight with the misses. forgot to turn on the rice cooker. not as simple as that, she says. I don’t seem to care as much anymore.... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 13, 2006
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I'm sitting at work and there are no students, so I'm in the teachers' room working on some lesson materials for latter in the month. Because I can multi-task, I decide to eat a sandwhich while working. The manager, who is actually nice about it but no... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 11, 2006
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Today's schedule:11:40-19:00: Teach, repeat, repeat, and keep the temper in check.
19:20-20:30: Eat dinner with family and take bath.
21:00: Probably drink a beer, check the TV for a free movie, though recently they've all sucked... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 11, 2006
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My son and I were shopping in Hiroshima yesterday. Big shopping mall. Lots of customers. They're gearing up for the Christmas selling season, so they had all these displays out for toys, which, of course, my son was very interested in playing with. S... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 06, 2006
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Many Japanese women complain that men never help witht he housework. I propose the following reasons and advice:REASONS
1) Japanese mothers never teacht heir sons how to do housework. Instead of assigning a weekly or daily chore, teh... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 04, 2006
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Two members of the Choshu Five--the five Japanese who secretly left Japan to study in England--were members of the Sonno Joi Movement, "to revere the Emperor and expel the barbarians". Now this fitted pretty well with rumors I'd heard about... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 04, 2006
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Are there still any idiots out there who buy into the whole myth about the quiet, shy and, best of all, subservient Japanese girlfriend/wife? I know that when I began studying Japanese back in '96, most of the men in my class had that idea,... read entire post
Trakl
posted on Nov 02, 2006
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Today:--Stand in line for an hour at a pastry shop to get something special for breakfast (I don't know what, Kemiko hasn't told me; she'll take my place after an hour).
--Take the boy to the park and play like mad.
--Meet private stude... read entire post