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Good luck on your exam Jeffyboy! I:m sending you whatever the Japanese version of Mazal is.

i bought these things in fun cat packages in Fukuoka and mailed them to some people at home. i didn’t keep one for myself, so i was really happy when lindsay sent me a picture of what was inside. cool! update: she also sent me some links to sites about the nameneko cats (one, two). […]

We’ve been teaching at a school called Seido. Jr. High every week, and the little kids every now and then. Monday was our last time going there. It was sad, but fun too. We (the interns) do a skit called “soup” that dates back to my camp days. We did the skit for them, and […]

yesterday was the last day on my rail pass. today is the first on my new one! depart for Fukuoka this evening, and tomorrow at 6AM it’s onwards to tokyo and the christine that awaits us! when we went to get tickets yesterday. to get from hakata to tokyo, you take two trains: one from […]

Last weekend I was in Sanda visiting the Hori family. It had been almost 2 years since I saw them last. The girls have grown so much and it was amazing to get to play with them. I arrived at shin-kobe late Wednesday night to be greeted by Masao. We got home to Mika and […]

we got a lot to catch up on. on the 11th i spent the day with Rie and her lovely family. They brough me to Fukuoka for the day. we did a lot of siteseeing, and a little bit of shopping. We saw the Yahoo! Dome, and ate lunch at Hard Rock Cafe. It was […]

The number of women in Canadian engineering schools dropped by 20 per cent between 1999 and 2004, according to the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers. The most dramatic drop was in first-year enrolment, the society said. The decline followed a decade in which a record number of Canadian women broke into the male-dominated world of […]

on saturday my host mom kumiko dressed me in a kimono. it took a long time and there were lots of layers and things to tie. then she and akira took me outside and we took lots of pictures. it was fun. but i don’t like most of them, and only posted a few. enjoy. […]

yes, i’m off to visit the old host family tomorrow (tonight, i guess)! i can’t wait to see them all – especially the little girls. i’ll be back sunday night.

I’ve had at least 3 people email to rub in Toronto’s fantastic weather. Don’t get so smug. Last week it was over 20 here and we were running around in T-shirts. So, yeah!