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Revival
Wow. It’s been five years. How ya been? Somehow, I recently rediscovered this blog after thinking I had lost everything years ago. Looking back on it has been delightfully nostalgic, but a lot has changed. I don’t live in Fukuoka City anymore, but I am still in Japan. I moved to a quieter city last year, and things have honestly been pretty great. I’m currently in a Masters program online, live…
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The weather as been perfect lately, and to be honest I’ve needed some quality time to relax, so last weekend I spent all day Sunday strolling around Fukuoka’s famous Ohori and Maizuru Parks. The ducks and turtles are out playing; and the wisteria and yaezakura are beautiful.
Lazying about the park can be tiring though, so after a few hours of doing nothing but trying to get the perfect shot of a turtle, I went to my favorite restaurant in Fukuoka, Evah Dining. It’s a macrobiotic vegan restaurant, but their meat alternatives are so good I dream about them. I can’t recommend it enough to both vegans and meat-eaters. Please check it out if you’re ever in Fukuoka! (I never did get my shot of the turtle though…)
I also took some videos. If you want to see what the parks and restaurant are like, check it out!
a day in the park The weather as been perfect lately, and to be honest I've needed some quality time to relax, so last weekend I spent all day Sunday strolling around Fukuoka's famous Ohori and Maizuru Parks.
What I've Been Wearing/よく着てる洋服
What I’ve Been Wearing/よく着てる洋服
I just had a little fun today dressing up and taking pictures in things I wear all the time. I used to be such a shopaholic, but I’m slowly learning the value of minimalism. Finding items you truly love and feel comfortable in is a beautiful thing, so why not wear them all the time?! …
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Beautiful Moments
I love my job and have to tell you about it. Everyday is a mini adventure.
I love my job. I really do. Such amazing, hilarious, heart-warming, and beautiful things happen there. In case you didn’t know, I used to be an ALT (assistant language teacher), but now I am a teacher at an all-English day care in Fukuoka, Japan. We take care of kids from the age of 3-9 (at the moment) and teach them about the world in English. I am currently running the Elementary class, but I…
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Why am I still here?
Why am I still here?
I’ve been living in Japan for three and a half years now, and sometimes I catch myself thinking, Why am I still here? What am I looking for? What am I doing with my life? But I never have to think very long for my questions to be answered. Here are some of my current reasons for staying in Japan: 1. OMOTENASHI–Customer service My mom always told me that I should never settle for anyone who…
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Snow Storms and Slipping: My first trip to a Japanese emergency room
Snow Storms and Slipping: My first trip to a Japanese emergency room
You’re probably thinking based on the title of this post that I slipped in a snow storm, but you would be mistaken. It definitely was snowing when I slipped, but rather embarrassingly I was actually inside my apartment. You see, last weekend, Fukuoka received a cold snap and a large amount of snow which is rare for this region. I was safe in my bed asleep when the majority of it fell. However,…
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明けましておめでとう
明けましておめでとう！Or as they say in Texas: Happy New Year, y’all. Work was insane in December. We were super busy because the kids are out of public school, and a few teachers got sick on our busiest day. Needless to say, it was exhausting. However, it is now holiday season in Japan, and I’m off until the 4th. I made zero plans this year, so I’ve mostly been hanging around my house, watching horrible…
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Here are some wonderful facts about Sea World’s orcas!
The average lifespan of wild orcas ranges from 30-50 years, although some females can easily make it past 80 (a wild orca named J2 or ‘Granny’ is 103 this year!). The lifespan of a Sea World orca is around 25 years, the median age being 9. But at least they put on a good show!
Don’t worry, collapsed dorsal fins are a common condition, although in the wild only sick or injured orcas have collapsed dorsal fins. All of Sea World’s males and some females have it, it makes them look unique!
The size of Sea World’s tanks compared to an orca is about the same as a human to a bathtub. Lot’s of room to stretch and move!
Wild orcas swim 100+ miles a day, they would have to swim around their tank 1,400+ times a day to achieve that. But that seems like a lot of work, and you may see the animals hanging out near the surface of the water or on the bottoms of their tanks for hours. That’s a lot more relaxing than swimming all those miles!
