I'm Big in Japan: June 2011

I'll hopefully return to this blog, but my latest travel plans have spawned a new one.
Look here if you're interested!

http://mrttravels.blogspot.com

Who's Big in Japan?

I'm a 25 26 27 28 29 30 year old Brit, teaching English in Tokyo. In the past I've studied History at Leicester & Liverpool Universities as well as a CELTA at Manchester Teaching Academy. I've worked in the Rimrock Resort Hotel in Banff Alberta, travelled around Eastern Europe, and held many different temporary office positions in and around Warrington. I've dabbled in skiing in Europe and snowboarding in Canada. I trained for just over two years at Warrington Kickboxing studio and I continued my training for around 6 months at the All Japan Kickboxing Federation gym in Okubo, Tokyo. I took a break from martial arts and stuck to weights and running for 5 months then joined Toikatsu MMA gym around September 2007 - which teaches jujitsu, grappling, boxing, kickboxing and wrestling. I've been learning Japanese on and off since I got here, and yes, it is a as difficult as it looks!

"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't." - Mark Twain

The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Notes from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
My Booky Wook - Russel Brand
Love and Other Near Death Experiences - Mil Millington
Black & White - Taiyo Matsumoto
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Status Anxiety - Alain de Botton
The Plague - Albert Camus
Mao, A Life - Phillip Short
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber - Ernest Hemingway
Fifty Grand - Ernest Hemingway
A Way You'll Never Be - Ernest Hemingway
The Killers - Ernest Hemingway
In Another Country - Ernest Hemingway
Fathers and Sons - Ernest Hemingway
The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio - Ernest Hemingway
A Days Wait - Ernest Hemingway
A Clean Well Lighted Place - Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
The Full Moon - Yasushi Inoue
Obasute - Yasushi Inoue
The Counterfeiter - Yasushi Inoue
The Izu Dancer - Yasunari Kawabata
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The Japanese Today, Change and Continuity - Edwin O. Reischauer
The End - Samuel Beckett
The Calmative - Samuel Beckett
First Love - Samuel Beckett
The Expelled - Samuel Beckett
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Doctor and the Devils - Dylan Thomas
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman - Bruce Robinson
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
This Gun For Hire - Graham Greene
The Lady with the Toy Dog - Anton Chekhov
Gooseberries - Anton Chekhov
The Peasants - Anton Chekhov
The House with the Mezzanine - Anton Chekhov
The Black Monk - Anton Chekhov
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

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