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The Chitose Airport Excursion
(Feb 24 '08)
On Saturday there was a blizzard. I took this opportunity to go for a leisurely drive with my summer tires. It was the most fun ever. There were very few cars on the road, due to the treacherous ...
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Tomakomai "The City Between The Mountains".
(May 01 '06)
"Tomakomai is a very nice city between Noboribetsu (famous for natural hot-springs) and Sapporo (largest city in Hokkaido)."
Chugging... along
(May 22 '08)
Just a quick update. There's not a whole lot of exciting stuff going on right now. The weather is getting better and things are starting to turn green. This time last week I was compiling a list of ...
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Pajmin's first accident
(Mar 06 '08)
"By the way, Pajmin is what I have just this moment decided to nickname my pajero mini..."
I finally had an accident on these terrible winter roads! I was on my way from one conversation school branch ...
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I have been told 3 huge lies about Hokkaido, and particularly Hokkaido winters, for the past year and a half. #1 Houses are well insulated. #2 They have central heating. ...
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Settling In in Keihokucho
(Feb 01 '08)
Today is my first official day of paid work in 4 months! I have 4 classes this evening about which I am actually a bit nervous. So far, though, the kids seem to be of superior intelligence to the ones ...
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Golden Week Gorging
(May 06 '08)
This year I actually got a whole 8 days off for Golden Week (as opposed to the 3 I got with Unitard last year). But, short on funds, inspiration, or friends with the same amount of free time, I ...
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When I arrived home from my hike Thursday afternoon, I found an unwanted souvenir inbedded in the soft skin of my stomach, a tick. I vaguely remembered ...
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February Summary
(Mar 07 '08)
Well, I have now been teaching for about 5 weeks. I have settled back into the old grove quite nicely and it is back to the Groundhog Day syndrome and weeks flying by. At the conversation school ...
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Here comes the neighbourhood
(May 21 '08)
My biggest problems these days has been my neigbours (again) so I thought I'd just write a little blurb here about what's been going on.
My building is the center of Japanese trash in Tomakomai. ...
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Recent Blogs for Chitose
"Pilot"
(Sep '07)
A few weeks ago I stepped onto a plane and roughly twenty hours later I was in another country in an alien culture, understanding roughly less then one percent of all written and spoken launguage- in ...
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A little time yet....
(Aug 28 '08)
Hey Everybody,
I wanted to post a quick update before I actually begin the travel journal- These first few days have been very hectic and internet access has remained fairly illusive so I cannot ...
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