Bootstrappin’

Although all Japanese people spend years studying English in school, that doesn’t mean they understand it one bit. Sure, they have rather extensive vocabularies (most of the people I’ve met here know the English words for every fruit from peach to pomegranite) — but Japanese people can’t string together a grammatical English sentence to save [...]

Sometimes I get bored when I spend the day on tropical islands in the Pacific…

This was on the deck of a ferry in Okinawa. I guess they had problems with people stripping on the boat? Or something?