I spent Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week at summer camp … English summer camp, in the airy heights of Mt. Akagi! 21 JETs, a dozen JTEs (Japanese Teachers of English), and 110 students (103 female, 7 male – boys, as a rule, don’t take to English) gathered at Akagi Youth House (motto: “Akagi Youth House is not a hotel” (no, really)) for three days of English-related games and fun. Well, games. This is my third time to do the camp, and Akagi gets less like a hotel and more like a correctional facility every year. The big thrill, as usual, was our bonfire … though this year it was more of a teeny cookfire. Still, the new JETs are a nice bunch, and the kids were fun. One of the Kirijo students looked and acted eerily like my friend Anna, who in turn is often told she looks like Shelley Duvall. I’m not sure what this means.

In any case, my commentary backlog for yukihime is large enough that I’m worried it will collapse inward on itself and form a black hole, which would likely demagnetize the hard drive I so recently restored. So I’m going to try to buckle down and write 10,000 words or so over the next few days; moreover, I’m going to be posting a lot of these updates as separately themed entries, so those of you who follow me via LiveJournal feed, consider yourself forewarned.