Snow is a Cheat

For the last two years, the snow in Akita has begun on the first weekend in December. I have come to depend on this fact as fact and something to depend on. Not so this year. Everyone had been telling me that this autumn had been unusually warm, but that winter was supposed to bring …

Rakugo Culture

Every year my school partakes in some kind of cultural event. Last year it was visiting the Lake Tazawa drama troupe, which I didn’t get to see; the year before that was attending a performance by Malta, a saxophonist famous in the 80’s and 90’s, whom I did get to see. This year was a …