March 2010
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Child safety be damned!
My Junior High School was supposed to be rebuilt over the next couple of years because it’s very old and “structurally unsound,” which supposedly makes it “unsafe” (their words, not mine).
But they just decided they don’t have enough money to rebuild it, so instead they’re putting really nice, shiny, new digital TVs in every classroom, I guess to distract...
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60 Days Later is a tumblr by two Canadian illustrators who are spending 60 days in Japan. They take some really wonderful photographs (mainly of Tokyo). They’re almost halfway through their 60 days now, so hurry and go catch up on their blog!
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Japan Fun Facts pt. 13: Graduation
The Japanese school year is year round—it begins in April and ends in March—so this month (this week in particular) I’m going to all my schools’ graduation ceremonies. I attended my junior high’s graduation on Tuesday, and yesterday I went to my elementary school’s.
One thing that stood out to me right away was that they played music that I, as an American,...
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