Mel's Adventures in Japan

Before I get into my main post, here's the link for my photos from Saturday at the Aki Matsuri: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=15...

Well, today was finally the day of the Chibi Komadori (the children's horse dance)! For the past three weeks all of us ALTs have been pr...

There have been some messages posted in the Aomori Listserv in the past year about JET positions being cut in various prefectures to be repl...

As I was thinking over various things last night, I realized that the reason why my Japanese has barely improved after a full year of living...