When I returned to Japan after a 5-year hiatus to teach in the JET program in 2002, I tried to revive my old Jay’s Juicy Japan Junk e-mails from my student days years before in Fukuoka. This was the only e-mail I ended up sending that year, but it’s definitely my favorite of the JJJJ e-mails! Hello again old friends, It is time for a rebirth. A renewal of life. A revisualization of dreams. Or if that’s not your thing, […]
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Manila 2000
This is the weekend report I wrote for the activities of the Taipei Animals soccer team on and off the field at the 2000 Millennium 6-a-Side International Football Tournament in Manila. You can see the full website I created for the event (complete with risqué pictures) here. On Friday, November 17, 2000, a group of very brave men gathered early in the morning at Taipei International Airport, leaving behind girlfriends, wives, and children (for good reason!) and their beloved jobs […]
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During my first sojourn abroad as a wide eyed 19-year-old studying at Kyushu University in Japan, I sent out a series of e-mails to friends and family back home detailing the various adventures from one of the best years of my life. While my youth and naivety are glaringly apparent, these were my first attempts at writing travelogues and I look back at these silly little e-mails with a good bit of nostalgia and fondness. And it’s interesting to see […]
read moreJay’s Juicy Japan Junk #3
During my first sojourn abroad as a wide eyed 19-year-old studying at Kyushu University in Japan, I sent out a series of e-mails to friends and family back home detailing the various adventures from one of the best years of my life. While my youth and naivety are glaringly apparent, these were my first attempts at writing travelogues and I look back at these silly little e-mails with a good bit of nostalgia and fondness. And it’s interesting to see […]
read moreJay’s Juicy Japan Junk #2
During my first sojourn abroad as a wide eyed 19-year-old studying at Kyushu University in Japan, I sent out a series of e-mails to friends and family back home detailing the various adventures from one of the best years of my life. While my youth and naivety are glaringly apparent, these were my first attempts at writing travelogues and I look back at these silly little e-mails with a good bit of nostalgia and fondness. And it’s interesting to see […]
read moreJay’s Juicy Japan Junk #1
During my first sojourn abroad as a wide eyed 19-year-old studying at Kyushu University in Japan, I sent out a series of e-mails to friends and family back home detailing the various adventures from one of the best years of my life. While my youth and naivety are glaringly apparent, these were my first attempts at writing travelogues and I look back at these silly little e-mails with a good bit of nostalgia and fondness. And it’s interesting to see […]
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