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Tag: Education

Chapter Thirteen: Speech Contest

September 16, 2018April 11, 2019 theunfoldingfan

What is there to fight for? Everything! Life itself, isn’t that enough? To be lived, suffered, enjoyed!

Tagged ALT, Assistant Language Teaching, Cultural differences, Education, English Speech Contest, Japan, Junior High School, Schools, Teaching, Travel

Chapter Twelve: Time Slip

June 4, 2018April 11, 2019 theunfoldingfan

Received wisdom about bear encounters conflictingly suggests running, standing one’s ground, or playing dead; a selection that seems fatally incompatible.

Tagged ALT, Cultural differences, dam, Education, Festival, Fukushima, Japan, Kitakata, mountains, ramen, Retro, Travel

Chapter Eight: Elementary

February 6, 2018April 11, 2019 theunfoldingfan

One day Nakano-sensei asked which of the elementary schools is my favourite, and it’s possible that I answered a little too quickly with “Matsuyama.”

Tagged ALT, Education, Elementary school, Fukushima, Japan, Kitakata, Schools, Travel

Chapter Seven: Nichuu

January 6, 2018April 11, 2019 theunfoldingfan

‘Language barrier’ is a phrase well-worn to the point of being threadbare, but it is not until one has experienced the communicative rampart that the barrier in question seems less like a linguistic picket fence and more of a socially impenetrable stone barrack.

Tagged ALT, Education, Fukushima, Japan, Junior High School, Kitakata, Schools, Travel

Chapter Six: An Education

December 6, 2017April 11, 2019 theunfoldingfan

As an occupation, teaching can take you to soaring heights of euphoria and hell-belly lows of stress and frustration.

Tagged ALT, Cultural differences, Education, Fukushima, Japan, Kitakata, Schools, Travel

Previous Chapters

  • Chapter Twenty-Two: The Mountain of Disappointment
  • Chapter Twenty-One: The Lakes
  • Chapter Twenty: A Ride with the Kitakata Crew
  • Chapter Nineteen: Ōgawara and Sendai Tanabata Festival
  • Chapter Eighteen: Lakes and Mountains
  • Chapter Seventeen: Highway to Hell
  • Chapter Sixteen: Summer Festival Part Two
  • Chapter Fifteen: Summer Festival Part One
  • Chapter Fourteen: Totoro Woods, Monkeys and Death Roads
  • Chapter Thirteen: Speech Contest
  • Chapter Twelve: Time Slip
  • Chapter Eleven: Kitakata
  • Chapter Ten: Jennie Wren’s Nest  
  • Chapter Nine: Gut Reaction
  • Chapter Eight: Elementary
  • Chapter Seven: Nichuu
  • Chapter Six: An Education
  • Chapter Five: Baptism by Napalm
  • Chapter Four: Boot Camp
  • Chapter Three: Adrift in Cape Cong
  • Chapter Two: Sky Road
  • Chapter One: Sealy-whut?

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Chapter Twenty-Two: The Mountain of Disappointment
Chapter Twenty now available: A Ride with the Kitakata Crew
Chapter Nineteen now available: Ōgawara and Sendai Tanabata Festival
I spoke about my travel experiences at the London Sunday Assembly. Was great fun! I'm 38 mins in, following a couple of other amazing and inspirational speakers.
My sister gave me a kit to make an "origami" bag - I'm very happy with the result!
Chapter Seventeen: Highway to Hell now available.
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