I'm not going to lie, as excited as I was about getting a job with Freecom, I was not excited about working again. As hard as it was to adjust from a work schedule to total freedom at the beginning of my trip in 2017, it has been so much harder going from freedom to work. It …
Who knew that after just one week in Japan I'd have already seen many of my coworkers and students naked. 😮 Whoa, let's back up. I have been in Japan just over two weeks now. In some ways it feels like I've been here for months, and in others it's like I arrived yesterday. Sometimes …
In Japanese there are many beautiful, and sometimes funny, proverbs, phrases, and words that don't directly translate to English. For example, there is a Japanese proverb, chiri mo tsumoreba yama to naru, meaning "even dust, if piled, can become a mountain". Or the Japanese word, komorebi, that means "sunlight filtering through trees" and yugen, which roughly translates …
