About Me
My name is Mara, but you probably knew that already. In the summer of 2008, I visited Japan for the first time, spending seven weeks in the city of Kanazawa in Ishikawa prefecture (石川県の金沢市) doing a Monroe scholarship project on Japanese cultural color-emotion associations. I graduated from the College of William & Mary in May 2009 and was accepted by the JET Program shortly thereafter. Now, I live in Hamada city in Shimane prefecture (島根県の浜田市) teaching English at 11 elementary schools. This blog is mostly for family and friends to keep up with my activities, but I hope to make some educational posts about the culture I find myself adapting to.
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A recent college graduate with a degree in chemistry teaching English in Middle of Nowhere, Japan. I'm just lucky that way. :)
Mara – my brother Jonathan pointed your Japan blog out to me – very cool stuff. I love your area of research. One of friends, Michelle, really misses her time in Japan, and another friend (http://amabaku.livejournal.com/) goes back all the time. I’ve never been to Japan myself, though I thought about it for years, when I was studying Aikido Yoshinkai style.
I blog in a few places – personal stuff (mostly locked down to friends) at http://mcohenmn.livejournal.com/ and professional stuff at
http://www.realtown.com/mattcohen/blog/ as well as the usual stubs at myspace, facebook and all the usual other places. One day I hope they work out syndication between online social communities and how to define ‘friends’ between all those places.
I hope all continues to be well for you, and that you acheive all you want, both in research and other aspects of your life.
Google translator claims that the upper left title of this page means:
“They are trying one more foreigners in Japan”
Haha, brilliant! I meant it to say “One more foreigner trying (her) best in Japan”.
We have been watching your vlogs and viewing the photos you have posted. Grandma is very impressed with the manhole covers. She would like one for her bathroom floor. But they are probably too heavy! We will have to make prints. What a beautiful city you are in. MOM and Grandma