Author Archives: Sunja
Random Something or Other…
While I am still working on my Spring Break update, Episode #3, and my experience with the cherry blossoms, here’s something to tide you over… My friend Brian and I made a short video to demonstrate recycling in Japan. It’s just something he wanted to pull together real quick, but it was fun. Meh. See […]
The Battle
The Battle Music (It is my favorite song from The Chronicles of Narnia for your enjoyment, and for dramatic effect…) There is a battle going on here. Sword brandished, jaw set and head held high. It is early morning and far across the agreed battlefield I can see my opponent. My army is ready to […]
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A Frozen Watch
Time is frozen. I am staring at the broken remains of a watch stopped at exactly 8:15. 63 years ago it stopped working; it is a timestamp—an artifact of history that makes everything real. I don’t know how long it took, or whether or not his family found his body. I don’t know his last […]
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Spring Break
March 13th was the last day of school before going onto spring break. I finished classes around 1:00 with ceramics, and not having much else to do, I rode my bicycle back to the seminar house and fixed some ramen noodles for lunch. I was nervous and extremely excited, because on Saturday I would be […]
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Spring Break: Day 6
My parents plane left sometime in the afternoon, and with my Shinkansen ticket to Hiroshima at 5:00, we had to part ways with each other fairly early. I escorted my parents to Osaka, and we had enough time to visit a few stores and buy some “last minute things.” I went as far as the […]
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