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Who: Yuko-sensei
What: Art class!
When: every 2nd & 4th Sunday
Where: less than 1 minute away from Beppu Ekki
Every 2nd and 4th Sunday the art teacher at my school, , Yuko-sensei, is offering classes. She is really great and speaks English. From 13:30 - 15:30 is painting, and from 16:00 - 18:00 is drawing. […]
Let this picture be a lesson….
It’s that time of year when the weather starts getting warmer and our thoughts turn to….. drinking outside under cherry blossoms!
This year, Oita is scheduled to hit on March 25, so mark you calendars. For more information check Tenki.jp. View full article for 2008 forecast map.
Written by Jez Quiney
Updated 3.12.2008!
Arriving in Japan I had a passing interest in modern Japanese music, in the last 18 months this has developed into an outright obsession!
I thought that I would share some of my discoveries and passions with other JETs, not only because there is so much good music out there (I […]
Shoten 笑点 – Saturday Afternoons (exact times vary), TOS
Saturday Afternoon. You’ve already had lunch, but it’s still too early for dinner. You must have turned on the television and flipped through Oita’s limited channels a dozen times already, to no avail. Nonetheless you once again snatch up the remote with the slight hope […]
Sometimes, being a foreigner is all you need to get a laugh in Japan. It is as though your every word is golden, and your co-workers marvel at your slightest action. Then there is the rest of the time, which is probably most of the time. In these moments you may find […]
大分国際チャリティサイクリング２００８年
RSVP by March 1, 2008!
When: March 20th, 21th & 22th (Thurs, Fri, Sat) 2008 - You will need to take one day of nenkyu (paid holiday) on the Friday.
What: The plan is to cycle around 300km in 3 days through the beautiful countryside of Oita prefecture and raise loads of money for charity in […]
The New Year is here already. If you were one of the three-or-so JETs or other foreign residents that stayed in Oita as the globe invested in new calendars, perhaps you took a little time to celebrate shogatsu in style and play the traditional Japanese game of Karuta.
Karuta (typically written in katana as カルタ, […]
The Holy Trinity of Japanese culture in the eyes of outsiders may be sushi, sumo and samurai, but one unforgettable aspect of culture often unknown outside the country immediately springs to the minds of those who live here: Love Hotels, or as they are far too appropriately katakana-ized, Rub Hotels.
Any garish, neon-plated building entirely […]
Urasawa Naoki’s Monster
A man on the run, framed for murders he didn’t commit, hounded by police wherever he goes. The only way to clear his name is to uncover the real murderer and the truth by himself. Sounds familiar? Monster is not The Fugitive, nor does it strive to be. It […]