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I get the feeling that my blog is getting a bit boring this time around. Unlike my other international adventures, this one has centered mostly around bureaucracy and learning to operate in a different system. Today’s entry will be no Continue reading The data have arrived!
Today was a big day. An early start at the ministry led to panicked moments of believing that after all that we’ve been through the past two years, this project would come to an end before it had ever began. Continue reading Making progress with bureaucratic processes
Sleepless night—tossing and turning and dreaming bizarre things. I’d like to blame it on the anti-malarials, but I know it was just nerves. The sound of what I can only imagine are giant frogs harmonized by the ever running toilet Continue reading Commence squatting!
Two years ago, on this very blog, I wrote about dogs in Rwanda. I try to write about them in every country I visit, but I’ve always found the Rwanda story harder to cope with than others. I love my Continue reading Dogs are making a comeback
Friends enjoying the bread my father made Things change in two years, and Rwanda certainly embodies that. It’s still my favorite African country so far, and I feel so relaxed I can hardly believe that tomorrow begins a day of Continue reading Rwanda two years later…
My friend (my former Japanese teacher) and I spent 2 days and 1 night in Hakone, a famous resort in Japan about an hour’s drive from where I used to live. The emperor’s former summer home (turned museum) is located Continue reading Hakone and some R&R
My time in Japan isn’t spent as a tourist– it’s more like a daughter who has come home from college for a break. Though I’m full, because I’ve been eating for days straight, and my friends acknowledge that I’ve told Continue reading Cooking and Eating– and REPEAT!
My posts are probably getting a little less interesting now. I find less and less new about Japan everyday. I do have to share that I learned a few important life/travel lessons this trip. First, you actually can eat sooo Continue reading Blueberry picking and family night
Over-ripe Goya at Kanagawa’s new garden J-mom looking at peppers in the garden I arrived in Japan with no incident. In fact, the trip to my J-mom’s house, about 3 hours from the airport, was so smooth it reminded me Continue reading “Home” again
Living wall inside the airport! I love this! I’m sitting in the Taipei International airport right now waiting for my plane to Japan. This is by far the nicest airport I’ve ever been in. Minus the small art exhibit of Continue reading Global Taipei- recapping the journey