Field Trip Friday this week was a visit to the University of Guam. We didn’t do an official tour, just spent the morning walking around campus and visited the library. It is a small University with the campus covering about 160 acres with roughly 3500 students. The University offers 34 undergraduate degree programs and 11…
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Guam Museum and Talo’fo’fo Falls
Yesterday we had field trip Friday on Thursday and went to the Guam Museum. Debby joked that she was going as a chaperone. Our expectations for this museum were pretty low, as reviews said it was very small and there wasn’t much to see. We were pleasantly surprised and all really loved it! The man…
Currents of Memories and Waves of Learning
Braxton and I went for a walk on the beach today and he said “I feel like time is going so fast!” I couldn’t agree more. We recently passed the 4 month mark in our travels and some days it feels like we just left Colorado. We have a little less than a week of…
Field Trip Friday – Our Own Private Aquarium
Field Trip Friday yesterday was a simple trip back to the beach. The sun was shining and we had our first truly blue skies. We are nearing the end of the rainy season here, but it can still rain off and on pretty regularly. It’s amazing how sunny skies can change the appearance of the…
Groundhog Days in Osaka – A Library Visit and Fall Fun
This week has felt a bit like we are living the movie Groundhog Day. If you’ve never seen the 1993 movie staring Bill Murray this reference won’t make sense to you. Basically, Bill Murray’s character wakes up and relives the same day over and over – which happens to be Groundhog Day. It’s a great…
Unhurried in Osaka: Finding Joy in Small Bites and Backstreets
We are still on the mend, but have slowly started to explore Osaka. The area we are in feels vastly different than our neighborhood in Tokyo. At first glance it feels a little dingy and rundown. As we walk along the main street that runs through our neighborhood, there’s grafitti, people smoking/vaping in the open,…
Quarter Turn on a Year Long Journey
Today marks three months that we have been traveling, which means our year of adventure is a quarter of the way over. Three months of wandering, learning, and finding home in unexpected places. Time feels like it has simultaneously gone fast and slow. Time seems to speed up as we age because we have fewer…
Schools Around The World – Tokyo, Japan
The elementary school in our neighborhood in Tokyo is called Ryogoku Elementary School. It is about a 10 minute walk from our condo and we often see kids walking there in the mornings. It is typical for kids to go to their neighborhood school here, which I love. The school is similar in size to…
Water, Light, and Wonder: A Day at teamLab Planets
We had Field Trip Friday on Thursday this week and went to teamLab Planets. This is an immersive digital art museum and we had to get tickets in advance (they were sold out for Friday). This was a crazy sensory experience. It was weird, it was like nothing we had ever seen before, and it…
Field Trip Friday – Fail Turned Fun
Today didn’t go quite as we planned. For field trip Friday today we intended on visiting the Imperial Palace. This is the primary residence of the Imperial Family, and before going we read about the role of the emperor in Japan. Prior to WWII the emperor held political power, but today his role is purely…