As I'm here in a new city, I just felt like it was time to move blogs. There are various reasons, and what with all the issues facing Facebook recently, I don't really feel like doing too much there. So, here I am. And here you are, hopefully.



It's spring in Japan, and that means...SAKURA!

It's cherry-blossom season. It has come really late here in Eniwa. As such, here are the obligatory sakura photos. (Click on a photo to go to my Picasa photo album.)



This is the man-made stream that runs through the park behind my school. Chiemi is on the bridge, looking at the little waterfall.



Here's the pond in said park. It looks nicer from a distance than from close up. It's not the cleanest water.



View of the bridge and some of the blossoms.



Same shot, different F-stop.



Along the path I take to work everyday.



Flowers and sparkles.



Back at the mini-waterfall.



Here's the tallest building on my school's campus, with Eniwa-dake (site of the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympic downhill skiing) to the right and Mt. I-don't-know to the left in the background.



This photo is not in Eniwa, but rather up in Furano, a city a few hours north of here. The town happens to have been the setting for a very long running TV drama called 北の国から (Kita-no-Kuni-kara - From the northern country). It's a picturesque city set amongst several mountain ranges.


As far as things at work and the like, everything is going quite well, and I'm really getting into the swing of things and am enjoying things generally, though there are some days, looking ahead at my schedule come fall, that I am dreading. If nothing changes, I will have 7 teaching hours a day on several Wednesdays, along with 6 hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I hope to write more here in this new blog. Hope to see you all here.