The R3dragon’s Blog

At some point if something becomes such an epidemic then at sometime it will affect your life in some way. Lately the scourge of Swine Flu or H1N1 “Aka 新型インフルエンザ　(shin-ga-ta-infuruenza) [lit. New Type of Influenza]” has hit Mutsu City in a very nasty way. Nearly a half or more of the schools here in Mutsu [...]

Japanese Disclaimer: 日本人は本当に住みませんでした。私の最初ブログから、このブログまでは英語だけを書いていました。しかし、もしかしたら、僕の「毎日話」日本語で読んでいたいなら新しい日本語ブログを書くかもしれません。 Ok.. Yesterday was quite an interesting day to say the least. It was a day where I shed the track suit in exchange for a black suit and tie…. This day came about because at one of schools I teach at the main English curriculum teacherdecided that because she’d had to attend [...]

I’m going to chalk it all up to a bizarre rampage of discovering who I am.. but today I made tortillas. This is after an attempt to make re-fried beans, chocolate chip cookies/scones, & strawberry short cake. I suppose it’s really due to me setting challenges and markers for myself then accomplishing them one by [...]

Today was the first of a two day celebration of Mutsu’s 50th anniversary. Apparently50 years ago the two towns of Ominato and Tanabu merged to form the great city of Mutsu. The celebration was held at the Mutsu dome… A big sports facility and fitness center. To help participate I helped the “foreigner’s Stand” by [...]

Tonight I had a bowl of beans and rice with some veggies on the side… The basics of basic human food substance. and it was good… ~J //

So yesterday I decided to drop into a grocery store I’ve been meaning to go to in a while called “Satou.” It’s a very small local grocery store here that sits next to a giant big new Maeda (The Safeway of Shimokita). I’m not sure how Satou’s does business but just outside it is an [...]

Today I thought of posting a ‘life in Japan’ type post. Washing clothes– whether you’re doing it in a hi-tech washing machine or beating them over a washboard– It isn’t all that fun of a thing to do. In Japan, the process is different for everybody, but it feels a lot like how you would [...]

Hey all, I forgot to say that I’ve given up the old blue RAV4 for something else. The story goes…. When I left the RAV4 at autobacs everything seemed in order. They even gave me a loaner car so I didn’t have to catch the bus. However, while up enjoying Sapporo I was told that [...]

Folks I’m exhausted. Working as an Elementary school teacher is kicking my butt. The kids are between 6 years old and 11 years old and are little nuclear power plants of energy. When I go to hang out with them at recess they wear me down to bits. I’m just not used to it is [...]