Now that the autumn term has begun I have had to shuffle my schedule and am no longer able to spend a leisurely Wednesday afternoon teaching Doctor M “German History in English” prior to an extended session of mahjong with him and his parents. However, by shifting his class to [Read more…]
I popped into Bizenya for a bowl of “yasai ramen” and then headed across Peace Park on my way to play mahjong with Mr and Mrs Nakano. They had heard about me from a former student of mine and Mrs N had contacted me by e-mail to arrange a game [Read more…]
A refreshing change to the proceedings tonight as Noda stumbled and bumbled in the first two games of the evening, setting up David and Jaime for a profitable evening. In the second game Noda gave away the 8Coins to Jaime twice in a row… Kenyon joined us for the third [Read more…]
Jaime and I spent the early part of this evening up at the Mitaki golf practice range in preparation for Tuesday’s round of golf at Forest Hills. More practice is definitely needed, and more time reading David Leadbetter’s “The Golf Swing”. We met up again at Kodama jansou and were [Read more…]
In just 90 minutes we ran through virtually the whole gamut of 19th Century German Philosophy as presented by Steven Ozment in his A Mighty Fortress in a single 90 minute lesson… Obviously one could do little other than skate over the surface, but a few essential details were hammered [Read more…]
I spent the day playing golf with Jaime at the Forest Hills Golf Club near Hiroshima Airport. The golf course is so near the airport that as we attempted to blast our balls up the fairway we could see an aircraft readying itself for take-off just beyond the trees behind [Read more…]
After a long drawn out podcasting session at Ardle Towers I charged into town to join Tim, Jaime and Kenyon at the new Saizaria in the basement beneath the AU shop on the Hondori. Due to the time it had taken us to get just one podcast completed I was [Read more…]
Two of the usual gaijin suspects turned up at Kemby’s at 6pm for the summer holiday season pre-mahjong beer and nosh and awaited the non-arrival of the third (the fourth having already sent in apologies for his absence). The Poor Little Cypriot had been detained in the shady suburb of [Read more…]
The gaijin party met at Kemby’s for pre-match refreshments after a day of sweltering summer heat. The two DEH football players in the party had spent the day rather differently. Jaime had spent it by going out on his bicycle in the midday sun and flogging himself all the way [Read more…]
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