By Donald Ash | Articles
Saturday February 26th, 2011 Portofino Italian Restaurant So today, it finally became real to me, in front of about 80 adult students who showed up to Marisa Sensei’s and my farewell party…I’m really leaving. We had a nice dinner at the Portofino Italian restaurant and I had a chance to walk around to each and […]
Per my friend, Karl’s, recommendation, I thought I’d take a little trip to Shinjuku and visit the Square Enix store. Since I had to pick up my HIV test results at the Minami Shinjuku Building (don’t worry, it was negative), and it just so happened that the Square Enix Showcase was about a 10-15 minute […]
By Donald Ash | Articles
TSUKUBA SUMMER FESTIVAL 2010-まつりつくば Last weekend I had the chance to check out Matsuri Tsukuba. First off, what does Mastsuri (まつり) mean, anyway? Although I’m still learning as I go, Matsuri is the Japanese word for festival. Every year, in late August, Tsukuba holds it’s Summer Festival. From what I understand, most of the Japanese […]