A year? Japan?

Hard to believe it's been a whole year since we arrived. And it's official - we're moving to a new town, to new jobs, and a new home on March 1st. Our apartment size is about to be doubled, and our workload is about to be halved. They say the Year of the Fire Pig brings turbulence. We're about to put that to the test.

Our new home:


...and a quick pan of our new (smaller) town. Definitely a university town. Reminds me of Sackville.



AND! We had a very quick trip to Fukuoka, Japan just ahead of the Lunar New Year break. The following is a very thrown-together montage, with clips from our ferry ride, the Fukuoka Folk History Museum, the noodle stalls this town's known for, some typically-wacky Japanese games, and some music from an early 80s Japanese punk band. Whee!

Unity

A month has already passed since Helen's murder, and nearly one month since thousands of NOLA citizens gathered together to "take back (their) city". May hearing the these speakers continue to inspire positive actions, and more love, every day.



Lots of updates on creative tributes, screenings of Helen's wonderful films, and political action on the Helen Hill memorial site.

A Korean Primer, by my students.

Over the past week, I've been racing to finish a small video project that was conceived, storyboarded, and partially written by three of my teenage students. It's a 10 minute video made for a group of Canadian Girl Guides in Ontario, who are studying different Asian countries at a special event this weekend. The question I put to my students: "If you could tell Canadian kids anything about Korea, or your lives here, what would you want them to know?" I'm quite proud of these girls!