This Space, This Time...

There is so much to love about Japanese Bento Boxes! From home-made to train station selects, restaurant style to convenient store quickies...the Japanese Bento Box meal is one of the most eye pleasing, mouth watering, nutritionally satisfying ways to enjoy typical (and often non-typical) Japanese cuisine. Bento served to the performers at a TAIKO DRUM event: RICE, SALMON ROE & CHIKUKA ODEN Bentos at a local supermarket at lunch time What I call the 'SUPER CUTE' bento culture _____ In my school, the majority of the Japanese staff always bring their lunches to work. Those who live with mother's and wives usually are blessed to have these kind ladies prepare their bentos each day. On occasion, the well-organized single individual and working wife will make a bento for themselves, however I've never seen a single man bring a home-made bento to work. Here is my desk-mate Chigusa san and her bento for the day (Her mom made it ;) On the o...

One of the greatest 'take-aways' I still have from my work experience with the Kokrobitey Institute while in Ghana, is the awareness of an essay that I feel captures the essence of how I am now and still, who I aspire to be. The author has since laid to rest, but Taiye Tuakli-Wosornu was said to be herself a lovely Afropolitan herself. Her piece "Where is Babar" is also known as "What's an Afropolitan?" I want to share it with you all at this time. "What's an Afropolitan?" It’s moments to midnight on Thursday night at Medicine Bar in London. Zak, boy-genius DJ, is spinning a Fela Kuti remix. The little downstairs dancefloor swells with smiling, sweating men and women fusing hip-hop dance moves with a funky sort of djembe. The women show off enormous afros, tiny t-shirts, gaps in teeth; the men those incredible torsos unique to and common on African coastlines. The whole scene speaks of the Cultural Hybrid: kente cloth worn...

Check out what Ji Young & Ji Soo, the Korean students I taught while in Ghana wrote as a part of my lesson! http://akoreanstudentsdiaryinghana.blogspot.jp/ http://koreanstudentinghana.blogspot.jp/ They tell part of the story of my time there! Maraina