I would like to welcome all of you to the blog I will keep during my time as the Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kakuda, Japan. This first post will serve as a concise introduction for the blog itself and over the next several months I will be creating posts on my background, my involvement in the Sister Cities program, and life here in Kakuda.

A major upcoming project for me and Kakuda’s Planning section of City Hall is a series of lectures that will cover what the daily life, culture, and values are for the citizens of Greenfield. It is with that same ideal in mind that this blog will elucidate in English the same things about the citizens of Kakuda.

I hope many of you will find my writings to be highly informative, mildly entertaining, and at times a bit surprising. It is my intent to retain a semblance of  objectivity as I recount the major events of my life in Japan.