Shinkansen
Today I packed up my things and took a ride on one of the fastest trains in the world. I am now close to the north coast of Honshu and it is blowysnow here. This was my whole day.in the...
Ichikawa
I took a genuine day off today. I actually had time to destress. I didn’t even bother with tourism. I didn’t have to. Although I do hope more time will come in my debrief week. I spent most of the...
Big Trees
Today was bit of a tourism day, I went to see the big ol sky tree. which was lovely, i didn’t go up it mind you, I didn’t need to (and the line was long) but it was really nice to see...
Day Ichi
I am very thankful to have this opportunity to be in Japan this term. The new semester has begun and this is quite unlike anything I have ever done before. I am quite stunned that I haven’t felt any fear...
Hard working Koreans
I don’t know if everybody in the world knows this, but Korea is full of very hard-working people. I guess it was inevitable since the great wars that it would be this way here. there are so many people in such a...
Ballywhat?
This was a repeated affairs day. I finished the Inventory of all of the books in the office, i made a fantastic spreadsheet listing authors, titles, price, descriptions and quantities of every book on the shelves. I didn’t have to...
Buy This Book!
I went through all of the books in the OMF NI office today and I took an inventory (of most of them). I could have been doing more data sheets but for the sake of variety of things to do I offered to take this up instead because...
Amen to Japan
This morning I went with Dorothy to Windsor Baptist Church in Belfast (it’s not near Windsor at all). they’re good with music, they’re bad with saying “Amen” and this annoys me. but the church is very good, they’re rich with...
Stroke City
Today we went to Londonderry/Derry (the one I put first is not a reflection on my political views).There was a breakfast for OMFers and people interested in mission in the far east. it was a good time there were some good talks...
Data Data
Obscure references are easy to do now, considering how big the world of blogs and podcasting has gotten. but the title refers to Adam and Joe’s impersonation of Cilla Black talking about Blind Date. because it sounds like a whole...