Emmeline, remember the escalator that Corduroy goes up in the book, when he’s looking for his button? The airports have moving sidewalks that are just like escalators, but they move flat along the ground instead of up. Boarding now for Chengdu–should see Bekah in six hours or so. Right, Bekah?

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Derek and Ashley have been telling their kids about my visit for the last few days, and in some unrelated conversation about juggling Derek mentioned, “You know, Mr. Tim can juggle.” Which is how I ended up leading a gym class on juggling for 15 Korean kindergartners. Just wonderful. Emmeline, this is the same room […]

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Good coffee on a rainy day in Incheon. My friends have been fortunate enough to live in a building complex with a great little coffee shop, with a small roaster right in their space. It feels like home, and tastes like it, too.

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After meeting Derek at the airport, we took a bus through the pouring rain to the neighborhood where Derek and Ashley live and teach. A soggy Derek and I ate a late dinner at one of his favorite Korean barbeque places. These tables have a hole in the center where they put a metal pan […]

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Safely landed and looking for some Jenkinses. All the overhead announcements on the plane were in Japanese, English and then Korean, but it took me most of the flight to realize it. I wasn’t paying much attention, but it seemed like there was a lot more information going out in “the other language” than I […]

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Emmeline, not only do the people here in Japan use different words when they speak, they also use different letters when they write. See these letters?

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After a 12 hour flight, we’re starting the descent now. That is a lot of hours in a seat. Emmeline, each person has a little screen to watch movies or follow a little picture of the plane across a map of the world. Or onto a little map of Japan.

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this one is fragile. While on the runway, in the plane, I was trying to tweak the way the blog displayed (specifically how many posts it displayed per page) and I broke it. And because of the imminent departure, I didn’t have time to fix it. It’s not very broken, mind you, but a little […]

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Emmeline, as I’m writing this you are in bed in Sioux Falls and it’s dark outside–it’s the middle of the night where you and mommy and Sam are. But here in the plane, it’s lunch time and it’s light outside. When I get to Incheon, the city where Derek and Ashley live, it will be […]

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or thereabouts. I didn’t count all the feet.

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