boycemartinJun 24, 20213 min readFirst Autumn in Echizen-shi, Japan – 6th December, 2010.School Camp Before asking you, I found two videos online for the cultural camp. One I converted to a mp3 file, put on a loop and used for...
boycemartinJun 17, 20212 min readFirst Japanese TeacherI can’t even count to twelve in Japanese. Things have settled down after these first two weeks of being kept busy. My group of friends...
boycemartinJun 2, 20216 min readTeaching in Japan / Sports Day – 9th October, 2010.My Desk View from my Desk The Dreaded Assembly Hall Time went by real slow today because I was summoned to sit with these people who now...
boycemartinSep 13, 20195 min readThe Speech – 25th August, 2010Recently, I was asked to speak in front of a room of strangers sorted in lines in a basketball-court-sized space. Knowing when this would...
boycemartinSep 6, 20193 min readOrientation – 4th August, 2010Nothing they’d said would have prepared me for Tokyo. Walking into an electrical appliances store there, I jumped back out. The flashing...
boycemartinAug 30, 20198 min readThe Bajan who made a Mountain out of a MolehillPeople were like red ants at a picnic on the igneous rock where I thought I would die. I spit on mountains everywhere now and wish that...