Sea World gives their orcas a Valium-like drug to stop the whales from acting aggressively towards each other and to numb their minds from their vastly uninteresting concrete tanks. Buying a ticket to Sea World is an excellent way to help them pay for these drugs that they pump their animals full with!
Many captive orcas show abnormal behaviors like head bobbing, chewing on concrete, and self mutilation by banging their heads into the side of the tank. Obviously just temper-tantrums! Silly things.
In the wild, there has been only one orca attack. Bad orca! While in captivity, there have been over 100 attacks and 4 deaths. These animals just need more training, it couldn’t possibly be related to their confinement!
Food is used as reinforcement for tricks. Do a trick, get your dinner. Don’t want to do a trick? I guess you don’t eat tonight you stubborn thing!
See? Sea World isn’t as bad as people make it out to be! Oh, one more fact: for every $1,000,000 Sea World makes, about $600 goes into conservation efforts (about $0.5 a ticket). I’m so glad they care about conservation of the ocean! Amazing work!
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If you haven’t realized it yet, this post is 100% sarcastic. It should be obvious, but not everyone understands sarcasm…
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Ariana Grande as Sonya Herfmann a.k.a Chanel #2 in 1x01 - ‘Pilot’
#MasulinitySoFragile is speaking the truth
I Moved! (and other updates)
I Moved! (and other updates)
Life has been a little crazy the past few months. In July, I was busy packing and preparing for my move to Fukuoka City. I found a job here and came towards the end of the month to set everything up and find an apartment. Then in August, my ALT job officially ended, and I spent a few days hanging out with friends before I left for Tokyo for job training. I had tons of going away parties and cried…
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milky way memory
これやばくない？！
“We live in a world where losing your phone is more dramatic than losing your virginity”
Um ok but I don’t recall my virginity having 16 GB of memory with all my contacts, music, photos, calendars, and apps or costing over $200.
my phone is an expensive and important material object and not a useless social construct put in place to shame and commodify women
Plus I remember where I lost my virginity.
My Japanese friend just curved the SHIT out of this white boy you don’t even understand. I asked her why she did did him like that. She said: “I do not like white people, and everyone around me where I live they either don’t like them or are starting not to like them. Cause they keep coming to Japan and trying to hit on date us or marry because they hear “asian women are easy when it comes to white men”, and everytime my friends are outside and go to the club, they try and ask us out, and when we say no they say things like “But other japanese like white people, you don’t like us?” “What’s the problem the problem, we’re white”, “Don’t japanese like white people?”, they come to us with a superiority that we must like them because we’re japanese, because you know, america painted a picture to us that the white man is the successful one and they’re the best, I just don’t like them, I just don’t feel comfortable dating someone who’s white. I feel like a fetish, and I feel used.” — By the way learn another language, it opens up doors and you can see the world much deeper, new doors open.
Living in Japan I witnessed this
Happens here in the Philippines too…
About 3-4 people from the Philippines reblogged this and said the same thin about the Philippines too, like a year ago my friend from the Philippines asked why white men keep coming to their country for things like that, I thought nothing of it, thought it was just unfounded. So today after seen a lot of reblogs with so many replies from Asians, including Filipinos, I did some research, and apparently this shit is worse in the Philippines, and this happens in all asian countries. That apparently white men painted a picture of supremacy, and they go to these asian countries to get off on it. Just asked the filippina friend, she said they come here a lot for prostitution as well, and that prostitution is not regulated well there, so they sleep a lot with the underage girls. I saw a few reblogs get back on my dash, so today I decided to go check the reblogs Here’s are just a few of the reblogs from this I saw, which I found crazy (Before I felt I just had to go research it) “A Japanese friend of mine said basically the same thing.” “I’m not surprised. Foreigners are just as bad in Taiwan but I don’t think Taiwanese are sick of their shit yet.”
