Nikki Knight, Megan Pankratz and I (Anna Radke) are planning a volunteer trip to India on March 20-29, 2009.  We will travel through a program called LONGITUDE This web page is incredibly detailed. Please check it out!

A favorite pastime of many people in Japan is onsen cuisine tours.  And perhaps the most popular of these is the crab onsen tour.  Around September posters and brochures start popping up everywhere enticing you with pictures of gigantic crabs.  But if you have never booked an onsen...

Looking for something different to do on a weekend?  Give squid fishing a try!  In the Obama area, there are several recreational fishing boats that will take you out squid fishing.  It's a lot of fun and an interesting experience.  And you'll get lots of fish you can give to...

Last May, I went to the Rai Rai Tei ramen shop in Minami Hikone.  After eating my meal, I filled out a survey telling them the food was superb but I would love them that much more if they went eco and switched to washable chopsticks.  Fast forward to yesterday (late September), I returned...

So unless you're living up in Tohoku somewhere, getting to Hokkaido can be an expensive proposal but it doesn't have to be!  Taking the ferry up to the far north is the cheapest option around if you have the time to do it.

          Having a baby in Japan was possibly both the most stressful and the most rewarding experience in my life t

Here's the petition I've written to send to CLAIR.  I've included a Japanese and an English version, although I'll most likely only send the Japanese version (the person who'll be reading it is Japanese).  So if you want to support reason in the workplace and make life a little more sane...

For those who don't know, International Earth Day is on April 22nd. In order to help celebrate this day, on Saturday, April 19th I helped organize a group of ALTs here in Shiga to clean up a part of the shoreline in Nagahama, at the northern end of Lake Biwa (Japan's largest and dirtiest lake).