Tokyo Drum Machine
Click here to check out a fun little flash animation. Starts out a little slow (especially if you have a "semi high speed" connection like I do) but it's pretty cool once it gets going.
Weekly Re-Cap
It's been a pretty good week. Regarding my TESL studies, it hasn't been as productive as I'd have liked, but I'm hoping to make up for that today by finishing this big assignment I've been slowly working through and thus wrapping up module 3. On the support raising...
Support Update
Approximate Amount Remaining: $9,445 -- that's only about 39 people at $20 per month! Please pray with me for the rest of the faith promises to come in quickly. If you can help out financially as well, check out the Support Info page and sign up. Thank you!
Language Acquisition
The following article is from a paper I wrote for my Teaching English as a Second Language course. It's based on the interview I did a while back, which I also used for my podcast. The focus of the paper is, of course, on language learning. Haruka Kudo comes from...
Weekly Re-Cap
Another week has come and gone (more or less) and here we are again, wrapping things up with the Weekly Re-Cap. I don't have too much to report this week (of course, I've said that before and written several paragraphs, so maybe I should just scratch that). Support...
Anime and Japanese Culture
I saw a short documentary recently on the history of anime (Japanese animation). Some may think that cartoons are not a real view into the culture of a country. But I think that pop culture as a much a part of culture as more traditional forms of art. They give us a...
Weekly Re-Cap
This was a pretty quiet week, so I don't have much to re-cap, but I thought I should at least "check in". Support levels haven't moved much this week, but I do have some "maybes" and even some "yeses" that I'm still waiting on official commitments from. I have a...
Weekly Re-Cap
Methinks this'll be a short post, as I can't think of too many things to share. But here goes. This week: (1) Support increased pretty drastically, though this is due in part to re-calculating the value of my Canadian Faith Promises. There were, however, some really...
Weekly Re-Cap
Here's a random re-cap of the past week, and a look at the weekend to come: 1. This week I've gotten most of Module 1 of my TESL course finished. I have one more assignment left, which I hope to get done today. 2. One of the assignments was to interview a non-native...
Quotes
A missionary friend included these quotes in her email this week. I thought they were worth remembering -- and sharing here as well. "When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I...