By Donnie | General Living in Japan
Hey gang, I wanna say thank you guys for checking on me as of late. I appreciate the emails and comments asking how I’ve been, and everybody making sure that all is well. You guys are the best! I hope you guys are all good, too. Truthfully, I’ve run into my snags here and there […]
By Donnie | Foreigners In Japan
ROCKIN’ IN JAPAN with Nikolas Faraguna 1.Tell us a yourself, Nik. Where are you from? Nelson, BC, Canada 2.Where did you go to school? Music college in Nelson 3.What brought you to Japan? Tokyo has always fascinated me… my Japanese friends in Canada said there would probably be a lot of opportunity in Tokyo for […]
By Donnie | Japanese Elementary School
I was going through old pictures the other day when I found this set of pics that one teacher took on my last day teaching at a Japanese public school. Looking through the pictures jogged my memory about an old post that I had written but never published. Though it’s not very long, it shows […]
Mmm, mmm, mmm! I will be the first one to tell you that a McDonald’s chicken sandwich with a large order of crispy, lightly salted, golden fries followed by the sweet frothiness of Triple Thick Strawberry Milkshake* can be pure taste bud bliss! The effect is intensified when I’m stoically focused on training and eating […]
By Donnie | Foreigners In Japan
In a previous post I mentioned to you that there have been some pretty significant changes to Japan’s Immigration System, many of which are changes for the better. For example, those with a valid Japan work visa, unless you’re staying out of the country for longer than a year, you reentry will be as simple […]
If you live in Japan long enough, you are undoubtedly going to experience a funny, weird, or strange incident at some point or another. So here is one of my recent stories. I got on the train with badly sprained foot*, I was in a splint and all bandaged up. There was a kind, Japanese […]
I had the strange pleasure of playing one of my favorite, childhood superheroes on Japanese TV, well, sort of. I got to do a reenactment of one Enrique dos Santos. If you’re not familiar with the story, there was this Brazilian man who enjoyed painting himself green in order to look like Marvel Comics’ “The […]