http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/ A Year in Japan en-us 2005-08-19T09:10:27-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/025856.html Hello Avid Readers! For you most surely must be to still be reading these newsletters! Well, my last month in Japan was a wonderful time. My 2nd cousin from PA came over to visit me in Japan and we toured... cassl001 2005-08-19T09:10:27-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/023943.html Hi Folks! First off, thank you for all the messages and comments about my last newsletter! Great to hear from you and I’ll try to incorporate what I can in future newsletters…though there aren’t many to go before I return... cassl001 2005-07-01T07:52:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/022898.html Welcome to the May E-Newsletter! Things have been relatively quiet again since I am just puttering along on my work and “adventuring” on the weekends, as one person called it. Well, hope you enjoy this dispatch and that you are... cassl001 2005-06-07T21:02:00-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/020716.html Well, it’s been a while…nearly a month since the last dispatch. There’s been a lot going on since vacation has now ended, the semester has begun and things are in full swing. Yesterday was the first “real summer day” or... cassl001 2005-04-29T04:55:22-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/018917.html Well, March was a varied month! It started out with me just recovered from being sick most of February and daily visits to my local Elementary school to help with their “Long English Conversation” time. I said “goodbye” to a... cassl001 2005-04-02T04:05:27-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/016930.html Over the last week, I have been progressively feeling better at long last and today I felt “super-genki.” From everyone’s e-mails and letters, it seems I had the “crud” that everyone in MN has been having then it gave way... cassl001 2005-03-01T02:30:03-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/016252.html I’m back again! That last message was written a while ago, but I hadn’t been even feeling well enough to go to the un-heated common room to send it to y’all. So needless to say, it’s time-warp time since it... cassl001 2005-02-19T03:55:52-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/016251.html Well, what a long strange trip it has been…and though this is not drug-induced, it may be fever induced since I am typing away at this with a cold/possible sinus/ear infection I can’t seem to shake. Things have been going... cassl001 2005-02-13T12:00:00-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/013593.html False Start A friend and I went to HCity with the intentions of seeing the Weather museum, Shukkeien Gardens, and the Hiroshima-jo. Well, we got up & on our way early, made it all the way to Eba and then... cassl001 2005-01-09T19:36:21-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/013049.html This is a great article about Europe and something I think we in the US are facing in a less constructive way. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&ncid=2027&e=1&u=/chitribts/20041219/ts_chicagotrib/islamshapinganeweurope Osoji (AKA: the big year-end cleaning) So we cleaned our offices from top to bottom, since in... cassl001 2004-12-26T05:34:55-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/012963.html Just thought you’d like to know…during the trip to Tomonoura, apparently there was a reporter/photographer from a local paper there and took a photo of my and one of the HIC staff making Chickuwa or fish cakes. Christmas I am... cassl001 2004-12-20T12:00:00-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/012426.html December – Part 1 Friendly Fungi! Ok, so it’s fall (winter to some) and the mushrooms are in season…not just plain mushrooms with the white caps or shitake, but all different kinds--some I have seen before some I have not.... cassl001 2004-12-07T12:00:00-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/011939.html PART 3 There was also another trip I made to Tomo no Ura coordinated by the Hiroshima City’s international center, rather than the university’s. That way it had people who live in HCity as well as some students…good mix really!... cassl001 2004-11-30T03:24:11-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/011938.html PART 2 I have begun going over to a colleague’s house once a week to chat in English and have dinner with his family. It’s kind of been like a cultural exchange, so to speak. Initially, they offered to pay... cassl001 2004-11-30T03:23:08-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cassl001/raincastles/011937.html Realization… Recently, I was working on an acquaintance’s introduction to their thesis. I am realizing that I have been very fortunate to learn all that I have by my age. The person I am helping with his thesis is from... cassl001 2004-11-30T03:21:37-06:00