Things have been fairly hectic the past week or so. I`ve been engaged in visa, flight and insurance enquiries, numerous talks with Jyoki-san and Kataoka-san, and email-phone call tennis matches with the GAP coordinators, all over the issue of my staying out here longer. I can happy write however, that I`ve nearly sorted everything out. [...]

Filed under: English, Japan, Livejournal (old), Outdoors on January 28th, 2005 | 7 Comments »

Well well, fellow droogies, things have been a malenky bit horrorshow lately.
Those of you who understand what I mean have likely read `A Clockwork Orange` by Anthony Burgess (if not, I recommend it). Those of you who know me would probably now wonder why I was using the `nadsat` speak used in the book [...]

Filed under: English, Japan, Livejournal (old) on January 16th, 2005 | 3 Comments »

It has been snowing on and off here at Shiso effectively since my last post. We didn`t see a White Christmas, but it`s more than been made up for in the weeks since. On New Year`s Eve, the four of us went to Bokusho-san`s Temple (where our local Tea Ceremony takes place) for a Buddhist [...]

Filed under: English, Japan, Livejournal (old) on January 12th, 2005 | No Comments »