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Drinking and hiking
The night before embarking on an outdoor adventure can be stressful. You want to make sure everything is packed. You worry about your physical fitness. You want to get enough sleep. My advice: get wasted. Who knows, maybe you’re not coming back? Of course it’s dumb. You get dehydrated. You’re hungover. It makes the first…
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Baseball and pretty explosions in the sky
Choosing a Japanese baseball team to support has proven problematic. I have narrowed the list down to three choices: 1) The Tokyo Swallows 2) The Tokyo Giants 3) The Hiroshima Carp The Carp made the list for a pragmatic/delusional reason. They are Lisa’s dad’s favorite team. It might give us something to talk about. The…
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Health insured
Today I signed up for health insurance. At least, I think I did. When Lisa comes home from work tonight she will have to verify. She let me off my leash today, and these are the sorts of things that happen. Japan is known to have the best healthcare system in the world. It is…
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Yep, still in Tokyo
I started teaching English here in Tokyo and in today’s lesson my student had to explain to me different Japanese customs that foreigners might not be aware of. Also, last Sunday Lisa and I went hiking at Mount Takao. So both of these subjects are being juxtaposed into one blog posting. First of all, I’m…
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Bricks walking
Today marks our fourth week here in Tokyo. So far I have completed three phases of acclimation and am entering the fourth. There are probably three more, one of which I am hoping is the “sing karaoke every night like you are a member of AKB48” phase. The first phase was complete shock. I sat…
a Nick in Time 