by Whitey | Jul 3, 2008 | Thoughts
This is the first in a 3-part (for now) series on, as you’ve no doubt guessed from the title, culture shock. It’s taken from some assignments I did for HQ a while back as part of the internship program I’m in. Here in part one, I’ll give an...
by Whitey | May 29, 2008 | Thoughts
I didn’t begin pursuing a life of ministry in Japan because I thought I would fit in here. I fell in love with Japan because of having lived here. I also didn’t have a great sense that my personality or talents would lend themselves to ministry in Japan specifically....
by Whitey | Feb 13, 2008 | Thoughts
Today’s post is another paper from the correspondence TESL course I was taking back in the Fall. This assignment was on the question of whether or not grammar should be taught explicitly in the ESL classroom. Any thoughts? Feel free to comment, especially if...
by Whitey | Feb 6, 2008 | Thoughts
This week and next I’m continuing my series of writings on Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), using more material taken from assignments I did for my TESL course. Today’s post was written back in mid-December, and is about teacher vs. student...
by Whitey | Dec 23, 2007 | Thoughts
Check out this short article about a non-Japanese person who’s become a part of a very-Japanese part of society: Japan Today – News – Japans first ever foreign geisha debuts The interesting thing to me is that it says she’s spent half of her...
by Whitey | Dec 12, 2007 | Thoughts
With my move to Japan less than 3 weeks away (eek!) I’ve got lots of little things to do, as well as some not-so-little things. The visa application is out of my hands, the plane ticket is booked for the 28th, and just yesterday I shipped two boxes of stuff to...
