I was born and raised in Oregon (west coast of the U.S.) with a brief stint in Japanese kindergarten at the age of four. I attended university in Hawaii, coached womens high school soccer, volunteered with Leatherback seaturtle conservation in Costa Rica for a while, and decided to revisit the Japan of my childhood through the JET program. This will be my second and last year teaching with the program in Gifu prefecture. I'm interested in what motivates people to take, use, and waste less. I'm hoping to learn more about the ideas, concerns and environmental efforts of people across Japan at a grassroots level, and promoting their ideas to a broader audience when possible. I'm also just excited at the prospect of being outside for two months straight! Rain or shine. I play soccer, like to read, catch sunrises and sunsets, and do lots of running preferably by a river or an ocean. This will be my first long distance cyclilng trip. Suggestions welcome! ;)
On September 29th, we left Ueki and the yummy cooking of Lloyd and Kay, to climb mount Aso. For some reason, we were riding quite fast that morning and reached our meeting spot where the 265 and 325 much earlier than expected. Lindsey and I opted to take the most direct route to Merriemont, the [...]
Hi all. We`ve just come out of a few days of intense rain on the road here. But the forecast thankfully looks sunny for the next few days. There`s some rumor of two typhoon colliding in the path of our ferry to Okinawa on Tuesday, so we`re hoping that changes somehow!! Yuji, a guy we [...]
Hi guys. The past three days have been pretty awesome We rolled in to Kyoto on the 11th for a presentation at Kyoto International School (K-9) which I found really rewarding. We presented first to the 6-9th graders and thanks to the great homeroom teachers (both from the U.S. I believe) and their educators’ instinct [...]
** Our most common riding order is Lindsey in the front, followed by Salem, then me, and Rocio in the back –don’t ask me why! actually, Rocio rides in the back because she doesn’t like to signal ** Lindsey and Salem almost always prefer soy products, I milk or dairy, and Rocio is usually happy [...]
Seeing as I only found out some of the teams main goals and rules to live by on the road AFTER I showed up for the start in Hokkaido, I thought some of you might not so clear on them either (unless ofcourse you’ve attended one of our events). So here they are, the guidlines [...]
