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Metabolic Syndrome1 comment

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: The fire alarm goes off at lunchtime and the students don’t react. The Sensei stand in the hal … more →

Tags: Metabolic syndrome, third year students

Stations of Rehabilitation1 comment

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: “This time is crucial,” the Sensei tell me when I hobble into school on Wednesday. … more →

Tags: Acupuncture, Hana, The Sensei, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Doctor, back pain

Upcoming attractions5 comments

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: We’re slowly transitioning from bright, sunny, happy days where I ride my bike joyfully to sch … more →

Tags: K-town's High School, Seasons, routines, essence, Superhero class, Sports Day, summer, third year students, Moving

Ms. Delicious says be good2 comments

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: I’d say around half the time I go to the Massage Parlor (aka therapy for the elderly) they giv … more →

Tags: I'm a Sensei!, Ms. Delicious, first year students, massage place

Packing up, shipping out

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: Auntie and Linds are home, we assume, because we’ve been getting emails from them that say: Yo … more →

Tags: summer, Linds, Auntie, Moving, washing machine

The week, it was Golden: part 21 comment

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: We’ve heard zipola from Auntie and Linds in Hiroshima except a hastily written and completely … more →

Tags: Hot springs and green tea, purikura, The Big City, Travel, Linds, Auntie, Golden Week, Trains, Moving

The week, it was Golden: part 11 comment

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: Nice to see you again. I am back at work after a very rambunctious ten-day holiday in which I not on … more →

Tags: Hot springs and green tea, Japanese, Travel, first year students, Linds, Auntie, Okayama, Golden Week

Wasabi Dreams1 comment

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: The first rule of writing: no dreams. It’s pretty creepy, first of all, to read about an 80-ye … more →

Tags: Ryosuke, Dreams, Wasabi, Natural English, Alice in Wonderland, second year students

Chinese dust

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: It’s a handy thing–having another country directly at fault for whatever goes wrong in m … more →

Tags: Seasons, routines, essence, winter, T-Rex Sensei, third year students, China

Throw that feast...throw it good

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: For about a year and a half now, Johnathan and I have lived in a state of perpetual fear that the ga … more →

Tags: Acupuncture, T-Rex Sensei, Graduation, apartment, massage, gas stove

3-2-1 Shock!

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: If I’d know that all it took to make friends with Japanese people was frequenting the local os … more →

Tags: Acupuncture, massage, Hajime

It's so bad, the hair

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: My hair and I are, it seems, in a constant state of disagreement over what one, in their early twent … more →

Tags: Cleaning Time, Sumo, third year students, rika, Yasu, Haircuts, cleaning time boys, curls

Seasons: winter

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: We live in a refrigerator. Frozen meat on the counter takes days to defrost. The batteries in our ho … more →

Tags: Hot springs and green tea, Seasons, routines, essence, winter, Strawberry Princess, High School Hero, Sado Sensei, SADO, Clubs, Acupuncture

Pink leather massage

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: Hajime, the masseuse, graduated from K-Town’s high school so-and-so many years ago. He was an … more →

Tags: Acupuncture, health

SUPER bargain flea market 2008

peaquah wrote 1 year ago: I bought myself a duck hunter jacket. It is green plaid and tiny-sized and was originally going for … more →

Tags: thrift shopping, old people

Defining daily life

peaquah wrote 2 years ago: There are dozens of metaphors one can use about living in another country and trying to figure out h … more →

Year of the Mouse1 comment

peaquah wrote 2 years ago: The cat and the rat were the worst swimmers in the animal kingdom. Although bad swimmers, they were … more →

Tags: O-sensei, Year of the Mouse

Yakuza funeral3 comments

peaquah wrote 2 years ago: I’m not sure how to casually introduce the idea that there’s a gangster funeral across t … more →

Tags: yakuza, Gonzo Sensei

Hiatus and Haiku

peaquah wrote 2 years ago: Well, I’m back from my hiatus of persimmon-picking and sumo-watching and visiting florescent S … more →

Tags: K-town's High School, Seasons, routines, essence, O-sensei, Seoul, Christmas, Fall


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