Funny stories and observations from my time living and teaching English in a small town in Fukuoka, Japan and an even smaller town in Southern France.
Life isn’t all bad, all of the time. As a counter to a previous entry about life in Japan, I’m reposting another scene from my time living in Fukuoka. This time, it’s a throwback from my old blog and a good reminder to me about people just being people –…
This happened to me when I was an English teacher in a small town in Japan. Iizuka, Japan ~ 2008 We had a three day weekend with Monday off and on that Monday I decided to take advantage of the nice weather and go for a bike ride. I was…
This fall Brian and I are planning a trip to France to scope out places to live. When I lived in Montpellier about a decade ago, I promised that one day I would move back. Luckily, Brian was on board with the plan. Over the years we’ve visited some potential…
I posted a while back about that time I climbed Mount Fuji and just now came across an original post from my old blog years ago, right after I’d done it. It’s interesting to see how the rose colored glasses changed things over time. Here’s the original: Mount Fuji Originally…
A few weeks ago I showed you my apartment in Iizuka, where I worked as an English ALT with the JET Programme. But before I moved to Iizuka, I actually lived in another even smaller town in Japan called Chikuzen-machi and worked as an English teacher with a different company,…
In case you were wondering what housing in Japan looks like, here’s a glimpse into where I lived in Iizuka, a city in the Fukuoka prefecture, on Kyushu, the southern island. It’s called a jutaku, and it’s an apartment block that is dedicated to housing teachers and usually has a…
Sometimes I like to re-share posts from the blog I kept when I was living in Japan. In this one I’m rambling on about going to Korea with my sister and complaining about my work as an English teacher. I guess there’s nothing that great or interesting here, just that…
Quick, name that singer!! You know you’ve reached a certain age if you read the title and immediately started singing it. This post isn’t about that song, however. It’s a throwback from my time living and teaching in France and is actually about kissing. Kiss Me Once, Kiss Me Twice, Kiss Me Deadly…
Thanksgiving is here! I thought it would be fun to share a post from my old blog about the first Thanksgiving I had in Japan. It was one of two non-traditional Thanksgivings I’ve spent in my life. I can’t remember what the first one was, although I mention it in…
I found the old blog I kept while I was living in Japan and I want to share some posts with you! This was one of the first ones I wrote after moving from Los Angeles to Chikuzen-machi, a tiny town in the Fukuoka prefecture on the island of Kyushu.…
