While I didn’t think it could be possible, this year’s Thanksgiving dinner was even more pathetic than last years. Last year, Stephanie, Kimi and I wandered around in Ikebukero trying to find ingredients to make some sort of a Thanksgiving meal before giving up and eating at KFC, chicken being the closest thing we could […]
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The end of my college career will be coinciding closely with Thanksgiving this year, reminding me of how thankful I will be to finally be done. As I finish up, I find this story very amusing.
Marching the Last Mile
19Nov07I’ve got a little more than a week o2-f regular class before I’m finished with university. In that intervening week I have nearly 40 pages of essays, research papers and reactions to write.
Here’s the list:
5 Pages on the McDonald’s Business Model for History of American Business
10 Pages on Women in Athens and Sparta for Gender […]
Pet Peeve: Listening to my Japanese classmates give presentations. In 4 of my 7 classes I have to listen to my fellow students give presentations. This is mind numbingly boring under the best of circumstances but the irritation is exacerbated when most of the people giving the presentations are non-native English speakers. Without variation they […]
A Comrade for a Friend
26Aug07Our family will be hosting a Japanese exchange student from Bunka Women’s University this September. Bunka Women’s University is very close to where I am currently living so when we received an email from Megumi, I replied and arranged a meeting with her here in Japan before she goes to visit the rest of the […]
Full Belly
25Aug07Today, our landlady treated Justin and I to all-you-can-eat Shabu Shabu. Intent on getting our money’s worth we consumed seemingly endless trays of beef and pork, plates of vegetables and glasses of Calpis. As always the food was delicious. Justin’s post on the subject has pictures.
After lunch we waddled our bloated stomachs over to the […]
Independence Day
05Jul07Today has been yet another day overwhelmed with busyness. I spent all of last night and the early hours of this morning guarding the fireworks stand, a necessary chore considering that one of the other stands on the same street was robbed last night. I stayed up til almost 2 o’clock play Clue* and then […]
Turkey
03Jul07After a long day at work I came home to find that Mom had made a big turkey dinner. It was delicious. After eating and washing a mountain of dishes my siblings and I headed up to the pool for a refreshing swim. Despite our large dinner, an hour of swimming left us famished and […]
Busy, busy, frightfully busy…
01Jun07I haven’t gotten back into the blogging spirit as quickly as I had hoped but I have a good excuse. I’ve been working a ton.
By a ton I mean 9+ hrs a day for the last couple weeks. Also, I have been swimming daily. In amongst this I’ve also been managing to spend a fair bit […]