“….I know a girl who’s dad literally married her mom because of a fetish, and now she hates half her identity because it’s so sexualized……….I don’t know exactly where the trend started that Asian women are docile submissive dragon mothers” “Used to see this all the time in college. White guys going after the Asian international students.”
“I live in the Philippines and white men are considered a “jackpot” here, I hope to destroy this concept.”
“I didn’t even have to live in Japan to witness this, I joined the Japanese club at my Australian uni and nearly every week the same white boys would be hitting on the Japanese exchange students. The behavior of these boys only got worse during social events like Karaoke Night “
“(an asian girl) —i’m not japanese but reading this helped me understand why i don’t like dating white men. I just never knew the words to describe it. - I feel like a fetish”
“…I am not Japan, but as a child of a Chinese man, and a woman no less, I can attest that white men treat Asian women like a fucking fetish. God bless the Japanese women and the bullshit they put up with. To all the white fuckbois who think Japanese people HAVE to like you…NEWSFLASH: NO ONE HAS TO LIKE YOUR SELF-ENTITLED ASSES”. —- (Interestingly, After all of this, a white girl reblogged saying “100% agree but don’t let it get out of hand, or perpetuate anything, yeah?”)<– Are you serious? Basically saying let’s not spread this and make the world think it’s actually happening. Are you serious? —
There’s too many more reblogs I’ve seen to add to this list but, now I see, that apparently it’s very true. And this is a huge thing that white people are like, and that white people do. It left me in disgust.
the white girl that reblogged with that bullshit is the type of white girl that wants to “fight the patriarchy” but not bite the white male hand that feeds her and is related to her. i wish white women spoke up about this fetishization but whatever, it’s all about them and they’ll feel some type of way they don’t get attention. even if it’s the worst type.
ofc white women aren’t gonna speak up lol
who’s buying those “I want a japanese boyfriend” shirts at anime conventions and acting out of pocket on kpop forums about their oppas
I live in Japan and you better believe I don't let things like this fly in my friend circle. I protect my Japanese girl friends when we're out and speak out to white guys who try to do stuff like this.
A lot of my older Japanese friends (like my parents age) ask me why Japanese women are so popular to foreigners, and I tell them that soo many westerners and white guys think they're "docile and subservient" and those guys have creepy fetishes... and all my old ladies friends say "they wouldn't want to date me!" Haha
i love her so much!
What irks me about the Sandra Bland case.
1. She should never have been arrested. She changed lanes to let the officer pass her and forgot to signal. THIS ALL HAPPENED FROM NOT SIGNALING. 2. Her mugshot is in a jumpsuit (no others from that police department were) and she is clearly laying on the floor with what looks like tears down her face and one arm extended. Many people even claim she is dead in the photo because her eyes look lifeless. She knew how to take a picture, and she always had her head and eyes pointed at the camera 3. The officers claim she hung herself off a 5 ft tall wall with a plastic bag from a trashcan. 4. She is 6 ft tall…trashcans are not supposed to be in jail cells…in the “untampered” picture of her cell after she was “found” the trashcan has a bag in it ??? 5. The dashcam footage made public has been edited by the officers – even a director, Ava DuVernay believes it is edited, and that is what she does for a living. 6. Her mental health evaluations show inconsistencies as if she was not the one filling them out. 7. This was a woman knew her rights and was threatening to sue. You can hear in the arrest video that she cannot WAIT to get out so she can talk with her lawyer. How did that change in 3 days? 8. Her family and attorney who heard from her while in police custody says she spoke NOTHING of suicide 9. She was an activist and you can find videos showing her spirit. She wanted to change the system, end police brutality, push forward the Black Lives Matter movement. 10. It is being shown the officer who escalated the situation and arrested her lied multiples times in his account of what happened. 11. Now her attorney is asking for her body back because the original autopsy was inadequate.
unless these cops are complete fucking idiots and screwed up every little thing on accident and accidentally killed her because their brains cannot function properly, then she was murdered and they should all be jailed for the rest of their lives.
SAY HER NAME. JUSTICE FOR SANDY. WHAT HAPPENED TO SANDRA BLAND?
