Get ready, this is a good old fashioned "I went on a trip and now I'm writing a blog about it" kind of post. Last week my school was closed for a summer break, which coincides with the Obon holiday. Without going too into Obon history, it's basically a time when Japanese people return to …
久しぶり！(Long time no see!) I guess it's harder to come up with material to write about when you fall into a normal work routine! Originally this post was going to be about 森林浴, or forest bathing. But it sat in draft for way too long so I obviously wasn't motivated to write about it. Perhaps I …
Sitting at my desk in San Francisco a few years back I would have never imagined using kanji in a sentence. Over the last month I've dove head first into learning kanji. Many foreigners don't bother to learn it, you can technically learn to speak Japanese fluently without it, but I was becoming really frustrated …
tedious and brief 