Sinking
I was watching the beginning of Battle Royal with a friend the other day, when an image of a school sink appeared on the screen. When i said....
3 Jul 6:54 am  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
He doesn't lose rain, doesn't lose wind…
Last week, I mentioned an assignment where students wrote about their future dreams. We continued the lesson with other classes this week an....
3 Jun 6:13 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Warm Fluids
On my desk at work, there were these green forms sitting in a brown envelope for the last few weeks. They were papers that were required for....
31 May 7:41 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
What goes up… well let's leave it up there for a while.
We’ve been doing a lot more writing in my classes this school year than we did previously. This means that I have a lot more marking to do....
20 May 6:15 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Words of Advice
We did an exercise in class a couple of weeks ago where students shared their words of wisdom. First the students would share a story that h....
18 May 10:30 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Tradition
A few weeks ago, our first year students at Iwaki High School were given the task of learning their school cheer. Along with the cheer there....
17 May 6:34 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
One can be a lonely number
Homogeneous is the word that comes to mind when it comes to discussing Japan’s population. 99% of the people living in Japan are of Japane....
16 May 6:53 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Baseball
Today was a holiday, so I had the day off. Many students and teachers from my school went to go watch our baseball team play near my apartme....
29 Apr 9:33 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Rainy Day Enkai
 I just got home from a teacher party tonight. It's also been raining quite a bit for the last couple of days. Here are some photos of....
28 Apr 11:37 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Hanami and the Misadventures Thereafter
Hanami is an event that signifies the beginning of many things here in Japan – for me, they became the beginning of my misadventures of th....
21 Apr 8:32 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Results Day
One teacher mentioned to me, upon seeing how excited these new students were, the irony of their enthusiasm: “if only they knew how hard t....
21 Mar 1:10 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Shokuinshitsu
“Shokuinshitsu” is what we call the teacher’s room in Japan. For some reason, this is a very difficult word for me to remember. It is ....
17 Mar 6:13 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Dinner Parties
In Japan, people don’t seem to go for social gatherings at a typical bar as they would at home. Instead, Izakayas, where everybody goes, p....
16 Mar 10:30 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Graduation Day
We had graduation day for the third year students at Iwaki Kouko earlier this week. The ceremony took place in the morning and all Iwaki stu....
6 Mar 3:19 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Doing what i do
Here are a few embarrassing photos of me that i had some of my teachers take of me during my Powerpoint presentation this week. I think my c....
12 Feb 11:53 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Well On
Everything went well today with my presentation. Teachers seemed impressed, and i had the attention of most of my students, which is a good ....
9 Feb 11:15 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
It all happens when it happens
I woke up several times last night in the midst of several dreams in which I found myself chasing something, or having left something behind....
8 Feb 11:35 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
Tokyo part III: Shibuya
I took Janice too work again yesterday to Iwaki Koko, my main school so that she could see my office and meet some of the teachers that I wo....
23 Dec 9:37 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
A Bit on Teaching
I’ve been working with a new lesson plan over the last couple of weeks with my students at Iwaki Koko. I tried to take on a different teac....
2 Dec 9:35 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
What to do with myself
Work has been ridiculously slow over the last couple of weeks due to illness and exams. Because of the H1N1 virus, any classroom that has 10....
18 Nov 9:46 pm  from  Bryce words from Japan   [Profile]  [Recent] 
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