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Black in Cairo: Egyptian Bureaucracy: The Hospital Edition

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Monday, August 16, 2010. Egyptian Bureaucracy: The Hospital Edition. I rescheduled my appointment for Saturday at 10 am and this time my roommate also scheduled an appointment for the same time. We arrive at 10 am only to be told that the doctor isn't in yet. The waiting areas is pretty deserted so we grab a seat and wait for the doctor. 10:30 The doctor is still not in. 11:30 The nurse checks our vitals.still no doctor. 12:00 Guess who shows up to work? Doctor: yes, why do you need this. We arrive at th...

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Geisha, Interrupted

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March 11, 2012. So what are you going to do tomorrow, at 2:46? My friend asks me soberly, yesterday morning. I don’t know yet, I say. I was only going to volunteer once in Tohoku, with kids in Fukushima for two weeks, but the people I met up there changed me, and I have traveled back and forth to the effected area over twenty times since.   In a lot of ways, this year has felt like a lifetime.  The experience has been immense. On March 11, 2012 at 11:23 PM. December 26, 2011. Santa Is Extremely Rich.

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Geisha, Interrupted: On The Road

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Laquo; Seduce This. At Last ». July 05, 2011. It`s not exactly the feel good youtube movie of the year, but this is still what it looks like.  The crazy part was that everyone on the bus kept talking about how much better and cleaner than before it all was. On July 05, 2011 at 09:55 AM. Japan tsunami kesennuma minami sanriku. You are putting a lot of effort in this. Hats off to you! July 06, 2011 at 11:04 AM. Posted by: Pamela July 09, 2011 at 12:44 AM. The comments to this entry are closed. Laments of t...

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Geisha, Interrupted: Tokyo, Interrupted

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Laquo; P.S. Playing Normal ». March 12, 2011. Disclaimer:  This is only one persons first-hand account of the earthquake and its aftermath in Tokyo. Other areas of the nation were hit much harder than the capital, and have suffered far greater misfortune.  For information on that story, please turn on the news. . I am not a journalist. Train operation has stopped because of an earthquake, the voice of the conductor says. . Umm, we know. I think to myself as the other passengers and I hold onto our seats.

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Geisha, Interrupted: On Resilience

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Laquo; Dumb and So Much Dumber. September 14, 2011. So here is a video I took last Sunday during a taiko performance at a festival held on a hill beside the rows of temporary housing in Koizumicho, Kesennuma.  You cannot see it from the position of the camera, but everything on all sides of this hill- basically the entire town, has been obliterated by the tsunami.  Six months on, there is still wreckage in every direction.  . Yet this town`s will to survive is unmistakable.  . Tokyo Room Finder Short Ess...

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Geisha, Interrupted: The Problem with Waterfront Property

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Laquo; And in the classifieds section. Dog or Baby: A National Dilemma ». September 08, 2007. The Problem with Waterfront Property. It will never cease to fascinate me, the way Mother Nature can violently blow the lid off of whatever happens to be any society's most coveted pretense. In the past couple of days, the Tokyo metro area got hit head-on by a typhoon. We call storm typhoon #9 because it is the ninth storm of the season (straightforward, isn't it? T and I will sometimes call tent cities that lin...

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Geisha, Interrupted: Really?

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Laquo; On Resilience. Another week, another montage. ». September 20, 2011. Yes, really.  Japanese people have actually taken to the streets en masse to protest something.  (And it isn`t even China! 0160;In my experience, you have to understand, the Japanese have not always been the rise-up-and-take-to-the-streets type of crowd.  So when a friend invited me to check out the anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo yesterday, I was sure there would be at least 2 or 3 other people there. Lord was I ever wrong. Attack o...

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Geisha, Interrupted: My Name Is Lea And I Am Addicted To Volunteer Work.

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Laquo; At Last. Dumb and So Much Dumber ». August 22, 2011. My Name Is Lea And I Am Addicted To Volunteer Work. I never would have imagined this site would turn into a sporadically updated volunteer blog, but hey, shit happens.     . Last weekend was spent in Kesennuma, the port town that rose to an unfortunate fame after being inundated by the tsunami in under seven minutes, then burning for four days straight afterwards. On August 22, 2011 at 01:42 PM. August 28, 2011 at 08:37 AM. Gratefully, joyfully,...

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Geisha, Interrupted: Santa Is Extremely Rich

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Laquo; Requiem for Setsuden. Volunteers Don't Cry ». December 26, 2011. Santa Is Extremely Rich. After spending the day volunteering, we are on our way to S’s friend’s house, for a Christmas dinner of sorts.  But here? 0160; In Watanoha, amidst all this? 0160; Then there, in the middle of the wreckage, stands something quite out of place: a house.  Its as if it shouldnt be there.  But there it is. . What is the matter, her mother asks. Santa is going to run out of money! Earlier in the day, she and her m...

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Geisha, Interrupted: Dog or Baby: A National Dilemma

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Laquo; The Problem with Waterfront Property. September 10, 2007. Dog or Baby: A National Dilemma. Perhaps not everybody sees a young women passing by with two poodles in a stroller and thinks: wow, that's revolutionary! But I do. As far as I am concerned, Tokyo's doggy boom,. Is nothing less than a quiet feminist revolution. But it is not working! Instead, Japanese women of my generation are getting puppies instead. Presently, there are even more dogs in Japan than there are children under ten. Some say ...