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So, this is Christmas…in Japan pt.2
After my dismal defeat two years ago, last year I tried another strategy. If I couldn’t get them to change the playlist on the strength ....
22 Dec 1:48 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
So, this is Christmas…in Japan pt.1
I work at two Junior High Schools, alternating every two weeks. And since each school has 3 grades and ideally 1 Japanese English teacher pe....
21 Dec 7:36 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
￥15000 for Ice Cream
Saturday I was sitting with my student in the outdoor cafe of a Starbucks in Tokyo. It was a beautiful day…perhaps the last warm day of ....
20 Dec 5:20 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Fazing and Hazing in Yokohama: conclusion
Life here in Japan has slowly but surely re-wired my expectations of people, and in particular kids. So that now, what wouldn’t have even....
17 Dec 2:14 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Fazing and Hazing in Yokohama pt.3
From our first meeting on this had become our routine. I’d come to the class a little early and catch him rattling windows with his vocife....
15 Dec 11:40 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Fazing and Hazing in Yokohama pt.2
A little about Matsui-kun. I remember the first time I met him. I came to the class prepared to do my usual introduction lesson, where I tal....
15 Dec 9:50 am  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Fazing and Hazing in Yokohama pt.1
My eye caught the hand movement and spotted the projectile as soon as it left its source: Matsui-kun (not his real name). Takahashi-sensei....
14 Dec 4:22 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Proselytized by drive-by
Fade in: Sunny morning, Brownstone and tree-lined street in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn NY. On the corner, a group of 6, sharply dressed me....
10 Dec 5:18 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Mi kasa su kasa
As I laced up my boots preparing to leave my house, I realized that the noise that had awakened me an hour earlier than my alarm and the s....
8 Dec 2:16 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Put off thy shoes from off thy feet…pt. 2
My mother was into blingbling back in the 70s and 80s. Not flashy jewelry or Rolexes or Spinner rims and such. Nothing like that. But, she....
6 Dec 10:55 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Put off thy shoes from off thy feet…pt 1
For the third day in a role, I walked into the vestibule at the entrance of my school and let out an audible: “Shit!” Each of the three ....
3 Dec 6:25 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Making the grade in Yokohama
He boarded the train and scanned for a free seat, spotting only one, the one beside me. I was reading a book, conspicuously paying him no mi....
1 Dec 10:44 am  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Is Loco sensei a nee-gah, too?
There’s a cute little Haafu, all of 13 years old, among  my 1st year students, half-African-American, half-Japanese. She speaks both Eng....
29 Nov 1:30 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Happy Thanksgiving!
Enjoy yourselves, and enjoy your birds…and may the Creator’s blessings be upon you and yours this holiday season Know that I’ll be enj....
27 Nov 1:09 am  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Waikiki via Japan pt.4
Waikiki is really beautiful despite the efforts of commercialization! I could almost see what it used to be before it became what it is no....
23 Nov 9:05 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Waikiki via Japan pt.3
The thing is, since I’ve moved to Japan, in my heart and mind, America has become this oasis of tolerance in a desert of bias, a harbor o....
19 Nov 1:52 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
A strange thing happened on the way to Yokohama…
This morning I was on the train checking my emails when we pulled into the station. It was packed to the teeth and about to get more so judg....
19 Nov 11:51 am  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Waikiki via Japan pt.2
It’s my fault, though. I made a couple of glaring mistakes. The first: Whenever my Japanese friends have told me about their trips to Ha....
18 Nov 1:03 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Waikiki via Japan: pt.1
Me: Have you ever been to America? 1000 Japanese People I’ve spoken to over the past 6 years: No, I haven’t. But, I have been to Hawaii.....
17 Nov 7:23 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Convo this morning…
11/11/09 8:55am (Mostly in Japanese) Me: (huffing and puffing appropriately) I’m so sorry I’m late! Kumi: Are you ok? I was worried. Me:....
11 Nov 9:11 am  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Something Beautiful
I remember the first time I read Toni Morrison’s masterpiece, “Beloved.” (I say ‘first time’ because it took me three reads to f....
10 Nov 2:39 pm  from  Going loco in Yokohama   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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