The Non Textbook-Case Woman on the 2015 Textbook
Have you ever noticed the moments when life expands and shrinks according to your behavior? We may not always realize it in the midst of it. But in hindsight, certain actions take us to completely unexpected, wonderful outcomes. This is one of those that have happened to me because of my bicycle tour across Japan. Among many people I met throughout my cycling journey of Japanese food, there were those who spoke the same language, and I don’t mean English or Japanese. John Rucynski, a New York native and an associate professor at Okayama University, was one of those. I met John whilst I was staying in Sapporo, Hokkaido, where he had also cycled for two weeks from his home for the charity of Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami disaster. At the same time, he was writing for an outdoor magazine in the US about cycling in Japan. Mind you, he’d cycled at a MUCH faster pace than my let’s-take-the-longest-time-possible tour, but how we were reporting on a theme of Japan, using the
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