I've decided to resuscitate this blog because... I'm moving back to Japan! That's right, after an extended hiatus away from the Land of the Rising Sun, I'm going back. This summer, I will be studying doing a homestay in Kyoto and studying advanced Japanese through the
Critical Language Scholarship program based at the
Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies. Then, I'll be in the U.S. for a bit, tying up loose ends in Berkeley, visiting family in Seattle, and presenting at a conference and doing some interviews in Washington D.C., before heading back to Tokyo to start 12 months of fieldwork. Exciting stuff!
In any case, I will be updating this blog regularly with tales of productivity and adventure, and as always, a ton of pictures. I look forward to sharing them with you! For now, I'd like to get things started with a slideshow from my time at an English teacher in Niigata-ken from 2005-2006--it's a "greatest hits," of sorts. Enjoy!
