Weekly Re-Cap

It’s Saturday morning, and I’m taking it slow and easy. It’s been a full week, and it seems I’ve not spent a lot of time at home. Or when I was home I was studying. So today I’m staying in. All day. It’ll be nice to relax, but...

Weekly Re-Cap

Here’s some stuff going through my head tonight, and in my life this week, in no particular order: 1. Now that I’ve been learning Kanji for a few weeks now, I find myself recognizing — and actually knowing the meaning of — kanji I see in the...

Yellow moon, blue traffic light

Check out this post: Yellow moon, blue traffic light, from Linguarum’s Weblog, on the different ways Japanese and Westerners express things, and how culture affects even the way we perceive the world around us. Basically the writer’s idea is that Asians,...

Innovation in the Arts

Good word on the arts and mission and what they have to do with each other: Innovation in Mission: Innovation in the Arts.

Weekly Re-Cap

Golden Week was this past week here in Japan. It’s a cluster of holidays that all happen within the same week. This year, one of the holidays was last Tuesday, two were this week (Monday and Tuesday), and one landed on Saturday (boo). If people are going to use...