One of my “teaching gigs” is at Hiroshima College of Foreign Languages, HCFL or “Gaigo” for short. “Gaigo” or 「外語」 is the abbreviation of the Japanese name, 広島外語専門学校, Hiroshima Gaigo Senmon Gakko. A “senmon gakko” is a vocational college and the courses last for two years as opposed to three [Read more…]
Here are some photos and videos of the scene in Rakurakuen during the Hiroshima Ekiden – the prefectural relay marathon – that ran from Peace Park in the centre of Hiroshima City to Miyajimaguchi and back on Sunday afternoon. Rakurakuen is approximately halfway between Hiroshima city centre and the island [Read more…]
Last night I hopped onto the tram and headed into town to meet a couple of other teachers and a bunch of our former students who all graduated from Hiroshima College of Foreign Languages in March 2018. We made up a party of 14 people. The students had attended either [Read more…]
The Rakurakuen grapevine was buzzing the other day with news that Yataizushi, the sushi-izakaya opposite Rakurakuen tram-stop, 寿司居酒屋 や台ずし 楽々園駅前町, was offering 100 yen beers all evening from Tuesday to Thursday of this week. I mentioned this to my loquacious quaffing partner, Brendan McG. and we agreed on popping into the [Read more…]
I returned home from a class today to find two parcels in the letter box. Two books that I’d more or less forgotten that I’d ordered. Their arrival was timely as today is my birthday. One is The City and Man by Leo Strauss. The other is Machiavelli’s God by [Read more…]
I have been reading the Kindle edition of From Hell. From Hell is a graphic novel by Alan Moore about the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, London, in 1888. The premise of the comic is based on a conspiracy theory devised by Stephen Knight according to which the Jack the Ripper [Read more…]
Here’s a timely podcast hosted by Aubrey Marcus in conversation with Eric Godsey (who I had not heard of before) on the theme of “the game of life.” If you haven’t heard of Aubrey Marcus before, he’s the founder and CEO of Onnit and modern day philosopher whose podcast that [Read more…]
I was listening to Lewis Howes interviewing Jon Taffer on The School Of Greatness. At the 30 minute mark Taffer talked about how he deals with having multiple projects on the go: “You know, I wake up every day and I think to myself, I’ve got these twelve balls on [Read more…]
We are in the middle of the Hiroshima cherry blossom season right now. This year, the cherry trees have blossomed against a dull and saturnine sky. It rained last Wednesday, but the rain did not wash the cherry blossoms off the trees. All week the sky has been grey, obliterating [Read more…]
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